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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Great new book: Mastering the Art of 3D Construction Modeling

Dennis Fukai is Director of Research and Development at Insitebuilders. He’s a licensed architect and contractor with more than 25 years of design and construction experience, and a Fulbright Scholar with a PhD in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught graduate and undergraduate courses in building construction and architecture for ten years before beginning his publishing company Insitebuilders.com.

You may recognize Dennis’ name; he’s been writing SketchUp books since 2004. Mastering the Art of 3D Construction Modeling is the title of his latest publication, which was released in March of this year.




Dennis’ newest book is an update to his classic 3D Construction Modeling, first published in late 2005 using Version 4 of SketchUp. The great thing about this book is that it’s also accompanied by a disc. This CD includes a series of short, illustrative videos, divided by chapter. For each chapter, the CD also contains several "tips and tricks" videos which show how to use a particular tool for a construction goal. The printed book itself is basically an illustrated index for the videos.


His books have received rave reviews because they're great at communicating 3D modeling to the construction industry. You can learn more about his latest project as well as purchase the book by reading this blog post.


Posted by Laura Allen, SketchUp Sales 


Source: The Official Google Sketchup Blog

Graphical Relationship script sequencer on Sketchup


Author: Eric C


Description: "WIP graphical relationship script sequencer for Sketchup. Ruby scripts can be placed into containers and these containers can be connected. The graph can then evaluate and create a sequence of these scripts based on what has changed. Simple demo showing graph to sketchup and sketchup to graph callback when entity changed and induce re-evaluation of its related containers in the graph." says Eric C.


Also Eric C. says: "the bezier curve creation and manipulation shown in the video is done with a plugin by Fredo6". You can find that plugin Here.


Source: Sketching 3D

Measuring time spent on SketchUp models


Tracking time spent on Sketchup models and projects will be possible soon with the new Fredo6 "SUClock" Plugin.


If you are a freelancer you will be able to bill you client without estimating about time spent on the project.


Knowing how much time you spend on every project you’ll be able to work smarter.


Fredo6 upload a video showing some of the features:




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Source: Sketching 3D