Some useful links found via pushpullbar for sketchup related websites for your reference here.
::Five Most Recent Entries::
Ruby Scripts - The SCF Power Toolbar at Quarr-IT One of most well-thought toolbars for SketchUp. Go to "Ruby" section and don't forget to watch "Tutorials".
Blog - Ronen Bekerman A pushpullbar veteran bakbek's blog is about SketchUP, 3d Studio Max, V-Ray, Maxwell Render, Fryrender, Photoshop and more.
Forum - Land8 Land8 is landscape architects' premier social network. Although it is not specifically SU-related website, there are full of SU in it.
::Forums and UserGroups::
The following groups have closed but will be available for archival review
Google SketchUp Sage A user-created companion source to many frequently asked questions from Google SketchUp Groups and beyond.
Learn to Program A Place to Start for the Future Ruby Programmer. In Japanese, French, Russian, Danish and Portuguese.
SketchUp Artists NEW! The name says it all. Lots of tutorials on image creation.
SUWiki Another important resource of information run by Chris Fullmer aka clf23, a ppb member.
::Rendering and Animation::
3DPaintBrush 3DPaintBrush provides near photo-realistic rendering in real time, with no learning curve and zero programming skills. (PC)
Cheetah 3D Powerful 3D modelling, rendering and animation solution (Mac)
Deep Exploration Standard Convert, render, animate and publish .skp files to 40 different 3D formats including .3ds, .obj, .u3d, Flash, HTML, etc. (PC)
HyperShot Photo-realistic images in stunningly simple interface. (PC)
iClone is a film studio that lives in your HDD. iClone is used for pre-visualization for live action work and as a standalone animation package. With 3DXchange utility, you can combine iClone with SketchUp models.
YouTube Video.
IDX Renditioner Photorealistic rendering that’s easy enough for novices, powerful enough for professionals. (Mac + PC)
Indigo Renderer A physically-based, unbiased render engine. SkIndigo is an exporter for SU. Tutorials here. (PC)
Kerkythea "Simply Powerful (and free!)" (Mac + PC)
LightUP LightUp is a SketchUp plugin that adds realistic, realtime lighting to your sketchup models (Mac + PC)
Maxwell Render A physically correct, unbiased rendering engine (Mac + PC + Linux)
modo 3D modeling, painting, rendering and animation in a single integrated package (Mac + PC)
Photoshop For some people, SketchUp and Photoshop (or GIMP) are all they need to render. Examples:
1 2 3 (Mac + PC)
SU Animate SU Animate works inside SU and creates scenes that you can play as an animation in SU or export to an AVI or MOV. (Mac + PC)
SU Podium Photo-realistic rendering for SketchUp by a single click (Mac + PC)
POV-Ray The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free renderer. There is
SU2POV, a SU exporter. (Mac + PC + Linux)
Thea Render NEW! a new physically-based renderer with the unique ability of producing both biased and unbiased photorealistic renders (Mac + PC)
Twilight Render NEW! it's now possible to render photo-realistic images inside Google SketchUp! (PC)
Vue6 Offers solutions for the creation, animation and rendering of natural 3D environments.
SOLO’s place has some good examples. (Mac + PC)
::Components and Materials::
Cadyou a free resource for digital designers that work with 2d and 3d models in architecture, engineering, interior design, game design and more.
Digital Nursery Tree images and components, palm trees, 3D landscape images.
Entourage Arts Non Photorealistic Entourage Elements for architects. (Mac + PC)
Engineering ToolBox provides a tool for layout planning and design of techical applications. Easily creates flange beams, hollow sections, piping bends and elbows.
::Notable Extensions and Ruby Repositories::
Extensions and Tools
1001bit tools NEW! is a collection of Ruby scripts that are dedicated for architectural works. It create 3d models of staircases, spiral staircase, escalators, walls, doors and windows, and self-generated roof rafters. The toolset has very sophisticated UI, but no toolbar.
CADspan Plugin allows generation of solid, 3D printable STL files directly from a SketchUp model. The plugin provides several tools to ease the process of preparing a model for 3D printing:
DoubleCAD If you are a Google SketchUp user wanting to go from concept-to-construction drawings, DoubleCAD XT is an invaluable companion to SketchUp and AutoCAD LT, too. (PC)
HouseBuilder Tools and classes to support building a house. (Mac + PC)
Moment of Inspiration MoI is a complementary NURBS tool for a polygon-based CAD like SU. Its SU export generates clean N-Gon polygon meshes from NURBS models. (PC)
Synchro Project Constructor is specifically designed to work with SketchUp models. It's a scheduling tool for visualizing how construction phases will occur. (PC)
Tensile Structures A tool collection for the Design of mechanical and pneumatically strained surfaces.
Waybe Unfolds Google SketchUp models into papercrafts. Demo video on
YouTube (Mac + PC)
::Exporters + Importers::
eDrawings generates a self-executable file out of SKP. The .exe file contains the viewer as well as the design data. You can also convert it to HTML format and the models can be viewed in the browser. (PC)
EnergyPlus plugin The plugin allows you to launch EnergyPlus simulations and view the results without leaving SketchUp. (PC)
IES plugin toolbar Enables Environmental Performance Analysis directly from SketchUp Model (PC)
IFC2SKP Beta The plugin lets SU to load IFC data from popular BIM apps such as ArchiCAD, Revit and Microstation. (PC)
SYCODE Plugins SketchUp data exchange plug-ins that cover 3DM, 3DS, DWG, DXF, IGES, OBJ, STEP, STL, VTK. SYCODE also released SKP file import and export plug-ins for a variety of CAD software - Adobe Acrobat, Alibre Design, AutoCAD, IntelliCAD, Inventor, IRONCAD, INOVATE, Solid Edge, SolidWorks and SpaceClaim.
WalkAbout3d(Beta) WalkAbout3d allows SketchUp users to explore their designs as a full screen real-time walkthrough - all at the press of a button. WalkAbout3d has anaglyph stereoscopic support as standard.
YouTube videos Simmetry 3d Symmetry3D is an enhanced version of WalkAbout3d, and it will allow you to work with 3D terrain, load multiple 3D models, and create animations/simulations.
YouTube videos
::Ruby Repositories::
OhYeahCAD Free Software Download Worth a visit.
::Blogs, Forums and Miscellaneous::
Ronen Bekerman A pushpullbar veteran bakbek's blog is about SketchUP, 3d Studio Max, V-Ray, Maxwell Render, Fryrender, Photoshop and more.
Land8 NEW! Land8 is landscape architects' premier social network. Although it is not specifically SU-related website, there are full of SU in it.
John Bacus Interview @Architosh John Bacus, Google’s SketchUp Product Manager, talks about new SketchUp 7 (+Pro 7) and why they didn't go for multi-threading.
GraphicConverter An image browser that converts almost any image file format. Skp preview support added to ver.6.2. (Mac)
XnView XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter. A good company with SketchUp. (PC)
Google Earth What? You need an explanation for Google Earth?
Design. Click. Build. Learn the art and science of designing furniture in SketchUp, by Dave Richards and Tim Killen.
Swamp Road Wood Working A blog by Joe Zeh, a cabinetmaker in Massachusetts. There are some SU tutorials and knowledgeable posts on SU and CutList.
Viz.arch A blog by ppb member Tim Danaher. SketchUp in its extreme.
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