Need to reference heights whilst you’re modeling or during crucial stakeholder meetings? Then this extension is for you. Great for: Creating bespoke and standard profiles for repetitive geometries.Extend these profiles along paths to create a profile member, and combine profile members to create parametrically-defined assemblies. Create profiles using simple or complex SketchUp faces and polylines. This extension massively speeds up modeling time because it makes repetitive tasks a piece of cake. System compatibility: Available for Windows and Mac.Who uses it? Beginner to intermediate user.The Unreal Datasmith Plugin for SketchUp also enables seamless exports from SketchUp to Unreal Engine. Image courtesy of Turner Fleischer Architectsĭeveloped by Epic Games and previously deployed for gaming development, Unreal Engine is ideal for creating approachable, super-fast renders that can be navigated in real-time.
This should give you a sense of pushing and pulling a real-life building. Lumion Live Sync allows you to establish a live connection which means you can model and render simultaneously. Pricing: Available as part of SketchUp Studio.
All three offer the opportunity to create professional hyper-realistic renders.” I’m also an avid Lumion user and Unreal Engine apprentice. The rendering power trio: “I keep V-Ray in Live mode, and render from there. Based on a conversation with Anders Hus Folkedal, who’s work at Ramboll we’ve featured on the blog, we’ve shortlisted ten key extensions any 3D enthusiast can add to their workflow to improve productivity and speed up modeling. It is even more powerful because users can supercharge its capabilities by customizing it with extensions to suit their unique workflow. SketchUp is pretty robust straight out of the box.