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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2014/">3D
Basecamp 2014</a> is coming up next month, with a focus on SketchUp education
for all ability levels. This is the place to fine-tune or improve your 3D
Basecamp or SketchUp skills!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Details:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3D Basecamp 2014 will take place April 14th – 16<sup>th</sup>
at the Vail Cascade Resort & Spa in Vail, Colorado. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The conference is uniquely built to provide training
sessions, workshops, presentations and more to help you improve your skills in
SketchUp. According to the 3D Basecamp website, the conference is one “where
architects, set designers, woodworkers, construction managers, students, robot
builders, archeologists, and engineers all get together to share what they
know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attendees will learn everything from how to create
construction drawings in SketchUp Pro to how to use SketchUp Make for 3D
printing. <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2014/program/presenters/diane-dieterich">I
am happy to be providing</a> two <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2014/program/sessions">presentations
and an engaging workshop</a> at 3D Basecamp 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first presentation will be titled “Refining Your
Interiors: Matching Textures from the Real World”. In the 45-minute
presentation, you will learn how to alter the materials in SketchUp’s Paint
Bucket, find other textures outside of the program, and work with
manufacturers’ images to complete your real-world projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another presentation I’ll be doing at 3D Basecamp this year
is “Refining Your Interiors: Customizing Components”. Since most interior
design project budgets normally don’t allow from-scratch modeling of furniture
and fixtures, you need a time-saving alternative. This presentation will
demonstrate how to alter 3D Warehouse components to create an approximation of
real-world pieces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both of these presentations will relate to my workshop,
“Editing Textures and Components for Interiors: Hands-On Workshop”. You’ll be
able to use what you learned in my presentations and apply that knowledge
hands-on! The workshop trains participants on creating and editing textures and
components for real-world projects. This three-hour workshop will take place on
Tuesday afternoon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you’ll join me in one or all of these presentations
and the workshop, since it will offer an excellent opportunity to apply some
real-world techniques to your SketchUp skill set.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Registration for the 3D Basecamp 2014 event is completely
sold out, so this looks to be a really great event! See you there!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-22537780597370629742014-02-07T13:40:00.000-08:002014-02-07T13:40:55.325-08:00I am pretty excited to just have been invited to present at the National SketchUp conference next April in Vail. I was chatting on the phone with Aidan Chopra, who wrote the Bible "SketchUp for Dummies" and felt like a teen-age girl wanting to pinch myself. <br />
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For those of you who don't know about this conference, it's called SketchUp BaseCamp. It's 3 days full of seminars from the top SketchUp Gurus from around the country. I'll be talking about some advanced material and component modeling techniques for interior designers. Tons to learn and an incredible hotel deal in this amazing ski mecca. Just checked and airline tix are $178 round trip. What's not to like? <br />
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Here's some more info: http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2013/10/announcing-sketchup-3d-basecamp-2014.html<br />
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Try a Great new Kitchen Cabinet Plug-in for $1</h2>
There has always been a surprising lack of complete kitchen in the 3D warehouse for interior designers to utilize. My friend, Eric Schimelpfenig (great name, huh?) at SketchThis has developed a great plug-in of cabinetry components to address this hole. Eric is a certified Kitchen Designer and a SketchUp Whiz, so this was a perfect niche for him. The Plug-in is easy to use works well for basic cabinetry layout.<br />
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<br />Even better, you can now give this plug-in a try for only $1. Go to http://sketchthis.net/try-sketchthis-for-a-dollar/ for more details.Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-985118552329729222013-10-24T10:16:00.003-07:002013-10-24T10:16:50.499-07:00Free Texture Downloads for 7 days<br />
http://www.graphicstock.com/<br />
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Finding free high-quality textures is always difficult. Here's a great resource...once you sign up, you get to download 20 free images a day for 7 days. I just tried it today...had luck finding some good wood flooring images, which always seem to be hard to locate.<br />
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The best tip for searching on this site is to put in the search terms "seamless texture". I also like to use just textured backgrounds to "paint" my rooms with. If you scale them correctly, they can just look like plaster or faux finishes, and they have much more depth than just painting on a solid SketchUp color.<br />
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Here's some wood floor examples I found....<br />
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<br />Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-51582667581369392842013-09-18T09:21:00.001-07:002013-09-18T09:21:52.329-07:00<br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">SketchUp for Architects</span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Using Layout for Construction Documents</span></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">One of the questions always posed to me is "Do I need SketchUp Pro?". Probably the biggest advantage of the Pro version is the inclusion of an add-on program called Layout, w</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">hich allows you to import your SketchUp model into construction documents and thendimension and annotate them there with more precision. Some architects and designers use this method solely to create their working drawings.<br /><br />Below is a couple of examples to illistrate how powerful this feature is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /><br />Interested in hearing more from the "guru" of architectural layouts: Check out this Youtube video by Nick Sonders at<a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJnHrdUCenzs%26list%3DPLaVYG8XC1VouXpBQ2yvZFs-xmPPtmYb6b%26index%3D1&h=zAQETV0_o&enc=AZMxWFW9AJcBTslbRz43W_O-GOfW_rp_Q1MTSiOKWuzgy4iNb_3-8UX52kEdKq9wSeCygKPL_YkolxAifSYLyDA1mhWqD9hqf9qJc-8HGT01zTslKUmS69pU0trpMApW5FIq40bBNp2Ie5nGHyzK_M3K&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnHrdUCenzs&list=PLaVYG8XC1VouXpBQ2yvZFs-xmPPtmYb6b&index=1</a></span></span>Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-34829238273542389702013-09-09T11:38:00.000-07:002013-09-09T11:38:16.021-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">The Paint Bucket Tool is unquestionably the one tool that is very different between the Mac and PC. If you've taken any of my classes, you know that I'm teaching with a PC, but Mac users can pretty much follow along, with the exception of applying and altering textures with the Paint Bucket tool. I always feel a bit sorry for ya'll when we get to that part of the class.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">So, I've tried to hunt down some additional resources for Mac users to help alleviate my guilt about leaving you a little behind when we use this tool. I've found an incredible online resource thats a compendium to the Rendering in SketchUp book I talked about a couple of weeks back. Find it at http://ambit-3d.com/RenderingInSketchUp-Resource.html</span>Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-64179946378597083092013-09-09T11:37:00.000-07:002013-09-09T11:37:03.624-07:00<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The textures that come packaged with SketchUp have always been a sad affair for interior designers. Tiles, flooring, fabrics all look like they were chosen in 1970. I've often recommended Formfonts </span><a href="http://www.formfonts.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.formfonts.com/</a><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> as a source of</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> great textures, but their subscription rate is $199 every year.<br />I'd like to recommend an additional sources of textures: CG Textures <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cgtextures.com%2F&h=iAQHDtDO2&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.cgtextures.com/</a> They provide a variety of textures for a variety of fields...including graphic designers and moviemakers. So, you'll find an incredible variety of textures available. Furthermore, you can download some many textures in small versions for free. For a yearly fee of $76, you can download larger files and tileable versions.<br />Look for more information and a video on how to utilize this amazing resour</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">ce in my next newsletter.</span>Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-75347452931127575142013-08-20T09:26:00.002-07:002013-08-20T09:26:15.223-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I'm really excited about one of the latest and greatest SketchUp books. It's called Rendering in SkechUp by Daniel Tal...and comes in at a whopping 640 pages. That is a lot of incredible info from one of the masters. And unbelievably, i</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">t's under $30 at Amazon. At that price, it needs to be in your library, if only to browse at the lovely pictures.<br /><br />Feel overwhelmed? As usual, I'll be distilling the best tips from it for my rendering classes.<br /><br />Great review at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fland8.com%2Fprofiles%2Fblogs%2Fbook-review-rendering-in-sketchup-by-daniel-tal&h=VAQFBR8wz&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://land8.com/profiles/blogs/book-review-rendering-in-sketchup-by-daniel-tal</a><br /><br />Order the book at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rendering-SketchUp-Presentation-Architecture-Landscape/dp/047064219X" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Rendering-SketchUp-Presentation-Architecture-Landscape/dp/047064219X</a></span><br />
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</span>Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-34059699096956775112013-07-25T10:52:00.001-07:002013-07-25T10:52:40.013-07:00<b>Great Free Online Classes at Creative Live</b><br />
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Do you know about Creative Live? They offer online classes for creative folks. If you catch them on release, they're also free and have some great content. They do have a lot of photography classes, but look past those for some great marketing / business / digital tool classes also. I'm looking forward to an upcoming Photoshop class in August.<br />
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Check it out: <a href="http://www.creativelive.com/courses/painting-photoshop-jack-davis">http://www.creativelive.com/courses/painting-photoshop-jack-davis</a>Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-21274276140134528952013-07-16T17:29:00.004-07:002013-07-16T17:29:36.091-07:00SketchUp Sage<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">SketchUp Sage </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This is one of the premier SketchUp sites which has hundreds of posts, tips, lessons, help forumns, and links to everything you need to know. I'm linking to the Tips and Tricks page on the site...which could keep you delighted for hours, but check out all the tabs for great information. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Find it at </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/tips-tricks" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/tips-tricks</a><br />
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like the default SketchUp style. You can use SketchUp's Style Palette to customize
your SketchUp models. Or you can go one step farther and bring the images
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probably saying, "but wait...I don't have several thousand dollars to
spend on another program". The good news is that you have all the
tools you need in Photoshop's consumer version of the program, called Photoshop
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Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-44485976274427944892012-09-25T15:36:00.000-07:002012-09-25T15:36:17.409-07:00Sketchup for Interior DesignersSee3D's latest Sketchup class is tailored specifically for interior designers. We take a look at specific tools for the design trade. We'll layout spaces on screen or from a floor plan, learn how to add furniture and materials, and talk about kitchen design. As always, we'll cover best practices for drawing with Sketchup, Styles and Shadows, moving around in Sketchup and creating dimensioned and presentation drawings. Our first class is already underway for members of NWSID, but look for an additional class in the next month.Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-10776979432039289282012-09-12T14:57:00.001-07:002012-09-13T07:39:59.658-07:00Photo Book<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab" height="425" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/slideshow-ui.swf"/><param name="flashvars" value="configXMLURL=http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/config/config-share.xml&slideshowModuleURL=http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/slideshow-module.swf&projectGUID=8EbtnDNm0bk4s&swfName=slideshowFlashContent&showReplay=true"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><embed width="425" height="425" align="middle" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="wrapper" quality="best" menu="false" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="configXMLURL=http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/config/config-share.xml&slideshowModuleURL=http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/slideshow-module.swf&projectGUID=8EbtnDNm0bk4s&swfName=slideshowFlashContent&showReplay=true" src="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/slideshow-ui.swf"></embed></object><br />
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<br />Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6726959387805483753.post-40788302949805219222011-10-28T17:19:00.000-07:002011-10-28T17:19:55.816-07:00So, how do we this?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>Diane Dieterichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00828111813996833783noreply@blogger.com0