I did come across this plug-in, but I am not sure if anyone has any experience with it. The website has me a little worried about purchasing something from it. https://3dshouse.com/trace-image-to-3d-sketchup-faces/

Honestly would like to import assets from web resources like Toffu.co and www.archade.ai and use them as 2D face me components. I prefer that they remain as vector graphics and not PNGs, and I would ideally like not to have to trace over them (looking for a time saver). I have used a workflow where I import a DXF version and manually create the faces and assign colors, but I was looking for a one-click solution.

How is it 2025 and we still don't have a way to import a SVG file with color fills? We seriously need a way to import EPS, SVG and PDF cleanly. I would even be ok with importing SWG with color hatches but that is not supported either it seems. Anyone have any tricks for this?

I had been a member at FormFonts since 2006. I was sad to see it go but I understand the move. I prefer CG Trader over Turbosquid these days. The pricing seems so much more reasonable. Do you model the people from scratch or are you using something like DAZ to start the basic model? Best of luck on this next chapter Alan!

@tuna1957 No way! This is such a disappointment! This was such a great resource.

I have tried to get into FormFonts for the last couple of days and the website will not load. Have we lost this precious resource???

I seem to still get some startup hard crashes when I have re-enabled a plugin and I restart SketchUp. Could be V-Ray and or Artisan?

New update is great. Thanks TIG

@TIG I'm happy to test it as well if needed. Thanks TIG

I think I also noticing that if I enable a plugin through the SketchUcation manager, close SketchUp and restart, SketchUp will hard crash the first time it starts up and loads that plugin. If I start SketchUp again, no problems and the plugin loads.

@TIG said in [Plugin] SketchUcation Tools:

@valerostudio
I am looking at the causes and a fix...
It's almost like SketchUp now prevent you from activating just some extensions/plugins on the fly...

Bummer. Hopefully something that can be fixed. This was one of my favorite features. Disabling a ton of the less-used extensions and loading them as needed was such a powerful tool.

SketchUcation Tools in 2023 used to load the plungin right away when I enabled it from the disabled menu. I had to restart 2024 now. Am I missing something?

Interesting. I cant say I have played with Flowify yet. I well take a look. Thanks!

@rich o brien said:

Kinda hard to offer advice without visuals but ToolsOnSurface and JPP would spring to mind for scoring/panelling.

Bevelling depends on mesh density. I find the outcome relies on the source mesh topology. If your dealing with a messy terrain mesh then bevelling will be challenging. Does your render app support bevelling via a shader?

My typical workflow is to gather the topo information either from importing through SketchUp's add location (not ideal, but if it is all I have, then it is what it is). Or I will get a mess of a file from the civil engineers. I take the messy terrain mesh and use Vali Terrain to create a simplified clean mesh over that, usually using 25' spacing on large sites and less on smaller sites.

Then I get a clean 2D site plan import or drawn into SketchUp, hovering over the mesh. I save the mesh as a component before I make any cuts because changes WILL happen. I make the roadway and sidewalk cuts using drape (doesn't always work perfectly) and then I use JPP to give the roads some depth and create the curb line.

Now, here is where I would like to get more detailing into my model... I draw sidewalk scoring lines on my 2D plan and drape those on the 3D sidewalks and I am looking for a fast way turn those lines into a groove. Mainly I want to do this so I can use a dirt map in VRay to give the sidewalk some realism.

Does anyone have advice on how you would model the scoring detail on a sidewalk that is on a terrain? Any plugins that would make quick work of adding a bevel on a mesh surface?

@joe wood said:

right on, so what file type do I export?

Just send them a cleaned up version of your SketchUp model. Lumion supports SKP format.

It's best to just model it. I would never use displacement in this manner. There are plug-ins that could help with the modeling pretty quickly I bet.

This plugin is being blocked by our Sonic Wall due to being behind an IP in Russia. I've used this extension for years and never had this issue. Did something change recently?

I am the Director of Visualization at a mid-size architecture firm in Providence Rhode Island. We are looking for a talented SketchUp designer/visualization artist.

Take a look at the posting at CG Architect below.

https://www.cgarchitect.com/jobs/1882f111-digital-design-artist

Here is a link to the firm's website - https://dbvw.com/

Do you guys remember Entourage Arts? They had some great hand-rendered clip entourage that they sold as sets and individual files. I am wondering if they are still hanging around these forums. I have scoured the internet to see if their stuff is still for sale but it doesn't seem so.

https://uedata.amazon.com/Wang-Collection-Trees-Plants-SKP/dp/B000P8ZQU6