The Bottom Line – Making Money with Google SketchUp

February 19, 2011

February 19th 2011 @ 7pm

The global economic downturn forced Robert Pineo, an Architect from Charlottesville, VA to move out of the office in search for work and there he surprisingly discovered new and alternative ways to sell SketchUp. He talks to Mateo Soletic about pre-development design and his other experiences: “The lessons I learned opened my eyes to a business opportunity most architects have not tapped: the need to tell a compelling story.“

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Lighting with V-Ray for SketchUp – definitive guide part 1

February 14, 2011

14th February @ 2:15pm

Happy Valentines Day!

Nomeradona shows you how, with the basics, to create a realistic lampshade material and how to position the rectangular lights to achieve the right effect for your shade, using up to date releases of V-Ray for SketchUp. Its a must for those struggling with lighting and those who want to know how the experts do it. There will be more to come in this mini series of lighting tutorials.

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Styles Collection – C

February 3, 2011

SketchUpArtists have one of the largest collection of free SketchUp Styles available on the web. They are created by some of the very best SketchUp professionals in the world, who have freely contributed their time and skills to produce them. We hope this visual library will be a useful reference and inspiration in your future creative process.

TIP: When exporting your finished image from SketchUp, export it at a higher resolution (eg. 3000 pixels wide) rather than the screen size. This will make your lines thinner and some Styles less busy. Or you can change the way a sketchy Style might look by adjusting the size of the exported image (under the Option button in the Export window) and resizing it in an external image editor like Photoshop.

Four New Styles by Dave Richards