All Entries in the "Essential Plugins" Category
House Builder Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The House Builder plugin created by Steve Hurlbut and D. Bur on the Ruby Library Depot is a very efficient tool to create a home wood frame construction processes with studs and joists. The plugin allows you to create doors, windows and even roof pitches automatically.
If you are an architect, builder, general contractor or [...]
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 corners [...]
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 [...]
Flattery Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Flattery plugin created by Pumpkin Pirate is a great unfolding tool. This plugin is similar to the Unfold Tool but provides the user much more control. This plugin allows you to unfold an object, then edit the way the object unfolds, add connecting tabs to help with connecting the model, and exporting [...]
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 to [...]
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 [...]
Drop Tool Google SketchUp Plugin Review
The Drop Tool plugin created by an anonymous author on Ruby Library Depot is a useful tool to drop many components onto a surface that is not completely flat. It allows you to do this simply with the right click of the mouse then choosing “drop at intersection”. Another element of the tool allows you [...]
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 “Classic [...]
Tools on Surface Google SketchUp Review
The Tools on Surface plugin by Fredo6 on Sketchucation.com is a useful plugin to easily design on surfaces that aren’t the standard flat planes. Such as on surface of a circle or a curve. The plugin comes with a complete set of tools just like the original palette that comes with SketchUp on its own [...]
