Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Architectural Design with SketchUp
Triangulate Points
By TIG—Free [5, 6]
This is a triangulation-only version of the Cloud plugin. You can use it to triangulate point
clouds (made with construction points) that you already have in SketchUp.
Plugins for Animation and Presentation
CubicPanoOut
By J. Wehby—Free [4]
This tool takes your current viewpoint and exports a cubic panorama as a set of six JPGs. This
is an easy way to create interactive 3D panoramas from SketchUp models. You can even create
panoramas for models that have custom styles (e.g., in the blueprint style).
Depending on the 3D panorama format (e.g., QuickTime), it is possible to embed such a
panorama on a webpage and let visitors explore a space virtually.
FlightPath and FlightPath2
By R. Wilson—Free/$7 [4]
While SketchUp’s tabbed animation feature is very useful for walk-throughs and flyarounds,
its results are not very smooth and the path is controllable only through a tab’s viewpoint.
Use this plugin to define a path and create walk-throughs based on this path.
Keyframe Animation
By Regular Polygon—$24 [http://regularpolygon.org/keyframe-animation]
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A commercial object animation plugin. You use it by assigning animation tabs in SketchUp
where you want keyframes to be. This plugin saves object positions with animation tabs and
animates objects (linearly and by rotation) when you switch tabs or play the scene animation.
Animations can also be exported to a movie.