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2016 SketchUp 3D Basecamp Recap

June 17, 2016May 29, 2018 by Alex Schreyer4 Comments

Tip: Once the 360-degree viewer loads, click and drag the image above to explore Steamboat Springs!I just returned from Trimble's 2016 3D Basecamp, SketchUp's biannual user conference, which this year was held in Colorado's super-beautiful resort of Steamboat Springs. This year's iteration, which drew over 600 participants, featured five days of presentations, lots of industry sponsors, and an amazing social program. You can find my images from the trip and the events in the gallery at the end of the post.It was great to see so much emphasis by the presenters put on the use of SketchUp for big projects, which often showed data-heavy, BIM-oriented implementations. Another major emphasis was virtual reality with various viewer companies exhibiting. I even got my hands on testing the Microsoft Hololens at the event. Of course, all of this went along with presentations about good 3D modeling, rendering and visualization, and digital fabrication (there were even some cool, CNC-fabricated games and furniture, made by Eric Schimelpfenig, available in the...

Scripting 101: Learn to Code with SketchUp (my 2016 #3DBasecamp presentation)

June 15, 2016May 29, 2018 by Alex Schreyer1 Comment

This page provides some additional information for my presentation at the 2016 3D Basecamp on Wednesday, June 15th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm in Sleeping Giant Description: Get your hour of code right here, right inside SketchUp! Learn the basics of coding with SketchUp’s Ruby language during this talk with just a few, easy-to-follow exercises. Coding is a rewarding skill that lets you precisely control the computer to create anything from simple lines to parametric geometry. Best of all: If you code with SketchUp, then you can even 3D print the results. If you are an educator: With the approach shown here, you can teach your students not only modeling or 3D printing with SketchUp, but also coding. Stay with one software rather than having to teach with several different ones! More Documents:Code samples handout ...

Information Modeling in SketchUp: An Overview (my 2016 #3DBasecamp presentation)

June 13, 2016May 29, 2018 by Alex Schreyer3 Comments

This page provides some additional information for my presentation at the 2016 3D Basecamp on.Monday, June 13th 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm in Sleeping Giant Description: Counter to popular belief, SketchUp can do much more than just “sketching”. This session dives deeper into the software, exploring techniques for creating parametric, data-loaded Dynamic Components, deploying the new IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) functionality for BIM projects, and using scripting to bend the software to your will. With these information modeling tools, you can set up an efficient workflow for planning, estimating, and exchanging projects with software such as Revit, and more. More Documents:my_schema.xsd get_cost.rb ...

SketchUp Basecamp 2016 Announced

September 24, 2015October 5, 2015 by Alex SchreyerNo Comments

The folks at SketchUp just today announced 3D Basecamp 2016, their next iteration of this user conference. After last time in Vail, this event will be a bit further in the mountains, in Steamboat Springs, CO, and it'll take place in June. As always, It'll be an amazing venue for learning more about SketchUp and meeting other SketchUp-pers. Cant wait!You can learn more about the event and register here:http://blog.sketchup.com/sketchupdate/announcing-3d-basecamp-2016...

Why Component-Based Modeling Makes Sense

November 10, 2014May 29, 2018 by Alex SchreyerNo Comments

As I describe in chapter 3 of my book, a component-based modeling workflow makes a lot of sense. It allows you to use a hierarchical model organization, work with attributes, dynamic components and - most recently - Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). I covered this approach at Trimble's SketchUp 3D Basecamp in Vail earlier this year. You can view the entire presentation as a video below:http://youtu.be/WWUyyP9v6hwIf you are interested in Dynamic Components, also watch Eric Schimelpfenig's presentation on "Dynamic Components, Greatest Hits, Vol. 1".P.S. This a similar presentation to what I gave at Trimble's Dimensions 2014 conference last week....