Rendering Software in Cadalyst Magazine Review

Al Hart

The July issue of Cadalyst magazine did a review of rendering software and included IRender for SketchUp.

Take a look: http://management.cadalyst.com/cadman/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=438871&&pageID=6

juju

Thx for the heads-up Al! Congrats on being included in the review.

Krisidious

that is awesome Al congrats man...

Al Hart

Thanks Kristoff and JuJu.

I wish that SketchUp itself were getting more press. My personal opinion is that Google is not doing much to promote SketchUp as a 3D Design engine (outside of the Google Earth and mapping community).

Al Hart

astrat

I totally agree with you Al.

While there has been great press about it's use with Earth ... and with the architectural design community .. there really has not been much focus on the "sub - markets" such as woodworking/cabinetmaking/cnc.

Needless to say I'm a bit biased because of the work I do but it really is a shame that people in markets such as mine don't have any focus and/or central discussion point. The frapping "groups" concept just plain sucks to me.

A perfect example is your 3dpdf program. I just happened across the program. I've shown my outputs to several cabinet makers around the country and they are going nuts over it !! I simply "stumbled" upon your product by accident. You would think that Google ( not unlike Autocad ) would at least create a listing of add-on programs by potential market segment served !!

It's almost like Google bought SU as means to push "earth" and more ad clicks !!

astrat

sorgesu

Actually Google does have a list of partners on their partners pages.

They're too busy to go scouting I think. It is up to the individual company to contact Google and ASK to be inclued on that page. Hint, Hint.

sorgesu

Al Hart

There is also a listing on the SketchUp downloads page: http://www.sketchup.com/?sid=37

This was finally updated last week. I sent them updated information on RPS products in February, but the new page was delayed - apparently because they wanted to study some legal problems.

I sent them updates on RPS products again last week, and they are supposed to update the page. As soon as they do, I plan to start a new thread (with a more appropriate title then this one) to let other people know about the plugins page. (We have renamed and consolidated some products, so the new listings will help send people in the right direction.)

Currently, there is no way to find this page unless you happe to stumble across the old SketchUp home page: http://www.sketchup.com/, but I believe they are working to get a link to it from the Google SketchUp home page.

Al Hart