How to apply wood texture maps to your sketchup models

SketchUp models look much better when their surfaces get texture and color. Heiko Rech provides some useful tips through this sketchup video for applying color and texture maps to the surfaces of your sketchup models to make them beautiful as well as include detail and realism to your models.

SketchUp facilitates you to paint materials on faces. Materials basically belong to paints which contain a color and optional texture.

Once you apply materials to your model, the special abilities of SketchUp’s materials can allow you to perform various tasks like replace one material with another, edit the material, measure the quantities of materials required.

SketchUp comprises of different types of materials collections: carpet, tile, groundcover, glass, wood, and more. It is possible to generate your own material if the particular material, you are looking for is unavailable.

Within the SketchUp interface, the materials are modeled with the Paint Bucket tool and the Materials browser (Microsoft Windows) or the Colors browser (Mac OS X). The Materials or Colors browser also facilitates you to view, manage, and arrange the materials. With the Materials or Colors browser, it becomes easier to monitor the materials in your model and produce your own custom materials collections as per your projects or workflows.

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Arka Roy
http://www.sketchup4architect.com
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3D Pen – a newest technology ahead

The newest technology in the world of 3D modeling is 3D pen.

With the world’s latest affordable 3D-printing technology, 3D pens, a designer can make solid drawings and craft impressive sculptures. But how can a designer use this marvelous tool?

If you are going to start new profession in full swing, then this small and smart 3D printing pen will assist you definitely. The pen, dubbed 3Doodler that can ‘write’ in three dimensions.

Experts says, the pen, which works something like a glue gun, allows the user to wave it in mid-air to create a three-dimensional rendering.

The 3Doodler plugs into an electrical outlet and oozes a thin strand of heated plastic, which quickly cools and solidifies, allowing the user to build an infinite variety of patterns and shapes.

It can create 3D designs on flat surfaces or in the air.

Spaghetti-like strands of ABS thermoplastic in a range of colors can be loaded into the back of the pen, and WobbleWorks says each one-foot strand of plastic can produce about 11 feet of moldable material.

This 3D printing pen has great potential and can be a perfect tool for stylists, architects, designers and anybody who are interested in 3D printing. We also continually have new ideas of how to restructure our 3D technology.

The prime features of the 3D pen are:

• It helps impressive art, jewellery, sculptures, and a variety of homeware.
• It helps traditional and digital artists looking to express their creativity on a new level.
• The children and parents are looking for clean and easy creative projects to enjoy;
• The hobbyists are looking to acquire useful tips, tricks, and working practices to make the most out of their 3D-printing pens.

The pen has some nice plus points:

• It is small in size.
• It is light weighted.
• Using is noiseless.
• It offers extreme portability.
• It is very comfortable to use.
• It has beautiful design.
• It has aluminum body.
• Filament 1.75 mm.

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Published By

Arka Roy

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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