A film explaining the benifits and advantages from going from the free version of SketchUp to the Pro version.

I’m often asked what are the advatages of paying for SketchUp when there is a free version and this short film explains far better than I ever could in such a short time.

Paul

This is a national programme in ALL regions (excluding Wales & Scotland) and will be running for 3 years. The eligibility criteria is the organisation must manufacture – or have a clear link to manufacture, and be an SME (less than 249 employees, turnover of less than 43 million euros, not owned by a larger group to push them over this level). The grant will cover training and consultancy, on and off site, Scheduled courses are not covered, unless they are privately arranged and the eligible company is the only attending company. Continue Reading →

Grant Update January 2012

NATIONALLY CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

This is a national programme in ALL regions (excluding Wales & Scotland) and will be running for 3 years. The eligibility criteria is they must manufacture – or have a clear link to manufacture, and be an SME (less than 249 employees, turnover of less than 43 million euros, not owned by a larger group to push them over this level). The grant will cover training and consultancy, on and off site, Scheduled courses are not covered, unless they are privately arranged and the eligible company is the only attending company. Continue Reading →

Google SketchUp Training and Help

Government Training Grants

We now have a small network of SketchUp professionals who are willing to work with companies who are just starting to develop their skills with SketchUp. They will work alongside your existing staff on current projects guiding and at the same time teaching you staff how to work with SketchUp. They can also advise on various plug-ins and show how the link up with Google Earth works.

We feel that having a professional work alongside you on a real project is the best way for you to learn SketchUp. We are therefore happy to facilitate this new development.

If it’s just training that you need, then dates are posted on the right of this page for Winchester, but off site training is available for either SketchUp or TurboCAD or a combination of both.

At present there are there are lots of government funded schemes that will pay a substantial percentage, if not all, of your training needs. Applying for these grants is easy because someone else does all the paperwork for you. Under the heading Training on the right of this page is a link to Free CAD Training. Here you will find the contact details of Leanne Hindle, who will explain to you just how and how much help you can get for you training needs.

Paul

01962 835 081

Below is a new knock out film showing Google SketchUp at work. There’s no words, it’s totally visual and really impressive. Right at the end of the film are links to several other Google products including Flight Search and a couple of interesting ones about Google Earth’s projects.

From time to time I’m asked about creating a Bill of Materials. As the majority of what I do is helping people with one offs it’s not an area that I often deal with. I have made a short film posted on YouTube explaining the basics of creating reports, (below), but that’s about it as far as that area is concerned.
However, Don Cheke has now created a tutorial showing how to produce a Bill of Materials using TurboCAD Professional v18. It is a PDF download and costs around £25. For a link to Don’s site, Textual Creations, where you can download the first few pages to sample, click on the link to the right of this panel. (Under Professionals)

Paul

The link below will give you access to the manual for v18.

TurboCAD Manual v18

I have recently made five new films introducing working in 3D which are posted on youtube.

Click here to go direct to them.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be making more for those new to 3D.

Paul

Animation Lab Sale

I have about a dozen copies of Animation Lab which works with TurboCAD Professional versions 15 and 16. These were original about £180, but I’m happy to let these last go for £40 each.

Call if interested, 01962 835 081.

Paul

As I spend a fair bit of time explaining the role of Google SketchUp to people that have only a vague idea of the package, I thought I’d provide a few links here to show its capabilities. These are mostly high end users, although the video ‘Create Cool Stuff’ shows you the application used to design a simple CD rack.
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Photorealistic Plug-in for Google SketchUp

There must be a dozen different photorealistic plug-ins for Google SketchUp. I’ve seen some demonstrated, listened to people talk about the one(s) that they use and played around with a few myself. So I can’t say that my opinion on the general landscape of these plug-ins is anyway perfect, but I do need to showcase photorealistic solutions for my SketchUp colleagues, so I’ve made a decision on what seems to me the best three. I could be wrong, I’ve been wrong before, but the three that I’ve chosen are all ones that I have seen working and are impressed with. They are also ones that I hear professionals talk about and praise. Continue Reading →