Landscape Architecture. The major new feature in the newest version of LayOut in SketchUp Pro 2013 is Pattern Fill. It lets you fill any shape in your document with a pattern. LayOut ships with a library of patterns to get you started, but creating and adding your own is possible, too. This post is a tutorial on how to do just that. The Basics Patterns are made up of image tiles. There’s nothing magical about image tiles in LayOut; they’re just JPG, TIF, GIF or PNG images. To add a pattern to LayOut, all you have to do is choose Import Custom Pattern... from the drop-down menu in the Pattern Fill panel. How does LayOut decide how big to draw each individual tile in the pattern? Consider an image which is 1200 pixels wide by 600 pixels high. Example: A simple geometric pattern Let's make a pattern that looks like the one in the image above. 1) It has only one basic unit. 2) It isn’t trying to look “random”. 3) It has no horizontal or vertical lines at its edges.
Step 2: Outline a single tile with a rectangle. Introducing Maxwell for Google SketchUp. Among rendering die-hards, the name “Maxwell” has long been synonymous with jaw-dropping realism. Maxwell Render’s makers have offered a SketchUp-to-Maxwell solution for a few years, but it required modelers to have access to Maxwell Render Suite—the full, standalone version. For SketchUppers on a budget (or who only need to make the occasional rendering), this wasn’t an ideal arrangement. A delicious Maxwell render by Rune Skjøldberg. To accommodate more people, the folks behind Maxwell have just released something they’re calling Maxwell for Google SketchUp. It’s a dedicated photo-renderer, based on the venerable Maxwell rendering engine, that operates entirely inside of SketchUp. Cross-platform. As you can see in this straightforward feature matrix, the free version allows you to render in Draft mode and limits your resulting image to a resolution of 800 pixels.
Another render by Rune Skjøldberg showcasing multiple light sources. SITEOPS: Conceptual design for land development. Back in architecture school, I once had to lay out a parking lot for a building I was designing. What a terrible, terrible exercise in nitpicky details and perpetual re-arrangement. The solution I came up with accommodated all of four Smart cars and a unicycle. Awful. If only I’d had access to a tool like SITEOPS from BLUERIDGE Analytics. SITEOPS is conceptual land development software for folks like architects, civil engineers, landscape architects and land developers. After you’ve brought in a site, you can combine building footprints with critical elements like parking, islands and driveways. Want to see what a parking layout might look like if your building were on the other side of the site?
Realizing that lots of their users are also SketchUp devotees, the good people at BLUERIDGE have added an Export to SketchUp button to their product. This is a view of a 2D site layout in SITEOPS. A 3D image of the same site in SITEOPS' Grading and Piping Module. Making your models more useful with Trelligence Affinity. Some architects begin new projects by creating a “bubble diagram” that turns the program — the list of space requirements for a building—into a set of shapes. Mostly, these diagrams are useful for figuring out adjacencies and loose spatial relationships. They’re really about translating information in spreadsheets into something that can begin to inform decisions about space, form, structure and all the other good stuff that makes buildings worth building. Over time, we’ve seen an awful lot of architects use SketchUp Pro as a tool for making more-accurate bubble diagrams. They create “rooms” whose areas match the ones in the program, group each one, and arrange them three-dimensionally.
That’s where the SketchUp interoperability in Trelligence Affinity comes in. You can start with a programmatic massing model in SketchUp. Scanning your model with the Affinity plugin assigns it useful metadata. In Affinity, you can view the scanned SketchUp model in different ways. The more the merrier: Introducing Sketchup Ur Space. SketchUcation.com. CAD addict: SketchUp: List of Plugins. If you are new to Ruby Scripts, check this post on How to Install SketchUp Plugins.
There are other online resources to find Ruby scripts online. Some of the best online libraries where you can find and download SU Plugins are, as far as I know: Installation silencieuse de Google Sketchup 8 « Cahier d'un administrateur réseaux. Ohhh lala comme çà fait longtemps que je n’ai pas eu le temps d’écrire quelques mots ici! Mais voilà j’y suis ! J’ai eu besoin récemment d’installer google sketchup sur plusieurs machines n’appartenant pas au même parc etc etc… J’ai donc voulu me bricoler un script portable placé sur ma dropbox, qui me permet d’installer le fameux logiciel de google de manière silencieuse et automatisé. Voyons ensemble tout le processus. Pour cela commencez déjà par aller chercher la version 8 de google sketchup.
Une fois fait vous allez donc vous retrouver avec un fichier nommé GoogleSketchUpWFR.exe. Je vous conseille de vous préparer un répertoire tout neuf et d’y placer le fichier d’installation. Deux solutions s’offres à vous. Le fichier d’installation n’est qu’un conteneur L’autre solution consiste à exécuter l’installation et de la quitter au premier message d’accueil. On annule à cet étape! Dans la table property on change la valeur INSTALLGOOGLETOOLBAT à 0 net use t: \\172.18.*.
Bonne installation.