When not working with SketchUp, I enjoy playing soccer and spending time with my wife and our two dogs. I started The SketchUp Essentials as a place to share easy to follow SketchUp tutorials and tips to help everyone harness the power of 3D Modeling in their lives.
I started using SketchUp as part of my work as a general contractor in I quickly realized the power of the software and started using it for personal projects. Using these interchangeably will allow you great control over the tubes you create. These 2 extensions are designed for creating tubes and paths around lines. This extension has a slightly high learning curve, and an unforgiving workflow, but when it works, it allows for the creation of fantastic new shapes. This extension allows you to deform objects along a given shape. However, with this extension, you can have much greater control over your selections, allowing you to do things like select only faces, or select only lines, or many other selection options. Trying to select and de-select complex geometry can be frustrating. This tool allows both the creation of arc lines, but also tubes along a helix. SketchUp comes built in with several arc tools, but none of them are very good at drawing curves that arc along both vertical and horizontal directions at once. This extension bends shapes along curves, allowing you to create interesting variations of shapes 7.
It will create faces between multiple geometric shapes, as well as the skinning option allows the creation of skins across multiple lines. This extension changes that, allowing you to not only push pull curved surfaces, but also to push pull multiple faces at once! This extension is designed to create skins using contours. This extension allows you to geometrically transform your objects in a number of ways, including scaling, twisting, bending, and rotating. There are several different options for this, including rounding your edges and beveling your edges. This extension allows you to round the edges of 3D shapes. This is great for creating organic type shapes.
In this video, I walk you through my 10 favorite free SketchUp plugins and extensions from So Far! These commisions help me offset the cost of running the SketchUp Essentials, so if you do end up purchasing, thank you very much! This extension allows you to create a skin across various edges.