Enscape 2.2 now available for SketchUp!

Enscape™ is a virtual reality (VR) and real-time rendering plugin for SketchUp. With just one click, you can start Enscape and within seconds walk through your fully rendered project – no uploading to cloud or exporting to other programs required. That’s pretty neat.
With the recent release of Version 2.2, we take a look at some of the nifty brand new features that will significantly streamline your workflow.

Multi Point Camera Tool

This camera tool swiftly allows you to add keyframes, change settings such as ‘depth of field’, ‘field of view’ or ‘daytime’ for each keyframe.

VR Interaction

Using this tool you can change the daytime, activate the ‘white mode’ and ‘outlines’ all while in VR. Now Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality are fully supported.

SketchUp Material Editor

The material editor allows you to specify PBR material parameters like albedo, normal maps and roughness.

Layered Screenshot

For post-processing your images that were created with Enscape, you can now export a ‘depth’ and a ‘material ID’ image.

White Background

By using the white background option, you are able to make changes to the background without changing the skybox scene lighting and reflections.

Batch Screenshot

With just one click, you can export all of your favourite views and compare different stages of the project.

As well as these fantastic new features, there are a host of other improvements.

Light Brightness

A slider has been added to control all light sources at once, allowing a faster calibration of your scene brightness.

Sound Export

The last release saw new sound options for video export introduced – now you can include sounds in exported videos.

Image Quality

Both lighting and image quality has been improved, along with many new parameters like Vignetting or variable Chromatic Aberrations.

Windows Mixed Reality

These headsets offer inside-out tracking – meaning you’re not restricted to one tracking area.

For more Enscape information, please check out our website

Any questions? Please email us at sales@elmtec.co.uk and we’ll be happy to help!

SketchUp Pro 2018 is here…

SketchUp Pro 2018 is here. Deliver work you’re incredibly proud of!

Here’s what’s new in 2018…

Smarter Sections: 

Section Planes are essential to architectural composition, so there are some big improvements.

Named Sections​ – Just like components, section planes have names and symbols, making them easy to find, organise, and edit in Outliner. Now, it’s  easy to access and manage sections whenever you need to.

Filled Section Cuts – Filled Section Cuts are now baked into SketchUp Pro. Select a colour for your fills via the Styles dialogue and bake them into templates.

Fast Sections – SketchUp features improved performance for models that use section planes to hide large amounts of geometry. The more geometry you section off, the more you’ll benefit!

Make Better Drawings

Scaled Vector Drawing – Need to add linework that’s not in your model? Create a scaled drawing in LayOut and sketch over a 3D model to flesh out your project. Or draw from details to scale from scratch directly in LayOut

Got BIM?

Ultimately, ‘BIM’ is about using information in your model to make better buildings. The focus is to help users embed and manage information in a SketchUppy way.

Advanced Attributes – SketchUp now features Advanced Attribute fields for a component’s Price, Size, URL, Type, Status, and Owner. So now it’s even easier to embed projects with useful information.

About Elmtec

Elmtec have been the UK distribution partner for SketchUp since 2010, and service a network of UK and Irish resellers. We have over 22 years’ experience within the digital design community.

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