Interior Design

Image Trimmer Extension: Part 1 - Trimming

I had never heard of the Image Trimmer extension until I read something about it on Facebook. So I tried it out and wrote a couple of posts about it. Why trim? I’ve done a lot of projects that involve tracing and trimming, in particular for 3D printing. As an example, here’s a picture of a penguin: Using […]

Pillow Model Render

Here we are: the last post in this four-part pillow series. To recap: In Part 1 we made the basic pillow shape. In Part 2 we painted the pillow using an image. In Part 3 we rounded the corners, and adjusted the image to match. Here’s the completed pillow, saved in its own file. It looks […]

Pillow model 28

In Part 1 of this series, we created the basic shape of the pillow, and in Part 2 we painted the front face with an image of a pillow. In this post, we’ll finish up the pillow, rounding its sharp edges and painting the sides and back. RoundCorner Extension You’ll need an extension for the rounding: […]

Pillow model 17

In Part 1 of this pillow series, we left off after creating the basic shape of the pillow. We also downloaded a pillow picture. So in this post, we’ll paint the pillow “box” with the pillow image. This is the image I’m using: My image includes some blank space around the edges, which is fine. But you don’t […]

Pillows07

SketchUp is a great tool for interior design, but organic shapes like pillows can be tough to model accurately. This four-part series will show one easy way to create the perfect pillows for your furniture. Here’s the lovely room I want to decorate. The current pillows don’t do much for me – too plain. And I’m […]

Quality Components: Part 3- Podium Browser

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, […]

Quality Components: Part 2- FormFonts

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 […]

Quality Components: Part 1- SketchUp Collections

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 […]

Importing Images: Part 3 - Happy Thanksgiving!

So far in this series I showed how to bring in an image to use as a texture, and how to adjust the image’s size. For this post, I thought I’d relate all of this to Thanksgiving. How, you ask? By showing how to use image import to decorate a Thanksgiving table model. (And I realize […]