Today in SketchUpland

Check out Keyframe Animation at its new home at http://regularpolygon.org/. 


SkIndigo 1.0.15 beta was released today: "Many big changes here including major export speedups. Please consider this a test release. Requires Indigo 3.0.X. "


The SketchUp API Blog is "highly recommending" developers of plugins for SketchUp use the SketchupExtension class for their plugins.


Thomas has recently released a couple of interesting new plugins and updates including Shell and Quad Faces. 


LimitlessComputing released SightSpace 3D which  "enables mobile viewing of Google SketchUp™ models."


A couple of interesting new plugins under development - bim-tools (scf topic) which creates walls from lines and hopes to be able to export to IFC, and Hatchfaces which applies a hatch pattern as a Group onto faces in SketchUp.


A new plugin by TIG called Drop Verticies allows a multitude of vertex manipulations along SketchUp's Z axis. Supports moving verts to nearest object, nearest below, nearest above, lowest, highest, and more.


And finally, scf user kyyu released a great utilility that limits the available handles when using SketchUp's Scale tool. This is a great help when modeling with lumber and sheet components.

PlayUp - Making it Easy to Make Games

PlayUp, a SketchUp plugin for exporting content to a 3D game engine is under heavier-than-usual development recently. The latest releases include initial support CryEngine 3, as well as bug fixes.

PlayUp - Making it Easy to Make Games - www.PlayUpTools.com

Kerkythea Rendering System New Forum

Just a quick note to say the Kerkythea forums have a new linK: Kerkythea Rendering System • Index page

Kerkythea Echo Boost (Release Candidate 2.5.2)

At the end of March, a new version of Kerkythea named "Kerklythe Echo Boost" was announced on the Kerkythea forums.

At last, a release candidate has been release and is available from the Kerkythea Forum.

Please note this version (2.5.2) is not the final, stable relase but a release candidate for people interested in testing the software.

Visit the Kerkythea Forum for more information and download.

SUperPlan: 3D-based Automated Construction Planning for SketchUp

Over the past few years, Mark States (Delivery Simulation Ltd) has been developing an automated construction planning plugin for SketchUp.

The plugin has not yet been released, and Mark is looking for "Quantity Surveyors and/or Construction Planners who use SketchUp (PC preferred to MAC)" who are interested in testing and providing feedback on the plugin.

If you're interested in helping out, please contact Mark at http://www.superplan.info/

[ via SketchUcation ]

Keyframe Animation version 1.3 Released

Version 1.3 simplifies the creation of animations by elimating the need to name and select each target object in the animation. The result is more intuitive and efficient work-flow.



[ via Regular Polygon: Plugin: Keyframe Animation 1.3 ]

New Version of Kerkythea Under Testing

An announcement earlier this month (Mar, 2011) on the Kerkythea Forums brings some great news for Kerkythea users. A new version, named Kerkythea Echo Boost, is currently being tested and will be made available "as soon as possible" according to Kerythea developer giannis:

[the new version] comes with 2 significant improvements: 64-bit builds and speed increase of 50% or more! This is why, we decided to call the new build "Echo Boost".

[ via Kerythea News Forum ]