An Intermediate Google SketchUp Tutorial

An Intermediate Google SketchUp Tutorial. In this installment of “An Intermediate Google SketchUp Tutorial” we are going to learn how to model bracket ogee feet. The 3d tutorial document here required a new and complex techniques. The goal of this sketchup tutorial is how accurately we reproduce these feet than learning the technique, or procedure. Using the Cubic Bezier Curve tool to draw the curves (it takes a good deal of experience), which y…

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The Dennis Technique for SketchUp Models in Photoshop

The Dennis Technique for SketchUp Models in Photoshop. The big concept is to put a Black & White drawing over a coloured one and then artistically erase just enough of the top Black and White so that essential parts of the drawing are accented with colour. It is easy to line up the layers in Photoshop if they are rendered with the same resolution from the same position with the same camera lens. When you are exporting your images from Googl…

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SketchUp Renders with Kerkythea

– all of these integrate nicely into SketchUp and offer “one-click” rendering), I suggest you take a look at the freeware Kerkythea. For completeness, it should be mentioned that there are also the free renderers (with export plugins) Indigo and POVRAY, but I (currently) prefer Kerkythea due to its great user interface, fast and great results as well as multiprocessor support. Kerkythea installs as a separate program and SketchUp models are conve…

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Interactive 3D Visualization of Building Envelope Systems Using Infrared Thermography and Sketch Up

…able than a more abstract 2D representation (like a floor plan or an image). A method will be presented to apply IR images to simplified exterior and interior models of a building using the freely available 3D modeler Google SketchUp. A variety of common application scenarios will be presented and examples for these will be shown. In addition, the viability of exploring the 3D model interactively and on the web will be discussed. Download Inter…

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V-Ray for SketchUp

When rendering an image with any rendering program, including VRay for SketchUp, you must understand three main factors that will affect the image: Lighting, Materials, and Mapping. Lighting plays the most important role among these three. It will affect the color, shadow, reflection and refraction among every single object in the scene. VRay for SketchUp is a rendering engine equipped with Global Illumination (GI), which helps the users setup t…

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