Posts Tagged ‘Plugins’
Find a tutorial on using Demeter and SketchUp to get an energy analysis report and some interesting discussion on the Greenspace Research forum.
“SketchUp and Green Design” - a video from Google SketchUp 3D Basecamp conference in Mountain View, California. You will see how to use Sketchup with additional tools like Chhaya, Greenfoot, SPOT, AGI32 and the Energy Design plugin (as featured in an earlier post) to explore green building design opportunities.
You can find more 3D Basecamp session [...]
Next Limit Technologies (Madrid, Spain) announced it’s next iteration of Maxwell Render. The manual as well as several plugins for integration into CAD and 3D design applications were updated too.
The Physical Sky system in Maxwell Render 1.7 uses an entirely new approach and has been greatly enhanced adding more parameters to control the look of [...]
VE-WARE from IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd) is now available to download. It works as a Revit plug-in only for now, other options for inputting the geometry data will be coming soon.
Some highlights are:
Suitable for all building types across worldwide locations
Assesses performance against the Architecture 2030 Challenge
Easy to use – produce results at the touch [...]
Chaos Group has posted a few new videos showing their realtime rendering used as an active shade renderer in 3ds max.
“The technology is based on a highly optimized raytracing core and is capable of generating fully raytraced images with global illumination at the fraction of the time required for normal rendering. At the same time, [...]
The Energy Design Plugin, created by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy has been put online as a beta release.
This free EnergyPlus plug-in will integrate building simulation functionality into the Google’s SketchUp drawing environment. The plug-in stores EnergyPlus input data on SketchUp surfaces as they are drawn by the user. [...]
This looks like a very promising application for Revit and 3ds max user:
“nPower’s Revit to Max bi-directional translation solution provides your design visualization team the most advanced Revit to 3ds Max translation tools on the market today. nPower Software’s precise surface and solid modeling technology plugs directly into 3ds max enabling an accurate data transfer [...]
Here are some great resources for SketchUp plugins. Most of them offer free or pay per script downloads. Just download the .rb or .rbs files and place them in your SketchUp plugins folder. The plugins will automatically load when SketchUp is opened. They will be accessible as a menu item or in the SU context [...]
Greenspace’s Demeter plugin expands the benefits of using Google Sketchup for early stage building design. Demeter provides Google’s Sketchup with the ability to energy analyse a building model within seconds. Demeter also allows for the importing and exporting of the industry standard file format, gbXML, allowing models from many different sources to be viewed, edited [...]
