Earth Day – Energy Simulation Plugins for SketchUp
Google SketchUp is celebrating Earth Day with the launch of a new website (I miss the old layout, the new layout is simply ugly) and some really interesting plugins for people that are into sustainability.
Created by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Design Plugin is a free plugin for the Google SketchUp 3D drawing program. It models heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation and other energy flows in buildings.
Google SketchUp appears to be growing stronger every day, it used to be a simple 3d modeling tool. Anyway, Tuesday was Earth Day.
Happy Earth Day, you know, there seems to be some “special day” everyday, women day, labor day, mother’s day, father’s day, teachers day, blah blah blah, someone should propose – “No Day”, we need a break from all of these celebrations.
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ArchiCAD and Podium SketchUp Plugin
Graphisoft, the global leader in 5D Virtual Construction solutions and pioneer in 3D building modeling, has announced its Virtual Building solution tie-up with one of the most popular architects’ preliminary design packages — SketchUp. The integration of SketchUp with ArchiCAD lets architects and Principals alike, focus on creativity at the earliest concept phase of any new project, knowing that their designs can be automatically imported into ArchiCAD and further developed. ArchiCAD modelers who already sketch in SketchUp can get their free communications download is at Graphisoft Website.
This SketchUp add-on means, in day-to-day design terms, a smoother workflow from the building’s very conception through to a 3D model. Now, even these earliest sketch concepts formed in SketchUp can be incorporated into the intelligent Virtual Building environment. Here detail can then be easily added, and data interoperability can open the model to a range of other applications. Feasibility studies of volume and materials can be performed at this sketch phase, linking the building data to the SketchUp faces in ArchiCAD to support the design brief at this early stage of client cooperation. You can win the project with your clear SketchUp concept design — but now in ArchiCAD you can prove your design is viable.
Bence Kovacs, Graphisoft’s VP of Product Management explains: “We recognize the global popularity of SketchUp. Its remarkable, designer-friendly interface can now offer the best of both worlds with our ArchiCAD solution. Our cooperation with @Last Software ensures a seamless data transfer route from concept surfaces and colors into intelligent architectural objects and materials.”
The simplicity and power in SketchUp has always been appealing to the design community at large, and now this link to ArchiCAD opens a natural path to integrated and documented virtual design and construction. Any Senior Designer will find the ability to transfer simple SketchUp models into a productive and documented ArchiCAD Virtual Building appealing. “Our users are increasingly demanding that their SketchUp designs be reusable in the post- conceptual phase of their projects, ” says Dr. Mark Limber, Director of New Markets Development at @Last Software. “The capability to transfer SketchUp data seamlessly into ArchiCAD will enable users to be more productive overall, and their clients will be more satisfied with the results.”
The main features of the plugin are:
- – Automatic Transfer – SketchUp models can be imported into ArchiCAD in a mouse-click. Based on the geometric characteristics of the SketchUp elements, they will be converted into ArchiCAD construction elements (horizontal surfaces to slabs, vertical ones to walls, oblique ones to roofs, components to objects, doors or windows).- Manual Transfer – You can predefine rules based on which SketchUp elements (simple surfaces, non-parametric components) will be converted into intelligent ArchiCAD construction elements (e.g. walls, slabs, roofs and even parametric library parts).- Automatic floor plan generation for multi-story buildings – You can easily slice up the SketchUp model at each story height and in ArchiCAD the stories are separated and all the floor-plans are created automatically.- Saving/Loading Transfer Rules – Once you have set up the rules of transfer for the optimum result, you can easily save and store them for later and apply them for any other projects.
To download the addon, go to SketchUp for ArchiCAD
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