Category Archive for 'SketchUp'

Physics engine in Sketchup

Friday, June 13th, 2008

I knew Sketchup was a great modeling tool, but apparently it’s also scriptable via a Ruby API and embedded web browser. At Google’s IO conference, Scott Lininger showed off some of this awesomeness.
20 min into the video below we see Scott capturing keystroke events within the browser instance and using them to control a modelled [...]

SketchUp action

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Over the weekend I finally gave SketchUp a try and got pretty wrapped up in it. I was up till 3 Tuesday night putting the finishing touches on my first contribution to 3D Warehouse. Of course it’s a skate spot.

A great feature is that you can recreate a scene in 3D using a 2D image, [...]