Layout SketchUp Tutorial Workflow

Layout SketchUp Tutorial Workflow for Architecture consruction documents.

01 Layout SketchUp Tutorial, Construction Documents : Designing in SketchUp.

How to design using SketchUp with the goal of creating construction documents in LayOut in mind. start with a quick sketch on the ground then create a complete 3D design organized with groups.




Rendering in SketchUp: From Modeling to Presentation for Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Design



Rendering in SketchUp: From Modeling to Presentation for Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Design
The sure way for design professionals to learn SketchUp modeling and rendering techniques Rendering In SketchUp provides instructions for creating 3D photoreal graphics for SketchUp models using integrated rendering programs. The book serves as a beginner rendering manual and reference guide to further develop rendering skills. With an emphasis on step-by-step process, SketchUp users learn a universal approach to rendering varied SketchUp projects, including architecture, interiors, and site design models.

Thea Render Sketchup Plugin


Thea Render Sketchup Plugin, is a combination of powerful rendering engines of Thea Render Sketchup Plugin with the simplicity of SketchUp. Having biased, unbiased and interactive render modes (GPU support soon-to-be-available as well) at your fingertips, inside SketchUp, is an joyful experience. thea render sketchup plugin lets you enrich your models with highly detailed three dimensional content, breaking old limitations related to handled model complexity.

Thea Render for Sketchup Plugin




Car for Sketchup

Free download Sketchup Components - Car for Sketchup: Audi, BMW, Honda, Jaguar, Lambroghini, Mercedes Benz, Mitshubishi, Peugeot, Rolls Royce, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo.





Free download Car for Sketchup

Lightup for Sketchup

Lightup for Sketchup - gives the ability to have realtime walkthrough and flythough of your fully lit model, all running inside the SketchUp window. Simply place light sources in your Sketchup model switch to Touring mode and you can explore how your model looks from any angle. Change the time of year / time of day to perform shadow analysis using the advanced Rayleigh sunlight model.

While Touring your model, you can create instant High Resolution Stills from the current viewpoint so you can iterate quicky through a whole range of ideas. Resolution of Stills is only limited by available memory - presets for common 300dpi page sizes are available as well as standard 1920x1080, 3840x2160 sizes. All of these can optionally produce the accompanying floating point depth maps to allow further post processing.

Adding light sources to your model is quick and simple and requires just placing a SketchUp Component at the position you want a light source and editing its lighting properties. Entering a Lumen value for your light source gets you started in seconds. Adding an IES luminaire definition file (available online from most manufacturers), allows you to evaluate lighting using real fittings. IES Type A, B and C light types are supported in LightUp making it ideal for both interior and exterior lighting design. Tools for orienting/targetting entire groups of lights make light rigging super quick as does the ability of LightUp to filter all light sources through any gobo or indeed any non-opaque materials the light passes through.

Free download Lightup for Sketchup.




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