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Toggle Units Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Toggle Units plugin created by Matt666 on SketchUcation.com is an essential plugin to have in your SketchUp toolbox. It allows you to switch between metric units, standard units and other fornmats while using SketchUp. Toggle Units allows you to switch from Meters to Centimeter and Millimeters in the Decimal mode. You can also switch [...]
Shaderlight Google SketchUp Plugin Review
Updated: 6/30/2010 The Shaderlight renderer created by Art VPS is a new beta rendering engine for SketchUp and many other 3D design programs. The renderer is actually its own separate program that integrates with SketchUp. Once installed it is automatically picked up by SketchUp. This product works really well considering it is completely FREE. You [...]
Superellipse Google SketchUp Plugin Review
*Updated: 6/30/2010 New version of the plugin is available. Includes a scale from 1-100 as suggested below. The Superellipse plugin created by Regular Polygon on regularpolygon.blogspot.com is a plugin to create super ellipses or square like ellipses. In general this simple plugin allows you to create these shapes that up until now have been over [...]
Automatic Face Reverser Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Face Reverser plugin created by Didier Bur on Sketchucation.com is a simple but yet effective tool to reverse faces so that they are facing the correct direction. A face generally is pointing up or down, just a way for SketchUp to distinguish between both sides of a face. The face orientation comes into play [...]
Align Tool Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Align Tool plugin created by Didier Bur on SketchUcation.com is an essential tool to help you with aligning objects and components in your model. With just a simple right click and then defining a few points you can align objects precisely and quickly. The Align Tool works really well, but it does take a [...]
3D PDF Google SketchUp Plugin
The 3D PDF plugin created by SimLab Soft is an amazing plugin to bring the interactivity of SketchUp to the PDF platform. Meaning that now it is easy to present your work with the features of 3D on an easy to view PDF document. A feature missing in Google’s Layout for SketchUp. The plugin allows [...]
Lattice Maker Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Lattice Maker plugin created by TIG on SketchUcation.com is a simple plugin allowing you to make lattice style arrays and frames. The plugin works great to create skylights, sculptures, mosaic glass tiles, greenhouses and much more. This plugin is great for architects and contractors to create works simply and quickly. The plugin allows you [...]
Windowizer Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Windowizer plugin (version 3) created by Rick Wilson on Smustard.com is a simple tool to create windows for your SketchUp model. It gives you many options such as trim colors, glass styles and arrangements. Using the plugin is simple but not really that intuitive. You need to make sure that you select a single [...]
Fur Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Fur plugin created by user Tak2hata on SketchUcation.com is a simple plugin to create blades of grass or fur in a model. Most SketchUp users will probably use this to create grass and other greenery. But I am sure there are those exceptions that will have the need to model a guerrilla, they will [...]
Smooth Step Animation Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Smooth Step Animation plugin created by user Whaat on SketchUcation.com is a simple plugin allowing you to create smooth scene transitions from one scene to another. It is quick and easy to use and works very well. You will need a program to stitch the images together in an animation. The Smooth Step Animation [...]
