ReBurbia Design Competition

I like to post competitions.

Calling all future-forward architects, urban designers, renegade planners and imaginative engineers:
Show us how you would re-invent the suburbs! What would a McMansion become if it weren’t a single-family dwelling? How could a vacant big box store be retrofitted for agriculture? What sort of design solutions can you come up with to facilitate car-free mobility, ‘burb-grown food, and local, renewable energy generation? We want to see how you’d design future-proof spaces and systems using the suburban structures of the present, from small-scale retrofits to large-scale restoration—the wilder the better!

Official Rules (entries due by July 31!)

ReBurbia

3DFilter: Model and Texture Search

Cadyou.com continues its excellent design-related services by offering a free 3d model and texture search.

We have just launched a new search engine to help designers like you find 3d models and textures quickly and easily. 3dfilter.com searches the best model and texture warehouses from Google, FormFonts, The 3D Studio, 3D02, 3D Export and many more...

http://www.3dfilter.com

via cadyou.com

SketchUp Exporter for MachStudio Released

via sketchucation forums.

An exporter for models from SketchUp Pro has been one of the most frequently requested tools for MachStudio Pro. The free exporter is now avaialble making it easy to export 3D assets from SketchUp Pro 7 into MachStudio native GXB formats. These models can then be imported into MachStudio Pro where an artist can create and manipulate lights, materials, and HDR cameras in a real-time, non-linear workflow environment to achieve film quality results.

http://studiogpu.com/downloads/

twitter

I signed up for a twitter.com account recently to see what it was all about. I'm not quite sure I totally "get" it, but I have a couple ideas for its use.

First, I will be trying out twitter for smaller posts that may not justify a full blog post. Second, it could be useful for support - so if you have any SketchUp or plugin related questions or comments, send a reply to @pluginsblog.

Learning SketchUp - Take the Survey - SketchUp Help

Learning SketchUp - Take our Survey - SketchUp Help

Survey opened Jul 2.

2009 Kids’ Digital Design Contest | Architect Mason Kirby Inc.

2009 Kids’ Digital Design Contest | Architect Mason Kirby Inc.

The First Annual Kids’ Digital Design Contest is a digital design competition for ages 0-15. With the help of parents, our goal is to provide a venue for kids to demonstrate, develop and reveal their capacity for creative three dimensional thinking using the digital modeling tool SketchUp (free to download, simple to learn, and amazingly difficult to put down). Our inaugural theme is: “under/over/within” and features an intertidal aquatic site. Age based judging ensures fair competition and lots of cool prizes.

The UnicodeEx project

Thomas Thomassen has started a new project to assist in handling problems in UTF-8 strings in SketchUp.

I have started the UnicodeEx project as an effort to assist in the dealings of UTF-8 string, on obth platforms, and File methods on the Windows platform.

It's still early on - many thing can and will change. So please do not rely on this 100% yet. I make it available now in the hope that more people can assist to this project that's quickly growing in scope.

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