Found a good piece of software right from the Sketchup plugin list. Time to go on.

Thanks guys for sharing your thoughts with me.

My first post must have been confusing because of my dissatisfaction with the photorealistic rendering plugin for sketchup.

Apologies.

Dissatisfaction is caused by their greediness for new kinds of payments. They are using SWREG, of which I have never heard before. Googling the net that service is not favored by all customers. Now me included.

I know how Shapeways works and how to work with it. So no problem there. Have done several models and sold some.

Only wanted people's opinions of plugins that they are using.

I am a Mac user which limits the list a bit. Thanks anyway for the first good ideas.

I like to use both photos and phororealistisc renderings.

Yes, I mean a photorealistic renderer, and there is a long list of them listed in Sketchup plugins. I am already using one of them. Only wanted to listen to ideas that other designers may have.

Today I feel that this one company likes to be more inventive in creating new untold payments for the customer than it is in creating new features for the software. So, a bit of frustration is in the air.

I would like to have a recommendation for a nice affordable Sketchup plugin for rendering of my Shapeways objects. (Preferably one that honestly and predictably tells me what I have to pay for the product and its upgrades. And who has a reliable method of payments.)