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 […]
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 […]
In previous versions of SketchUp, you could manage extensions in the Preferences window. By managing, I mean enabling and disabling, or uninstalling. In SketchUp 2017, this is now done in the Extension Manager – I really like this improvement. Access it with this icon: All of your installed extensions, new and old, are listed […]
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced Skatter, the amazing extension that allows you to mass-place objects onto surfaces. Specifically, with Skatter you can create detailed, vast forest plantings, lawns, and similar vegetation patterns. In this post, I’ll show a quick demo of using Skatter to generate a quick mass vegetation planting for a bridge […]
When I first came across Skatter, I cheered out loud. This powerful extension allows for easy mass placement of objects, in particular vegetation, onto a model surface. And since its first release, Skatter’s ability to generate vast forested areas has become even better. And while excellent for placing many, many trees and shrubs into SketchUp, Skatter’s real power […]
In Part 1 of this Joint Push Pull series, Bonnie showed some simple examples of what you can do with the Joint Push Pull extension. I’m going to show a few real-world models where I’ve been able to use JPP with awesome (and fast) results. Massing Model This master plan model has a number of faces […]
In the previous post, Daniel showed a few features of SketchUp’s ever-popular Push/Pull tool. But when you’ve exhausted all that tool can do, it’s time to bring in the heavy hitters: the Joint Push Pull extension. This extension has been around for a while, and once you have it you’re hooked. In this post, I’ll show […]
You might think that a post on SketchUp‘s Push/Pull tool would seem very basic. But while Push/Pull is probably SketchUp’s most-used tool, there are some features you might not know about. I’ll talk about a few common options – these are easy to perform and can save you modeling time. Double-Clicking After you Push/Pull your initial surface, you can double-click […]
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