Online Help Session

SketchUp: Best Practices

By luke | Blog, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

The start of 2019 was busy for us launching ConDoc 4.5 and all, but we recently got back to our live webinar sessions. This month, we chose a quick drafting and 3D modeling project creating a custom bathroom design from the ground up. There were...

Eneroth Plugins

By luke | Blog, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

We've been off the air for a while, but to kick of the start of 2018, we reviewed our favorite SketchUp plugins from Christina Eneroth. We've mentioned it before, but time is critical when your project is on the line, and with the help of...

What’s New in SketchUp 2018

By luke | Blog, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

In case you couldn't make our December Office Hours, we closed out the year with a few laps around the latest version of SketchUp 2018. We were excited to have many new features including section fills, the ability to import DWGs in LayOut, and some...

Normal Maps in Lumion

By luke | Blog, Lumion, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

In our September Office Hours session, we took a look at a hidden side to rendering materials often known as 'Normal Maps' or 'Bump Maps'. We showcased a mini demonstration where we utilized these normal maps to create the illusion of 3D Geometry with the...

Interior Elevations

By luke | Blog, ConDoc Tools, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

In our August Office Hours session, we assembled a demo on how to create detailed interior elevations in SketchUp using ConDoc Tools. Although you may gravitate toward using the 'Section Cut' tools in SketchUp, our ConDoc Tools plugin helps to automate the most difficult tasks...

Curtains Are a Breeze

By mike | Blog, Lumion, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

In our June Office Hours session, we ran through a demo on how to create custom wavy curtains in SketchUp and Lumion. While it's super easy to search for detail objects like curtains in the 3D Warehouse and FormFonts, we often don't realize how easy...

Estimator for SketchUp

By luke | Blog, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

In last month's Office Hours Session, we featured guest John Brock from Estimator. He and Mike walked us through the plugin using a real 3D model of a bathroom renovation project. Estimator gives you the ability to assign real-time cost by component, layer, or even...

Subtle Lighting in Lumion

By luke | Blog, Lumion, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

Last month, we took a look at how to create dramatic renderings with subtle lighting in Lumion. We often feel inclined to use the largest and most powerful lights in our renderings, and we fail to forget how subtle lighting can enhance a room with the same...

Move Tool and SketchUp for Professionals

By luke | Blog, ConDoc Tools, Lumion, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

If you were unable to join our Office Hours webinar last month, we uncovered the mysteries of the Move Tool. We looked at many of the shortcuts and tricks to utilize all functions of the Move Tool to aid in faster modeling techniques. We also looked...

Multiple Section Planes

By luke | Blog, ConDoc Tools, Lumion, Office Hours Session, SketchUp

Fresh from our February Online Help Session, we've compiled a youtube playlist with all of the highlights. In last month's session, Mike showed us a trick that very few people know when using Section Planes in SketchUp; how to create multiple Section Planes and how to...