In Part 1 of this end-of-year series, I showed how to use the FredoScale extension to model a spiral Christmas ornament. In this post, I’ll use FredoScale to make a candy cane. Gather your kids around – they can do this one, too. Make the Striped Tower Start with a circle on the ground, and […]
We like to be seasonal here at 3Daily, so here’s a nice project to get you in the holiday spirit (if you’re not already). Your kids will enjoy this as well – it’s not too hard. While you could make this ornament with just SketchUp’s native tools, the FredoScale extension makes it a piece of cake. And […]
Good SketchUp modelers always make use of components when objects repeat in a model. For example, they use components for identical windows, drawer handles, columns, etc. Nesting components are components that are comprised of other components (or groups). This post will demonstrate what this means, why you should use nested components, and how the Outliner can make this […]
I came across a cool animated tutorial on a Facebook page called SketchUp Tutorials. The short video on that page showed a few ways to use the Memory Copy extension. This fun and easy-to-use extension by Adam Billyard is available for free from SketchUcation (free account required). See our post on installing SketchUcation extensions directly into SketchUp. I used Memory […]
The first two posts in this series discussed how to find lightweight, well-crafted models by the SketchUp team, and models offered by the subscription service FormFonts. This post showcases one more resource: Podium Browser. SU Podium is pretty well known as a SketchUp rendering engine. Podium Browser is a collection of render-ready entourage models (trees, […]
Part 1 of this series on quality components focused on generic, lightweight models provided by the SketchUp team. This post is about another great resource for quality SketchUp models: FormFonts. The model creators at FormFonts have been at it for almost 15 years. It’s a subscription service, but you can download up to 30 models […]
My “day job” project this week has been working on a chapter for an upcoming book on Modeling with SketchUp for Film and Stage Design. This chapter is about props – modeling or importing entourage objects such as furniture, knick-knacks, plants, and of course, people. If you rely only on the 3D Warehouse for these […]
Every now and then I’ll get a list, on a blog or via Facebook, of top SketchUp extensions. They tend to mostly say the same things, and if you’re new to extensions a “top” list is a good place to start. The latest one I saw come by way of a Facebook page called Winning […]
Several months ago, I posted about SketchUcation’s ExtensionStore – a popular resource for some wonderful SketchUp extensions. With SketchUp 2017, what’s changed is the way you install the ExtensionStore. Once that’s accessible from SketchUp, and you have a free SketchUcation account, installing extensions remains easy and automatic. You’ll need the Extension Manager for this, which […]
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