From there you can do energy, carbon, daylight and solar analysis, or take this model with all this info to your favourite BIM software.
The second plugin was developed by Integrated Enviromental Solutions, which lets you assign important sustainable design information like location, building and room type, construction types and HVAC systems to your Sketchup model.
You can download Soap Skin & Bubbles for free on their website, and also watch a video tutorial on The Sketchup Show. But you can still play around with tensile structures on this plugin. The author has also been developing a plugin for tensile structures, but it hasn’t been released yet. The first one is Soap Skin & Bubbles, a plugin designed by german engineer Josef Leibinger, designed to help you in the study of mechanically and pneumatically strained surfaces. Below, two plugins I have found very useful, and also available for free. You can enable several options available on the free standard version, or go pro for more. But being simple and fast doesn’t mean it lacks on features. Google acquired this software in order to crowd-source the 3D modeling of the earth, since anyone can use it to model their house, school or favourite building. (You could skip straight from step 5 to 8, ignoring 6 & 7, if you prefer.Sketchup is, by far, the easiest tool for modeling. pull the roof model into your building model in SU2015.save the roof model as a SketchUp file (v 2015).save the roof model as a SketchUp file (v 2008).delete the building, leaving only the roof.create the roof using the free InstantRoof extension.There were a few small places where the import had gotten things messed up (not as bad in the kmz export as in the COLLADA export), but it basically worked. I exported it from SU2015 and imported it into SU2008. lots of geometry) that I have been working on. (I had to tweak the result a bit, because it was slightly off at the intersections of gables, but it saved me a ton of time.) I was intrigued by your question, because I have used InstantRoof (the free version) and I found it very useful.
(If you are looking for a ZIP, you need to type “ *.zip” in the filename box and hit enter, so they will be displayed, instead of just “ *.rbz” files.)Ĭhoose the plugin archive to install, and click the OK button.
On the lower left of the panel, is a “ Install Extension …” button, click it.Ī file browser panel opens, with your “Libraries” group open.Įxpand “ Documents” > “ Downloads”, and choose the rbz archive. Window (menu) > Preferences (dialog) > Extensions (panel) (It usually goes into your user “Downloads” folder accessible from your “Libraries” group in Explorer.) You download a ZIP or RBZ (which is just a renamed ZIP archive,) in the normal way.
It can automatically install and later uninstall or update extensions. You’ll just need to sign in from inside SketchUp, when the Extension Warehouse WebDialog opens. Since you have created an account here, you have an account there as well. The Trimble SketchUp Extension Warehouse is integrated with SketchUp. At the bottom, in the “Privilege Level” group, check “Run this program as an administrator.” Right click the program shortcut(s) and choose “Properties”. SketchUp should itself be run “As Administrator”. You right-click the installer, and “Run as administrator.” SketchUp (and most all applications,) need to be installed by running installers with elevated privileges. Ok, you are using Win7 32bit on your laptop ?