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Dynamic Components. SketchUp DC training examples. SketchUp tutorial. Animated Doors. Bi-folding doors.
Howard Leslie. Scott Lininger's simple game showcasing some of the fun things DCs can do.
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Got to have a smusher. Eric Schimelpfenig - Video of a snazzy way to control cabinet door style, size and placement -.
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Finding DCs in the 3D Warehouse. Add is:dynamic to the Search query. Go to Advanced Search and check Show only dynamic models. 'Drafting' General Tips. Some modeling methods based on classic drafting techniques. A nice trick to place dimensions in specific places is to switch to one of the orthographic views, take a section cut and pull out dimensions from the section cut. Save that view to a Scene, so you can return to that orientation for construction drawings.
Save the dimension text to a text Layer. That way the dimensions can be readily toggled off when they get in the way or you want to show an other dimension set. Setting up a diametric projection view.
wo3dan described how to dimension between two loose lines. Xxxx dead link. A few methods are discussed. Xxxx dead link. Some hidden line ideas. Wo3Dan's tutorial SKP on dimension text tips and more, like replacing the dimension value with if you edited the dimension and you want the dimension to return to the actual value.
On a Mac, for multi-lined, dimension text, use Ctrl+Enter to create a new line and where you want the dimension to appear in the text area. Wo3Dan - 'Tangent to Edge' can give you a wrong solution. Even though popup and magenta make you believe otherwise. SketchUpdate blog article. SketchUpdate blog article.
Jean Lemire - What to do when 'Flip along.' Choice is not available in the contextual menu. Jean Lemire.
Tutorial video on hiding dimensions and adding text. on the Sage. Shadow Studies Determine building height from Google Earth satellite images. Determine building height from images.
The energy analysis plugin has a tool to help calculate the effect of shadows from surrounding buildings. Depicting Shadows. Anssi goes over some internal SU settings in order to export only shadows. Another method is to paint the model with a completely transparent material.
Make a model with default colors. Paint only the faces you want to see, like the building footprint, a color. Make the model a group.
Paint the group with the completely transparent material. To turn off edges: toggle off Display edges and Profiles in the Styles palette, Window (SketchUp in Mac) Styles Edit Edges. A good internet site for finding time zones. Dynamic Components (DC).
Requires the plugin to see the component change orientation during an animation with scene changes. (Open a plain text file, on Windows use a text editor like Notepad, and paste in the text. Name the plugin scenes.rb and install in SketchUp's Plugins directory.). TIP:The code snippet for scene.rb needs to be added and saved in a plain text editor (like Notepad, Notepad Windows). Add the file to SketchUp's Plugin directory. Reload the program if SketchUp was already running. This plugin runs in the background, it will not be listed in any menu.
The main value of this plugin is if a scene animation video was created with SketchUp. TIP: A DC needs to be added to SketchUp without losing its outer component wrapper.
Try downloading the DC to the desktop then importing it into an active SketchUp workspace if there are any problems with the DC working as expected. To make this DC react to time/date changes, use the DC Interact tool. First make sure the DC extension is active. Go to Window Preferences Extensions and enable Dynamic Components. Select the DC in the workspace. Switch to the Interact tool through the DC toolbar (View Toolbars Dynamic Components or Tools Interact. Change the time/date through the Shadow Settings window or toolbar, then click on the DC with the Interact tool to update the component's position.
Also requires the plugin to react to scene changes. Plugins Note: To download plugins from SketchUcation, join the forum (free) and logon. Goh Chun Hee. Goh Chun Hee. qpik - raycasting plugin to add soft shadows.
Cythelia - An all in one solution for photovoltaic simulations. Bakbek - Set camera parameters using viewpoint, target, elevation. Kirill Bannov - Tests insolation duration and SVF (sky view factor) at any point. thomthom - Set faces in a selection to face the sun.
Integrated renderer which can perform realtime solar analysis. Daylight, sunlight and skylight modeling tool for building development. Jim Foltz - Plots sun position over a 24-hour period. Parametric urban design tool with a sun illumination simulation - pre-beta - Windows, Mac. Didier Bur - Exports camera information to an external file. Original forum.
honoluludesktop - Fine tune shadow position. Gabriel - Rotate either an object or a face to match the user's selected altitude and azimuth. Martin - A plugin. Abraham Yezioro and Tali Gutman - C alculates the (Geometrical) Shading Coefficient of any selected surface. Tomasz Janiak - Simple tool for analyzing daylight conditions. Demo, Fee - Windows, Mac.
TIG - Shows shadows cast on selected faces by objects and other shadow display options. Renderiza - Paints or textures all faces that are in shadows automatically. dfwlarch - Calculates amount of sunlight falling on faces. Insert solar panels on roofs quickly and find out tilt and azimuth. Windows.
Gabriel - A plugin that draws the sun path over the course of one day. Jim Foltz - Beta sun studies tool.
TransSolar - Open/save Trnsys3d file to work with TRNSYS 17 simulations. More relevant links on the SketchUp Sage's Resources page xx Sun path - Geo explains how to set the correct sun path in his. Original Group thread. Original Group thread.
Original Group thread. Didier Bur - Set the North angle without having model Geo-location - compatible with ALL version of SketchUp for Free/Make users.
Aerlius - It appears SketchUp does not render the north angle that is set per scene. This tool allows you to set the north angle per scene. In SketchUp Pro it uses SketchUp's fancy graphical North Tool to set the angle. SketchUp Team - Provides tools for you to set and display the solar north angle. SketchUp Pro required.
Fun facts. Plugins. Note: To download plugins from SketchUcation, join the forum (free) and logon. Barry Milliken - Tools for drawing Site Surveys in SketchUp. Fee. ThomThom - Suite of tools for working with imported map data to generate buildings and stepped terrains.
Fredo6 - After segmented lines have been welded into polylines (with Weld, Recurve, etc), this plugin will add curve control nodes. Chris Fullmer - Colors faces based on its slope. Chris Fullmer - Colors faces based on the face Z location (height). Didier Bur - Imports and exports points cloud. TIG - Import a CSV coordinates file with option to mark the locations with a guide point and text tag. thomthom - Suite of edge tools to help fix line work from imported CAD files.
Eneroth3. Eneroth3 - A Follow Me tool that will not twist on a 3D path with additional constrain options. wikii - A Follow Me tool that will not twist on a 3D path, good for making curbs on 3D terrain - among other nice things.
Guides. Sahi - Changes the color of guide lines. TIG - Tools to save Guide-Points and Guide-Lines from Deletion as Proxies. Matt666 - Draws cpoints. Didier Bur - Set of projection and guide tools. Aerilius - Track path with GPS Convert to KML in Google Earth Import KML path into SketchUp.
Aerilius - Imports and Exports KML files into SketchUp - bring almost any feature from Google Earth to SketchUp and back. tak2hata - Add grass/fur/hair/filaments to surfaces. Laserscanning plugin from Laserscanning Europe.
Work with large point cloud models. Bentley discontinued SketchUp plugin in January 31, 2013, yet new alliance with Trimble.
Didier Bur, C. Fale - Creates triangles starting from a construction points selection. Use after importing points from.
Sam D Mitch. Sam D Mitch - Adds a skirt around a Google Earth snapshot or similar terrain mesh patch. Sam D Mitch. Sam D Mitch - Draws lines between selected guide points, like from an imported point cloud. Sam D Mitch - Imports point data from a CSV file.
Sam D Mitch - Bundles several terrain tools into one plugin. SketchUp - Makes topo lines, contour lines, less complex to be easier to use in SketchUp. Didier Bur - Tool to quickly rebuild a TRN (triangular regular network) based on a TIN (triangular irregular network).
Fredo6 - Creates terrains from iso-contours. SketchUp Sage Cotty's (image to the right). Recommended companion plugins.
Matt666 - Draws cpoints. ThomThom - Collection of tools based on raytracing - drop, rayspray, grow component to construction points.
Trimble Field Solutions - Create Points and send them to Trimble Field Link. Smustard - Welds connected edges into a polyline.
Diggory Blake - Welds connected edges into a polyline. Landscaping. Daniel Tal - Book. SUWiki tutorial.
Plugins. 3DArcStudio - Creates trees and plants. Makes 3D tree, plant and grass components.
renderiza - Paint group and components in spray type manner. Chris Fullmer - Quickly populate a model with components. Fee. Chris Fullmer - Scales and rotates components and groups. Didier Bur - Spray out components for landscaping. LandF/X - A landscape architectural add-on to create planting and site plans from AutoCAD plans.
Free. tak2hata - Generates grass, crowds, fur, etc. ThomThom - Collections of tools based on raytracing - drop, rayspray, grow component to construction points. Render Plus - Tree generator plugin which will creates 3D vegetation and proxies for rendering. Free - Windows. jimimy-billy-bob - Scattering extension to render hundreds of thousands of objects.
Pierreden - Ivy generator. Vegetation Models. 3D Warehouse models. 3D Warehouse models. Helical forms - spirals, screw threads and more.
Hand-stitched methods. Tyson - While not giving mathematically correct results, it's still a neat modeling technique.
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TaffGoch. Tutorial based on Jean Lemire's handstitched method - Gully Foyle. Mix of Hand-stitched and plugin-aided helical modeling.
Half-round spiral handrail. Jean (Johnny) Lemire, Bruce Walker and catamountain (plugin aided tutorials). Plugin-aided helical modeling.
Constructing cylindrical and tapered helical models with script generated helices - a Scale about Center and Move tool exercise found on the Tweaking Tool Tips. Page - catamountain.
Scripted-based method for a spiraled, square handrail- catamountain. Gully Foyle. Gully Foyle.
K. Kruch - Most recent version of the ktools.rb script which added a screwing feature. Gully Foyle - Showcases a good mix of modeling methods - hand-stitched to script-aided. xxx dead link. Old plugin that most likely needs updating.
TIG - Original forum xxx dead link, version 2.0 is posted toward the end of the thread. wikii - Rotates and tapers along a path. Helix plugins. jimhami42 - Create high-poly threads suitable for printing with the plugin Spirix. Fredo6 - One of the bezier curves is the Courbette spiral. Sam D Mitch - Add nut and bolt details. Terry - Plugins for spirals, helices, curved and tapered shapes as seen in ornamental ironwork.
Jim Foltz - Draws a cylindical helix or taper helix. Rick - Draws spiral threads with tapered section (if needed) for making screw and bolt threads. Eneroth3 - Move all vertices inside selected group/component by letting the old X represent a radius and old Y an angle.
Useful for creating spiral shapes. Jay Watson - Produces Printable Nuts, Bolts, Screws and Tapped or threaded Holes for 3D parts. sdmitch - Create a helix around a path. Fredo6 - The Box Twisting tool will create helices. Free.
Fredo6 - A suite of tools. One of the tools, CurviShear, will produce helices. Free. 3dalbertsoft - Plugin. sdmitch - Draws a helix around a surface. Rick Wilson - Draws a helix around any selected face. regularpolygon - spherical helix plugin.
ShapeWizards - Parametric shapes. Free version on Extension Warehouse. TDB - Screw a set of edges around the z-axis. regularpolygon - Archimedean spherical spiral. Jim Hamilton - Revolve or extrude any 3D sequence of edges along the z-axis.
John McClenahan - Drawing shapes based on circles, polygons, or helix. Skinning/lofting and extruding along helical path(s). Online SLT gear generator by 3DDoctors.net. Free and donationware.
Clocks. Gary Mahony - Engineering wooden clock gears - patterns - AND great practical advice on engineering gears in general. Artsy 'clock' pieces with lots of gears to admire and inspire. From both an artistic and engineering perspective, this fella's work is fantastic! Many of the pieces have a mouse-over button or video to show the animation.
German English. Wooden clock router accessories.
(Woodline sells router bits cheaper than most retail outlets.). Article on dimensioning parts for wooden peg gears. Capolight Electronics Project - Guide for designing gears for 3D printing. SketchUp Pro can import DXF files that many of the linked sites in this section offer, but the free-crowd would need an import plugin. Spur gear generator.
Free. DXF, CNC output. Wide variety of gears.
Fee. TaffGoch - 3D Warehouse model for inspiration. Free online gear generator creates several different types of gears, animates two gears and exports a vector (several conversion steps for SketchUp to import. Inkscape can convert a vector PDF to DXF.
The DXF file can then be imported). Program exports SKP, Fee. Resources for using SketchUp with 3D printers and CNCs. Check out the new STL exporter from the SketchUp developers to help streamline the 3D printing process.
Online, involute spur gear calculator. Exports DXF files. Doug Herrrmann and Jim Hamilton - Involute gear generator, with and without a key slot. Jim's of his 3D printed gear train using an early version of this plugin. Free. Dan Rathbun - Plugin to make hypocycloid cams for cycloid reduction drives.
Free. Cadalog - First SketchUp gear plugin. Idea: Use the resulting gears as a template for other gear shapes. Free. Jim Hamilton - Plugin for rack and pinion. Free. Animation, numerical simulation plugin for virtual prototyping gear function, etc., includes transformation processor, keyframe editor, exportation options, and bullet (physics engine.) Windows - Fee.
jgrundman - SketchUp plugin to create spur, helical, bevel, and beveled helical gears with involute tooth profiles. YouTube video. catamountain - Extruding a human leg from a circle.
How-to layout and make a faucet handle. Egg-shaped seat back. A SketchUcation sub-forum.
Extruding a rocky face with Push/Pull and a few other SketchUp friends. Making architectural structures look craggy, rocky and aged. Look for the tutorial in the thread. Takuji Hagihara - two human posing rigs., the Pro group for her beautiful human models. Xxx dead link. monsterz3rO blog with some figurative SketchUp work.
tutorials. mattscar - This module makes it possible to create and animate bones (essentially components) within a skeletal hierarchy.
(Quite dated. It needs an update to run in the latest version of SketchUp.). listed on the 3D Warehouse. SketchUp car tutorial website, several tutorial videos, forum. YouTube video.
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Alan Fraser - General approach xxx dead link. Marian. Video from RogueAutomotive. Setting up elevation images as modeling templates for a YF-19 fighter jet - catamountain. TaffGoch. ixlrlxi Concept 'transportation.' Tutorial toward the thread bottom.
An autobody plug-in by antantantant. silvershadow - U.S. Army helicopter. silvershadow - British warship. YouTube video. Elisei Jurubita - First of 3 pdf modeling 'books'. Fee.
Using elevations, create an initial autobody mesh with the plugin:., xxx dead link. Note: the Hidden center component seam in the SU5 file 'Front end with SSB' may be visible in SU6. Using Erase+Shift is one way to hide the 'seam' between the adjoining, mirrored components.
ThomThom - Create bezier surface with bezier patches. Beta.
' Serge Ferrari Architecture - Tensile structure forming - more options than Soap, Skin & Bubble. Sam D Mitch - Creates a regular triangulated network on a selected face.
Jacob Samuel has several bezier surface manipulation extensions on the. Tips.
With so many body style options only limited by the imagination, take advantage of making custom, component. For example, with a car, model a body half to a good stopping point. Make it a component and drag that component into a custom library. That way, when you want to make a new - but similar - car body style, bring in that original component body and rework it. It saves a lot of time by eliminating the initial modeling set-up steps. To rework the same component in the same file, right-click the component and select Make Unique. Scroll down a bit for a list of useful plugins.
Plugins Note: To download plugins from SketchUcation, join the forum (free) and logon. thomthom - Automatically softens and smooths autofolded edges created by the native tools. Fredo6 - Bezier curve plug-in on steriods. thomthom - WIP. thomthom - Generates a mesh from a given BMP image. Free. kirill2008 - A lofting tool.
Boolean tools. Whaat - Boolean tools for the free crowd and pre-SketchUp 7 Pro. Fee. oscarlok - Boolean tools for the free crowd.
Jim Foltz - Trim a Component and have all instances update as well. SketchUp Pro-only plugin. thomthom - Many model cleaning options. kirill2008 - Adds control construction points to curves and groups with faces for 3D model manipulation. Fredo6 - Loft and skinning. TIG - Extrudes a faced-mesh group along various polyline rail-curves.
Ferrari Architecture - Tensile forming - More options than Soap Skin & Bubble. The plugin used to be available on the website. Fredo6 - Scaling on steroids.
Fredo6 - Multiple selection of lines. Fredo6 - 3D Push/Pull tool. tak2hata - Adds hair, fur. BTM - Merges multiple edges. Didier - Projection/extrusion tools.
Fredo6 - Makes fillets/chamfers. BTM - Suite of sculpting tools. Chris Fullmer - Bends a model to a curved path. Chris Fullmer - A alpha version loft script. Guitar List. Free.
Matt Scarpino - Creates animated bones (essentially components) within a skeletal hierarchy for 3D people. These bones are animated with keyframes that define the local axis and duration of each rotation. Anton Synytsia, Chris Phillips original code site and. (Anton Synytsia took over development from Chris Phillips.). Cadman, Inc - Embed snap connection points within a group or component to align assemblies. Fee. kirill2008 - deforms groups to match a sculpted, mesh surface.
Graduated, organic shaping / Tensile Structure / Bezier Surface / Quad Subdivision. Dale Martens - Subdivision modeling with additional sculpting and soft transformation tools. Fee.
ThomThom - Create bezier surface with bezier patches. Beta. Enerroth3 - Nice way to break up surface into a more organic form. Free.
Serge Ferrari Architecture - Tensile structure forming - more options than Soap, Skin & Bubble. At the Ruby Library Depot. Sam D Mitch - Creates a regular triangulated network on a selected face. Jacob Samuel has several bezier surface manipulation extensions on the. Fee. Chris Philips, (TIG updated) - Deforms a model. A by gbabcock.
from the Sandbox tools extension that comes with SketchUp. Josef Leibinger - Tensile Structure. Donationware - to keep the plugin around, donate. With lots of tutorials. Xxx dead link.
ThomThom - Subdividing model mesh with the ability to weight an edge for controlled creasing. Fee - Windows, Mac. Smustard - Apply a Catmull-Clark subdivision to selected surfaces. Free. Dale Martens - Organic modeling toolset with a Push/Pull-like workflow. Precursor to.
Fee - Windows, Mac. thomthom - It makes parametric teapots. But more seriously, the plugin is an investigation of bezier meshes. TIG - Newer version of Triangulate Quad Faces. ThomThom - Selection tools for organic modeling. Fee.
Fredo6 - Toolset to draw shapes on proxy models to help influence how Artisan will subdivide. Free-form 3D modeling softwares - Fee - Windows. Fredo6 - Support drawing shapes/offsets on top of 3D mesh surfaces. TIG - Newer version of Triangulate Quad Faces. ThomThom - Selection tools for organic modeling. Bending stuff - along a 2D path. Tutorial.
For the tutorial, see Jean Lemire posted file on 'manually' bending a detailed, dimensional component. From suggestion in Jean's bending tutorial above, position intersecting planes by making a with the Move tool. Plugins. Whaat - Slices a model - replaces the need to setup intersecting planes in Jean's tutorial model. Fredo - Draws profiles on a curved surface.
Extensions and plugins that now bend existing models. Chris Fullmer - Bends models to a curved path (doesn't like wrapping cylinders though.). Fredo - Some bending operations. Woodsy Stuff. Tutorial on the changing crown proportional when it goes up a raked eave. Also useful for some classical cabinetmakers. Tutorials on modeling a compound curve in a manner similar to how compound curves can be fabricated in wood.
Xxxx dead link. Desk with tapered, rope legs xxx dead link. Several methods to make a cabriole leg. There are a few more cabriole threads if you search the Pro group. SketchUcation thread with many classic moulding profiles for a component collection. Join forum and logon to download.
Eric Schimelpfenig - Video of a snazzy way to control cabinet door style, size and placement. Woodsy SketchUp Sites.
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Woodworking blog. Cabinetmaking. Online cut optimization. Fine Woodworking's SketchUp Blog featuring articles by Dave Richards.
Eric Schimelpfenig blog geared toward kitchen design. Rob Cameron video tutorial collection. Tutorials.
SketchUcation's woodworking forum. Plugins Note: To download plugins from SketchUcation, join the forum (free)and logon. Paul Verhelst - Readies cabinet models for production and processing with CNC, CutList Plus and SimLab. Fee. Cutlists. Jack S. Nesting, graphical cutlists and material cost estimating.
Pro version too. Version 5 began importing SKP files.
Fee - Windows. CaptPanic, Vendmr - The original version of CutList as it first appeared. New updates by Steve Racz. Steve Racz - The latest incarnation of this popular woodworker's tool. Wiki page has tutorial links. Joe Zeh - Plugin to export SketchUp data to the program and shreadsheets. ishboo - Original code based on CutList, currently developed by Steve Racz, but with different features.
Graphical cutlisting. Cabinetry design, material list, cutlist and CNC applications and sends rendering data to SketchUp.
Fee. Pilou - Create exploded parts. Todd Burch - Creates exploded parts. Garry K - Cabinets. Garry K - Style and rail cabinet door plugin.
Free, Fee. ktkoh - A joint set.
thomthom - Creates dog-bone fillets at corners of faces. ktkoh - An earlier version of K2WSTools. Links to video tutorials. Whaat - Follow Me on steriods - quick-change profiles.
Fee,. TIG - Adding edges at molding joints after extruding a Follow Me molding profile. jhoutman - Quickly add parts and pieces common to woodworking projects. Woodworking plugins and tools for SketchUp.