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catchupsketchUcation community newsletter

OCTOBER 201214th EDITION

www.sketchUcation.com

Artisan 1.2What’s new in the latest

update to SketchUp’s only sculpting toolset

CubifyWhy 3D Systems are

looking to put a printer in every home

FreebiesLatest uploads shared

on SketchUcation

sketchUcation.com v2.0shop

gallery news premium training tutorials

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CURvES TO FLATS04 Learn to use CurviLoft for difficult geometry tranisitions. Masterclass from Massimo Siracusa.

ARTISAN UpDATE10 What’s new in Artisan. A look at the new features in Dale Martens latest update.

SLINgShOT14 Mike Lucey looks at Slingshot. A smartphone accessory for .

MEMBER FREEBIES22 Latest uploads. What members are sharing on the forums.

SkETChUCATION II16 The ins and outs of what’s new. Csaba poszarko walks you through the changes.

CUBIFy AT hOME28 A 3D Printer in every home. Mike Lucey’s take on Cubify’s push for home printing.

After a hectic few weeks

SketchUcation got suited and

booted! We spent the last 9

months secretly rebuilding

the site from the ground up to

give members something more

than a forum.

But the surprises do not stop

there. We have all manner of

goodies to reveal in the coming

months and we are super

excited about SketchUation’s

future. More about that later.

It’s business as usual in this

edition. More of the same with

reviews, previews and tip ‘n’

tricks.

Enjoy! See you at Basecamp!

you like?

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Massimo Siracusa

Joining curved surfaces to flat surfaces

Italian architect and forum regular Massimo

Siracusa shares a technique he used while

modeling this hans Wegner Oak sideboard.

To accomplish this you will need Fredo’s

CurviLoft plugin and RoundCorner plugin and be

familiar with SketchUp’s arraying modifiers.

The process uses CurviLoft’s ‘Loft By Spline’

tool with the ‘Spline Method’ set to ‘Junction

by Orthogonal Eliptical Curves’.

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here you can see the issue we

have. We need to bridge from

the curved leg to the flat face.

What increases the complexity

in this process is when we add

bevels to the flat face.

Luckily Curivloft makes this a

3 click operation.

Firstly, move a copy of the top

curve downwards and draw a

line across the flat face. This is

to locate the start and end point

of the transition.

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Now select the 2 outer

edges on the flat face and use

RoundCorner to set the bevel

distance and segment number.

In this example I used a

segment count of 4 but you can

use whatever is needed.

Draw edges as shown here

to isolate this area from the

remainder of the model.

Select the area marked in

orange and group it. By grouping

you effectively cut the geometry

from the surrounging area but

leave the perimeter edge intact.

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Delete the group to be left with

only the perimeter edges. It is in

this area that the bridging will

occur.

Select the edges as shown

here. These are the melding

profiles we need for the lofting

procedure.

Make sure you have all of both

profiles selected before con-

tinuing.

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Using the first icon on

CurviLoft we will loft between

the profiles.

Ensure the ‘Junction be

Orthogonal Eliptical

Curves’ method is selected.

Commit the result and

imediately explode the resulting

group to intersect it with the

surrounding area.

Now simply draw an edge

to fill the hole and remove any

unwanted geometry.

A very difficult task made

simple with CurviLoft.

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I used this technique extensively

during the modeling of this hans

Wegner piece. There were lots of

areas that needed complex geometry

and without CurviLoft it would have

proved to be a very time consuming

task.

hope you enjoyed this little

tutorial.

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Rich O’Brien

Artisan v1.2 - What’s new?

Late last month Dale Martens released an update to SketchUp’s only sculpting tool - Artisan. What’s

really impressive about this update is the number of new and improved features that have been

addressed. For those that are not familiar with Artisan it is an organic modeling toolset which was

reviewed in CatchUp Edition 1.

What is immediately obvious is the speed improvement. Sculpting now occurs much quicker than

in the previous version which had a tendency to lag on dense meshes. It now absolutely blasts through

meshes where it previously struggled. There is also a new feature to the sculpting brush called ‘Aut-

Smooth’ that performs a smoothing operation to your sculpted area on release of the mouse. Below

you can see the difference between a sculpt with Auto-Smooth off (left) and Auto-smooth on (right).

you can now use the ShIFT key while in Sculpt mode to constrain the direction vertically while

sculpting and while in Flatten mode the the SHIFT key will constrain the flattening operation hori-

zontally. Both of these are key features that add another level of control and increase prductivity time.

In the previous release sculpting and flattening always occured towards the face you were hovering

over.

“It now absolutely blasts through meshes”

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A brand new tool to Artisan v1.2 is the Vertex Scale tool. If you are already using Thomas Thomas-

sen’s vertex Tools then you know what a great addition this is in Artisan. Is there a difference? Not

really, but there is no harm in being spoilt for choice. What has changed is significantly is the workflow.

In this update you no longer need to pre-select any geometry prior to activating any of Artisan’s vertex

related tools. you simply click and set the distance and you can move, rotate and scale as needed.

Some other trickery that has been added to both the Smooth and Flatten modes is you can now

control the strength similar to sculpting mode. The added bonus is that negative strength value in

Smooth mode creates a jitter effect (right) and in Flatten mode it applies sharp peaks and valleys (left).

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“. . .sculpt, flatten and smooth to get perfect results. . .”

Finally, the Crease tool got some added functionality. previously if you wanted to crease an area

you had to manually pick each vertex and edge that needed to be locked into position. Now there is

a really quick method accessed from the Tools menu called Crease Selection. What this means is

you can now define an area that you need to work on with the Select Brush, group it and then pick

from various creasing options. Below you can see how this can be used to great effect when you need

to grade terrain. Because the outer most edges are locked to the surrounding terrain you can sculpt,

flatten and smooth knowing you will get the perfect results.

Overall, these latest additions strengthen Artisan’s

already powerful toolset. The productivity time is now

much higher and the new strength controls for Smooth

and Flatten give you much more precision. It is worth

checking the youTube video that showcases all these

new features and downloading the trial to give it a try!

As an added bonus Artisan is now discounted by 25% to only $29 for a limited time.

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Mike Lucey

Slingshot

This month’s gadget, for a change, can be used with quite a number of

smartphones, not just the iPhone. I first noticed the Slingshot on kickstarter

and quickly pledged my $14 as I thought Charles Waugh was definitely onto

something that was not already on the market. The Slingshot is a well thought

out and clever design that does three jobs, it acts as a stabiliser, a handy tripod and a

steady viewer stand. It’s lightweight and fits easily into a pouch or even a largish

coat pocket.

I received my Slingshot a few days ago and have been using it on a regular basis and I will continue

to do so for quite some time as the construction is much better than I had expected at the selling price.

The Slingshot is made from acetal resin, which is a super-tough material, that can bend and stretch

enough to accommodate the iPhone easily or even the much larger Galaxy models. The top

cradle holds the phone and this screws into the handle. It can also be screwed into a standard tripod

mount. The cradle can be twisted on a ball joint and set to a suitable angle for hand-held shooting

of pictures or videos, also the user can flip out a pair of vestigial legs to turn the device into a mini

tabletop tripod which is quite stable even with the phone at a 45 degree plus angle.

It is possible to have your iphone connected to the dock cable while using the Slingshot as the cradle

sides are open, quite useful when using the device for steaming vedeos and such. I can

highly recommend the Slingshot, even at its current $19.95. I have only one

quibble. It only accommodates the iphone or other device in a landscape mode.

I contacted the inventor during the kickstarter phase and suggested that he

consider adapting the Slingshot to hold phones in both portrait and landscape

and he thought it was a good idea but I imagine he

was too far advanced with production to modify

the design. Maybe Slingshot v2 will do this!

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Csaba poszarko

A “New home” – SketchUcation 2.0 is out!

. . . .out with the old. . .

All those who became members of SketchUca-

tion in 2007 – when google closed the “old” @

Last forums - can remember the beginnings. A

phpBB forum software which was in “Beta” at the

time and later not compatible with the official

Release Candidate. A friendly atmosphere

where the initial members were trying to revive

something of the defunct @Last forums while

also seeking a “New home”. This was the birth of

the “SketchUcation Community” that carried

on the original “SketchUp Community” and

still strives to do so after five years.

Since then, the SketchUcation Community

has grown up – and grown big. We had the first

1,000 members in the first three months – now

we have another 1,000 members about every

5 days! The whole forums and the “site” did

not change much “technically” during the years

though. We had started a “News” section, an ATC

programme, some Book Sales but the overall

feeling and the technical solutions were still just

like at the beginning.

. . .in with the new. . . .

Now the time has arrived to renew every-

thing. We decided to step ahead, organize what

knowledge, shared materials and content that

have accumulated on the forums and integrate it

into a brand new CMS site (powered by Joomla)

and a completely revamped community forum.

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The work effectively started in February (prior

to the “Trimble announcement”) and our initial

goals – upgrading the forums to the latest, most

modern and secure release, updating our old

forum template to be able to handle all the new

features in the latest phpBB release – and last

but not least, develop a site where these forums

and membership can be integrated – were soon

accomplished. Nevertheless we became more

“adventurous” during the process and wanted

to create some stunning, new features that can

ensure the ongoing, long term functionality and

allow constant development of SketchUcation as

well as allow members to be much more involved

in content development.

The forums now also boast several new

features:

➙ Multiple attachment uploading

➙ new, richer post editor (e.g. easier video embedding)

➙ “solved topic” marking

➙ light-box integration for images both attached and externally embedded

➙ “quick reply” without reloading the page for a short, unformatted reply

➙ easier and faster post moderation of newly registered members

➙ who knows what else have been added and broken functions fixed.

The “Community” feature has been extended

to the content management system, too. As a

first step, we have added a Community gallery

showcasing the most stunning images posted on

the forums – we shall constantly add both older

submissions and newer gems. For Community

development, we also started to work on a new

“Networking” system but this is still behind the

curtains. Be prepared however and watch our

news blog to be informed about it.

Our Resources section will also grow in time.

We have already “migrated” some tutorials from

the forums into an easy to browse section and

are working on a system where external authors

(our most knowledgeable members) can also

add their own tutorials extremely easily and

quickly – all “html formatting” made automatic.

Of course, we still have a lot to develop under

“Resources” – collecting, organizing, sharing,

maintaining, updating all valuable data from the

forums as well as from all over the Internet. This

work will never finish but hopefully grow into

an unbeatable collection.

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There is one area or our “Resources” that has

not yet changed: we still use our “old” list of

plugins in a forum sticky topic (thanks to Jim

Foltz for maintaining it). This will also change

– the upcoming BaseCamp will allow us to talk

to some of our most active plugin authors and

“brainstorm” some ideas on the functionality

and features of a complete Plugin Index

of all related SketchUp plugins. By the time

you are reading this article, we may well have

laid down the basic guide lines we are going to

work on.

There are two more, major, new features on the

site: Premium membership and our brand

new Shop where our members can sell (or freely

distribute) their creations. This was the most

sensitive goal we set ourselves. SketchUcation’s

vibrant growing community is the backbone of

what makes the place special. We were never

going to compromise that.

What we set out to create is a new ecosystem of

content delivery that’s 100% SketchUp related.

We also wanted to attract the very best SketchUp

users so members can immediately know they

are getting only the best quality. It started last

year with our trial site - books.sketchucation.com

- and slowly evolved from there. It soon became

apparent that SketchUcation members love to

learn from expert users. We were inundated with

requests to grow the store and we have!

We took some time and built a framework

that delivered the great content from talented

SketchUp users at incredible value for members.

you can find out about the benefits of Premium

membership on our new site and see why it is an

exciting new direction for SketchUcation.

premium membership is essentially a means

of professionals accessing the best content,

the best support and the best resources whilst

availing of 20% discounts on everything. We are

also working to get 3rd party plugin developers

involved so premium members can get those

upcoming goodies at the lowest prices around.

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If you browse the store you will

see the type of content members are

currently offering. From Oli Shea’s

stunning hDRI pack and Tree Line

pack to Alvydas Litvinas’ incredible

furniture collection.

We’ve also partnered with Massimo

Siracusa and David hier, two leading

SketchUp 3D artists, to provide ex-

ceptional SketchUp Models and Dave

Richards is the master of SketchUp

Styles.

you can click any of the opposite

images to see the kind of content that

is available. If you are interested in

finding out more about the store you

can contact us for details.

This is a radical change for SketchU-

cation but one we are excited about.

So thank you to all the members that

helped out over the last few months your

input and direction was invaluable.

yours,

SketchUcation Team

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Our resident scripting genius TIg recently dropped 2

great little plugins called Cut to plane and Split to plane.

They are only compatible with SketchUp 8 Pro

because it utilizes the new Solid Tools feature. grab Cut

to plane and Split to plane from the forums.

you can click the image above to watch a tutorial on youTube showing both tools in action. If view

this article online then you can go here to view the video.

Don’t forget to show your appreciation by either donating via paypal or just saying thanks on the

forums.

Rich O’Brien

Cut/Split to plane for SketchUp 8 pro

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Alexander Skoluda, gus Robatto & Leo Breault

Free Lamps, Tables and Appliances

Alexander Skoluda shared this awesome Corail

table lamp by Jaques Charles. Modelled in less

than 35 minutes using only photos for reference it

is a worthy addition to any collection.

Members are already having fun rendering with

this beautiful image from Urgen.

Leo Breault, a furniture maker, shared ten

exquisite pieces from coffee tables to desks. These

are really high quality models and Leo deserves a

very big ‘Thank You’ for such a contribution.

you can download the collection by visiting the

Furniture Models thread.

Finally, gus Robatto shared this range of gE

Monogram appliances that you are free to use for

personal or commercial work.

Another collection of extremely high quality

models.

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Rich O’Brien

keyframe Animation 1.8 - What’s New?

When it comes to animating objects in SketchUp nothing comes close to keyFrame Animation.

It was reviewed in CatchUp Edition 4 and early last month Regular polygon quietly pushed out an

update with a significant new feature - you can now animate an objects size!

Simply put, any change in the scale of an object will now be interpolated between key frames. This

means the scaling can be uniform, or non-uniform and you are able to combine a translation and a

scaling, so that an object moves and changes size at the same time.

Rotations and scaling can also be combined if you rotate and scale about the same point. This allows

for a myriad of different animations to now be exported directly from SketchUp using KeyFrame Ani-

mation’s Tweens tools. Watch this check test below which shows the various animations you can now

achieve with the new feature.

you can buy keyFrame Animation in our plugin Store and premium Members get a 20% discount.

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Mike Lucey

ArchiDRAW - preview

I’ve been on the lookout for a versatile drawing app for the ipad for some time. I’ve tried out quite a

few but none to date have stuck. The apps I have tried have been either too basic or over complicated

and tiring to use. Maybe I expect all drawing apps to be fun because of what SketchUp delivers. This

may however be about to change with ArchiDraw from Orange Juice Studios

The app is not yet available but the web site reads well and teases with

some innovative drawing features that are to be part of ArchiDraw. We

are advised the application is being built on an OpenGL platform

that will fully harnesses the power of the ipad. The London based de-

velopment team, Vim, an Engineer and Az,an Architect, feel that

there will be no competition when it comes to performance!

I understand that what was originally intended as a floor plan app is

now being developed as a fully-fledged 2D CAD application. This

is due to the feedback the developers were receiving. I imagine once

they found themselves half way down the road they decided to go the

full mile!

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Some of the feature that interest me are:

The virtual Mouse! This is a patent pending input method that will eliminate the

problem of one’s finger getting in the way and will offer unprecedented accuracy

the developers tell us. While the developers advise that the app will have the ability

to export / import popular file formats, they currently only mention DXF. I

hope they shake-hands with SketchUp, however time will tell.

The ‘Free Draw’ feature sounds very interest. Seemingly the app will allow the user

to ‘scribe shapes’ with one’s digit and ArchiDraw will interpret these into geometric

shapes and walls! I’ve used this process in SmartSketch some years ago and liked the

process, very intuitive indeed. The application will also draw walls, windows and

doors parametrically, another plus!

The developers are also now providing video updates on YouTube. The first, ‘ArchiDraw the new

standard for CAD on the iPAD : Development Update 1’ can be seen below, just click.

I hope to be testing ArchiDraw shortly and will be advising of my experience on SketchUcation, so

stay tuned, it could well be the ‘missing link’, a powerful yet simple to use 2D CAD app that many of us

have been seeking for the ipad.

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Mike Lucey

3D printer in every home

A 3D printer in every home! This would

appear to be the current business plan for many

3D printer manufactures. A few short years ago

this objective might have seemed optimistically

unrealistically but today it is very much on the

cards and I feel a personal 3D printer will be

as commonplace as a home computer and

multipurpose printer is presently.

When 3D printers became the buzz word a few

years ago we were looking at, out of price range

for many, high end commercial 3D printers

aimed at large architectural, engineering and

product design firms, costing tens of thousands

but today the story is quite different. We now are

seeing quite a range of DIy 3D printers coming

on the market from small startup firms and now

some of the larger players like, 3D Systems,

are getting in on the act with well built low cost

turn-key 3D printers like the WiFi Cube 3D

printer.

The competition is hotting up! The large man-

ufactures want to put a 3D printer in every home

but the obstacle is how to ‘sell the idea’ to people.

The key could be offering a concept. Manufac-

tures are showing people why they would want

a 3D printer and how they would actually put it

to productive use. 3D printers are able to make

all sorts of objects and the manufactures are

expanding the possibilities on a daily basis, but

the manufacturer needs to convince the

consumers that they need to have one in

their home.

Cubify is pioneering this approach offering

many different ways for the home user and their

kids to interact with their 3D printers. Cubify’s

Toy Robot templates is aimed at children, both

young and old.

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This idea reminds me of the story of the child

that got more of a kick out of playing with the

large cardboard box that the toy came in rather

than the actual toy! Imagination was sparked and

the large cardboard box became many things, a

car, a fire engine, a house. I think 3D printing of

toys for / with the child generates much the same

experience as they can easily customise the toys,

with Dad or Mom’s help of course initially ;-)

The way Cubify works this is by offering toy

templates with various colour options at

99 cents each. Once the set-ups are completed

the child watches the 3D printer create their

custom toy. The basic Cubify 3D printer package

includes all that is needed, $1299 for the Cube (3D

Printer) and $49 for Cubify Invent (application).

Once the template is purchased the users can

3D print as often as they wish using different

colours. Also there are many robots in the series

and the individual robot parts are interchange-

able. This allows for the child to use their imagi-

nation, most important, as this will lead to cre-

ativity and hopefully original designs over time.

I don’t have any young children these days to

encourage into 3D printing however I do have a

wife that collects shoes like they are going

out of fashion! I am now wondering if it would

be safe for me to have a 3D printer in the house

as it may well be commandeered for production

of 3D printed shoes! I have no idea how com-

fortable these shoes would be but they certainly

are eye-catching to say the least and they might

work out a lot cheaper than the designer shoes so

maybe the commandeering would not be so bad

after all ;-)

Not all 3D printed content is low cost. The

beautiful Lightnest light fitting by Freedom Of

Creation costing $599 is obviously in demand

also some of the high fashion items are fetching

reasonably high prices.

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Content like this is what will ‘sell the idea’ to

the home user and consumers in general both

young and old in order create a demand for the

home 3D printer. For those of us (readers of

CATCHUP) that know we can simply create a 3D

object using SketchUp and many other applica-

tions already are ‘up to speed’ with the process,

however in order for the average consumer

to ‘get it’, there needs to be databases of useful

objects that they can pick from and watch as these

objects materialise on their sideboards. Once the

concept is grasped by general consumers they

can move on to making their own objects, maybe

a required plastic part for a broken household

item etc etc. This could bring back the ‘fix it’

age that existed before the current ‘throw

away’ age we currently live in, no bad thing! At

this stage the personal household 3D printer will

quickly become a standard commonplace item.

Cubify obviously is aiming to create a 3D

printing industry around their products and their

group of Cubify Artists! They are encouraging

users to become Cubify Artists and the process

is quite straightforward. It simply involves

creating a standard account and once the first 3D

printable model is uploaded the user’s status is

changed to ‘Artist’. When you become an artist,

you can upload more 3D printable models for

royalty sharing. you can manage your uploads

and store / showcase your designs by using your

account dashboard.

Its free to become a Cubify Artist and you get

60% royalty on sales. There are no contracts to

sign, no fees to list products, and no monthly

or hosting fees of any kind. They have a good

anti-fraud system in place that protects your

creations at all times. After reaching certain

uploading and sales milestones, you earn Cubify

badges that will elevate your presence within the

Cubify community. If you load a STL 3D model

format, Cubify staff reviews your model and

works with you to get to a “3D printable” state.

Once that certification is achieved, your model

can be submitted by buyers to be 3D printed.

You then benefit from an additional 5% royalty

stream every time the model is submitted to

their 3D printing Service.

Yes indeed, as I said, I can definitely see a 3D

printing industry building up on Cubify and I

would not be surprised to see many SketchU-

cation members becoming some of its leading

Artists!

“. . .bring back the ‘fix-it’ age that existed before the ‘throw-away’ age. . .”

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Construction models are built to communicate, manage, explain, and document the construction. As the model is assembled it is used to simulate sequences and think through different approaches in the production process, but once the model is complete, it becomes a visual resource for change order, process illustrations, and graphic explanations. This makes it impor-tant to be able to label and annotate images exported from the model to manage the construction.

Once the Font style is set up, select the Text Tool from the Tools Menu

Check to make sure you are on a text layer so you can control visibility from Scene to Scene

Click to start arrowhead and drag out the leader

Click Option to change resolution

Recommend75 pixel minimum1000 pixel maximum

Double click to select the text and rename the leader label

Use the Shift key with the Return key to enter a new line of text

Double-click in model space to add text without a leaderUse the Move tool to

move text and leader together

To move just the arrowhead, Click the arrowhead again with the Text Tool

Be sure to turn off Layer visibility when you reposition the model

Use Scenes with vis-ibility preferences to return to a viewpoint and Text Tool

A text box ap-pears with the object name

Add a separate layer for the text and mak-ing it active for each new label

Click the Fonts button in the Model Info > Text dialog box to set up the font you want to use for model labels

Select Export and 2D graphic from the File Menu

Then use the pull down menu to select the file type and Save

Leader Line settings include arrow heads types

Only one font type and style can be used in the same model

Graphic Export and Annotations - Step 13

Label and Export in SketchUp

Export from SketchUp

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NOTE: Scribus is more complex open source desktop publishing program for specifications and booklets

Open source programs are maintained by a group of users and are generally free to download and use. The most versatile of these programs is the OpenOffice Suite, including a text editor, drawing/drafting, and a presentation program that quickly creates prints, slides, and web pages from exported model images.

Click the presentation icon to start the setup wizard

Start a new presenta-tion with no back-ground and set it up for print or Slide

Click to Create a new file, then use the Insert

Menu to add pages

Use the graph-ics Layout to

add a title and comments

Right click to access Context

Menu and editing tools

Floating textbox arranged

by Stacking Order Tool

Click the Line Tool icon to ac-cess the Line dialog box

Selection, drawing, and textbox tools for comments and markups

Line, Rectangle, and Oval edit-ing tools

Bubble and symbols for emphasis

Exporting from SketchUpPumper OperationScene Sequencing

Select a single or multiple slides to Export from the File Menu

pull-down menu to select several export file formats

Menu changes with object selected

Thumbnail preview

Click to add titles and text

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party Time. . . .If you are lucky enough to attend Basecamp and are in the Boulder area on Sunday 14th please stop

by the Baker Street grill at 8pm as there will be a get together to break the ice prior to the big event.

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