We’ve had some excellent entries sent our way for this Sketchup Pro 2018 competition, and the competition is now closed! If you have entered, you’re in the running to win: £100 in vouchers and a 3D Connexion SpaceMouse Pro worth £279! Your work featured on the Official SketchUp UK social media pages (run by distributor Elmtec) and on CAD … Read more
SketchUp Viewer for smartphones and tablets is now free to use. Explore and communicate in 3D with everyone, everywhere. SketchUp Viewer for Mobile Orbit anywhere Open models from 3D Warehouse, Trimble Connect or other online storage apps. Then orbit, pan, and zoom using the free SketchUp Viewer app. Select from preset Scenes to quickly hop … Read more
We’ve had some excellent entries sent our way for this Sketchup Pro 2018 competition, and time is running out! We want you to design your perfect getaway with SketchUp. It could be a cosy cottage in the Cotswolds, a luxury villa in the Mediterranean, or maybe a chalet in the Alps. What’s your idea of a perfect … Read more
Thea for SketchUp is a state-of-the-art Biased, Unbiased and GPU renderer with a rich set of innovative features, a powerful material system and its own advanced studio, all-in-one. Thea Render comes with high quality materials, resources exclusively for licensed users, integration with various modelers, a robust SDK and advanced features such as Photometric Analysis, Colimo Support and many more. The plugin is a fully integrated rendering environment that enables photorealistic and … Read more
There’s still time to enter our SketchUp 3D Design Challenge! Design your perfect getaway with SketchUp. A luxury villa in the Mediterranean? A chalet in the Alps, or a cosy cottage in the Cotswolds? We want you to model it in SketchUp! Simply email your entry to sketchup@cadsoftwaredirect.com to be in with a chance of winning. … Read more
What is the Competition? What’s your idea of a perfect getaway? A luxury villa in the Mediterranean? A chalet in the Alps, or a cosy cottage in the Cotswolds? We want you to model it in SketchUp! What We Want We want you to model your vision of a perfect luxury bolthole or place to … Read more
SketchUp are bringing 3D modelling challenges to their community! For this first challenge, SketchUp are asking you to think warm, beachy thoughts. Use this model678 as inspiration or as the setting to build your dream beach house, treehouse, or even tiki hut. Feel free to get as creative as you want. The competition is based on both … Read more
A longtime member of the SketchUp community, Fred Bartels is an educator, builder, artist, and maker. Influenced by Seymour Papert and other education visionaries, Bartels saw a promising future for SketchUp in the classroom. Seventeen years after first introducing SketchUp to his students, Bartels continues to push the boundaries of SketchUp and he’s hopeful that … Read more
PlusSpec will be demonstrating a bunch of different things that you can do with PlusSpec for SketchUp that you may not even know you can do! In this webinar: Creating smart hatching/fills Sharing your Material Library with other users Accessing the new Public Material Library Projecting roof outlines for 2D plans Using the Purge tool … Read more
In this webinar, PlusSpec will be discussing Decks and Handrails. Topic: How to easily create and quantify a deck, including some of the common deck types, such as: flat, raised and multi-level. How to customize the structure and finishes, as well as how to add different kinds of handrails/balustrades. Q&A This webinar is suitable for … Read more