I was just made aware of a very cool new plugin for Sketchup called "View Parts" Put simply, it takes an assembly of parts and lays them out in scene tabs. This is something I've done manually over the years to show how an assembly of parts will look. I'll let the video below do the explaining:
You can find this plugin right inside Sketchup 2013's Extension Warehouse. It's free, and absolutely worth checking out.
The Sketchup team has added a host of new features to Sketchup. One of my favorits is the "Extension Warehouse". From right within Sketchup you can now browse, install and update extensions. A centralized plugin repository is something that I think Sketchup has needed for years and it's finally here.
In addition to the Extension Warehouse, you'll find speed improvements and hatch patterns in LayOut, a reworked toolbar interface for Windows (Customizable toolbars!!) and a whole new icon set.
In the coming weeks we'll go into more detail on these features, but for now, I suggest you go give it a download.
It's finally here! After years of development, testing, and more testing the SketchThis Kitchen Design Plugin is finally ready for public consumption. If you need to design kitchens, and you've been stuck with slow, outdated, expensive design software, today is great day for you. Even with Sketchup's meteoric rise as one of the most popular and easiest to use 3D modeling tools, there's never been a dedicated plugin to make designing kitchens so fast and easy... Until now...
This plugin features an incredibly flexible library of Dynamic Components built by kitchen designers, for kitchen designers. In addition to that you'll find a growing materials library, Shaderlight enabled lights for rendering, and a host of help videos. Best of all, when you're designing kitchens you can swap doors in and out right from the cloud.
Speaking of the cloud, every aspect of this plugin is hosted in the cloud. What does this mean for you? As we continually develop and add to the component library every user benefits from every change instantly, no waiting for software updates and long installs!
The plugin runs on any version of Sketchup 8 or later. It will work on Mac's and PC's.
Most of the content that is available is free, and "pro" content is available as a subscription for $29.99 per month.
You may have read my Basecamp recap here: But now the Sketchup team has posted hours and hours of video. I've picked out a few that I thought were really interesting for you to watch. If you weren't there, this is the next best thing!