Beautiful Projects: Design It Shelter Competition Winners

The Design It Shelter Competition: This is the kind of enjoyable, personal architecture that gives people the chance to express their interests and really display original ideas and design flair. Well done to David Mares of Portugal and David Eltang of Denmark for some neat projects.

2D CAD dies tragically

2D CAD passed away tragically on 22nd September 2009. SketchUp 7.1 is implicated in it's death, as just about all of the advantages of 2D CAD are now adequately handled by LayOut 2.1. So long buddy. Say hello to Dot Matrix and Punchcard for us willya?

Watching Real life on Google Earth

Found this video on Digitalurban.blogspot. Very nice concept indeed. I was just thinking recently how beneficial it would be to have a webcam on a building site to monitor progress on a job. This is taking things a whole lot further.... Some people will not like the idea of being "watched" but as evident in this video, it's possible to make the live information anonymous. Comments very welcome.

Dublin now on Google Earth

We're delighted to see such activity relating to an Irish city on Google Earth. Well done to all contributors to this fine collection of models. Lets have the same thing for Cork! Please let us know who's interested in a coordinated project to get Cork City on GE.

Main contributors: The Picture Works, City Trip Dublin, and others....

Inflatable Church in Germany

This is certainly a departure from traditional construction technology. Will it catch on? Found it on creatustercero.blogspot.com where there are a lot of interesting videos and other things...

Thinking of buying the Space Navigator for SketchUp?.. Under review

We are currently reviewing this product. More details soon.....

Ultimate control for your SketchUp drawing!!!!

Powerful Layer Control so that you can dictate instantly:

1. what you want to see, and
2. what you don't want to see

at the touch of a button and return to these settings instantly with this free plugin: (Click image for link)




Only shortcoming: I have to keep clicking View> Toolbar> Layer Manager every time I open SketchUp in order to see the toolbar. Hopefully this will be fixed- or maybe I'm doing something wrong! Anyway this is a massive plugin so our grateful thanks to Didier Bur.

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