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Our good friend Matt Donley from MasterSketchUp.com is soon to release his much anticipated SketchUp to LayOut ebook. We have had a sneak peak at his new book and we can honestly say that it is a winner! If you are interested in his Free Webinar on the 30th of January just follow the link below.

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Available as a free upgrade for all LumenRT 4 users, this update adds improved export capabilities for all LumenRT supported platforms including CityEngine, MicroStation, Revit, and Sketchup. LumenRT 4 Studio is the most comprehensive system for transforming 3D models and designs into rich, nature-filled videos, images and real-time immersive experiences. Developed by the leading provider of natural scenery technology for the CG and movie industry, e-on software's LumenRT 4 Studio delivers breathtaking realism, superior performance and ground-breaking ease of use.

Thea Render 1.3 'Presto Square' is now available with some exciting new features along with substantial improvements for the Presto engine.

Presto Square now runs on both GPU and CPU simultaneously, unleashing the full potential of your computer. Render times have being slashed utilizing this new technology.

After an extending period of adjudication we are pleased to announce the 3 lucky winners of the Christmas SketchUp modeling competition. Thanks to everyone that entered your submissions were great!

The new release of Tekla BIMsight, the free software tool for building information modeling (BIM) project collaboration has implemented further integration with SketchUp.

This release allows direct import of .skp files along with .iges and .step.

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An entire year has passed since Revizto was introduced at 2012 Autodesk University. Now, at the 2013 AU, Revzto 2.0 was introduced. Most of the improvements came from feedback from users who work on large, complex projects, and they emphasized the need to be able to collaborate across different locations, especially using iPads. This wasn’t always easy before, and to address this need developers have greatly increased Revizto’s Editor and Viewer performance.

It's competition time so get your Christmas thinking caps on! There's some great prizes on offer for the 3 lucky winners.

The theme of the competition is 'Christmas' so we will leave the rest up to your imagination!

Read on to see what's on offer and how to enter.

Congratulations to the lucky winners in our monthly 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Prize Draw. The winning raffle numbers were 7985 and 1251.

Winners will be contacted via email to organise delivery./

The December draw will commence 14th December.

To enter the monthly raffle you must be a Premium member.

There's no better way to start the week than to give our wonderful members a new toy to play with. Over the years we have seen requests for Facebook like buttons, G+, Twitter etc., but these come with page load disadvantages. No one likes a slow loading site!

Instead, we went ahead and developed our own little voting addon for the forums. Now you can like or dislike any post you wish. Voting for popular posts means you'll improve the user experience for everyone!

This is the first step in a long journey to reveal something very special in the new year. But first we need YOUR help.

Bonnie Roskes has just added SketchUp 2013 Hands On: LayOut eBook to the SketchUcation Shop. With over 183 pages of excellently delivered and illustrated exercises there's no better time to dive into LayOut!