All Entries in the "Curves" Category
The Pen Tool + Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Pen Tool + plugin created by R. Obrien on the Ruby Library Depot is a useful plugin allowing you to use a variety of different pens in addition to the pen tool. Pen Tools included in version 1.4 are: – Soft Draw – is to help you create softened or smoothed lines. It works [...]
The Curve, Taper & Stock Maker Google SketchUp Plugin Reviews
The Curve Maker, Taper Maker and Stock Maker plugins created by Terry Ross on DrawMetal.com are great plugins for those in metal working or sculpting. This plugin comes with 3 plugins as mentioned and is compatible with SketchUp 8. The first is The Curve Maker, this plugin is going to be your main tool in [...]
Vertex Tools Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Vertex Tools plugin created by Thomas Thomassen is a great plugin allowing for easy manipulation of a series of vertices at once. The plugin is great for creating landscapes for surveying, free hand manipulations/sculpting, designing organic projects and many other uses. It allows you to create smooth slopes and even the ability to specify [...]
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 [...]
Round Corner 2.1 Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The RoundCorner 2.1 plugin created by Fredo6 on SketchUcation.com is a useful tool to create round corners in your SketchUp model. It comes with three main functions, the “Round Corners in 3D”, “Sharp Corners in 3D” and “Bevel Edges and Corners”. The round corners does just that, create rounded corners from selected faces. The sharp [...]
LSS Toolbar Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The LSS Toolbar created by created by Kirill is a great toolbar that combines many of Kirill’s plugins in one easy to use menu. It has been slightly overdue but now that its here it is a great addition! Kirill’s famous plugin is the SU Blend plugin that will blend or morph two faces into [...]
Shape Bender Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Shape Bender plugin created by Chris Fullmer on SketchUcation.com is a fantastic tool to warp objects along curved paths. This tool really allows you to take SketchUp one step further allowing you to create curved objects with specific accuracy, which many tools of this kind lack. The tool allows you to specify what area [...]
Fredo Scale Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Fredo Scale plugin created by Fredo6 on SketchUcation.com is a great tool to use for manipulating objects in specific ways. In general the tool works the same way as the normal scale tool in the respect that it provides you end points to manipulate similarly to the scale tool. Though this tool takes the [...]
Joint Push Pull Plugin Google SketchUp Review
The Joint Push Pull plugin created by Fredo on SketchUcation.com is a useful tool to use the push pull command on curved surfaces. There are times that you need to do this and the original tool provided by SketchUp will not work on surfaces if they have even a slight curve to them. Joint Push [...]
Bezier Spline Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Bezier Spline plugin created by Fredo6 on SketchUcation.com is a set of tools to create bezier curves easily. As SketchUp does not come with a good option for this, Bezier Spline allows you to create these curves with ease by utilizing the almost 13 tools in the palette. The most commonly used is the [...]
