SketchUp for Design

In case you are in need of an opinionated architectural critique, look no further. You can now employ AI for that! With the recently introduced vision capabilities in OpenAI’s services and therefore my OpenAI Explorer SketchUp extension, you can now ask questions about what is in your SketchUp model. But that’s not all: For a […]

I recently refreshed my SketchUp News extension, making it easier than ever to stay updated with the latest in the SketchUp community. Now, you can access SketchUp news from blogs, videos, forum discussions, and social media in three convenient ways.

In this tutorial I cover one specific use case for my OpenAI Explorer SketchUp extension: A coding ‘copilot’ (assistant) for Ruby code. This is one of several use cases for this extension and it has the potential to at least save you from a ton of web browsing. When I write SketchUp Ruby code, I […]

A few days ago, the Trimble folks announced the release of a new point cloud extension for SketchUp, Trimble Scan Essentials For SketchUp. This came on the heels of their release of version 2020.1 of SketchUp Pro. And if you asked me, being able to easily work with point clouds in SketchUp is absolutely the […]

In this video I cover how to create the mobile from Chapter 6 in my book. This involves finding the accurate centroid for irregular shapes, which is easily done with my centroid extension. Just model this, send it to the laser cutter, and then hang it. Tutorial Video This is a free sample instructional video […]

In this tutorial I illustrate a useful technique for cases where you need to combine several texture images into one material. I am using the example of a cross-laminated timber (CLT) here but you can employ this for many other applications. The beauty of using SketchUp for this (instead of Photoshop) is that you can apply textures to correctly-scaled objects (which you first create using SketchUp’s modeling tools).