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SketchUp Pro 2013 Now Shipping!

Planning a new release means reinforcing and enhancing what SketchUp is all about: simple, seamless, fun. SketchUp users have a feature wish-list of what they personally feel that would turn SketchUp into the perfect tool. Fulfilling all of those wishes would add layers of CAD-like complexity, making SketchUp completely unrecognizable to a person who just wants it to work like a pencil (with superpowers, of course).

For years, though, a number of people have been making SketchUp do precisely what they want it to. Today, thanks to a truly amazing community of developers and the universe of plugins, add-ons and extensions they’ve built, SketchUp can weld, scatter, bend, and do just about anything else you can imagine. In SketchUp 2013, it’s now easier for everyone to find and use these great, customized tools.

To that end, SketchUp 2013 includes Extension Warehouse (beta), the first step towards making it much easier to find and install extensions, to truly customize your SketchUp. Today, this one new feature is actually about 100 features. Sometime soon, it will be a few hundred, and—with the help of SketchUp developers everywhere—maybe a few thousand.

No one uses plugins and extensions more than professional users, who have an amazingly wide array of use cases. But all SketchUp Pro users have one thing in common: at some point, they need to document, share, present, or sell the work they’ve done. So in SketchUp Pro 2013, LayOut is now a full-fledged documentation tool for creating scaled, annotated, and dimensioned drawings from your models. Hatching and pattern fills, speedier vector rendering, better zoom, more useful callouts: LayOut is more powerful, more precise, and more customizable than ever.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 is available at a student discount price of $49.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 is free for instructors.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 Lab licenses are available at a school discount price of $15.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 Laptop Licenses.

If you have a non-expired SketchUp Pro 8 license purchased from Creation Engine, please email your name, school, and serial number to sketchup@creationengine.com for your free update to SketchUp Pro 2013.

Lock ‘n’ Charge iPad, Tablet, and Laptop Carts

Lock ‘n’ Charge Technologies is a company dedicated to the design, manufacture and distribution of the highest quality and most functional security, charging and transport solutions for storing iPad, Tablets and Laptop Computers.

EVO3240 Tablet Cart
$1,999
Introducing the new EVO 40 Tablet Cart by Lock’n’Charge. Designed to store, secure, transport and charge up to 40 tablet devices of almost any kind!

Additional Lock ‘n’ Charge iPad, Tablet, and Laptop Carts

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 4 Now Shipping!

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 4
$674.99
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is the tool of choice for planning games, live action and animation projects.

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is the artist’s tool of choice for creating storyboards digitally. Storyboard Pro was developed with seasoned storyboard artists to significantly speed up the production and revision process, and provide artistic freedom when drawing with advanced drawing tools. Whether working on individual projects, or in a studio environment, all storyboard artists can benefit from this powerful tool.

Storyboard Pro is a great tool to add value to your projects, whether you’re working in Gaming, Live Action, or Animation. Plan your games, short animations, television shows, or feature films using this Emmy-Award winning technology.

Stop Motion Pro 8 Studio Plus – Education Version Now Shipping!

Stop Motion Pro 8 Studio Plus – Education Version
$173.95
The ultimate in stop motion animation production. Developed with studios involved in animated feature film production, Stop Motion Pro Studio Plus has all the cost saving tools for making animation in medium to large studios.

Students will amaze themselves, parents and teachers by making their own high quality animated films. Our intuitive interface means your students will focus on curriculum outcomes, character development and story.

Free FileMaker Training Series with FileMaker Pro 12

Purchase FileMaker Pro 12 or FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced, and receive the FileMaker Training Series on DVD free with your order!

FileMaker Pro 12 is available at an academic discount price of $178.95

FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced is available at an academic discount price of $178.95

SketchUp: Making our space at Maker Faire Bay Area

Link via Official SketchUp Blog

SketchUp Maker Faire checklist:

SketchUp design

Engineering toolbox plugin

Cutlist plugin

Lumber cutlist

Miter saw

18-bolt cordless drill

Gorilla glue

Safety glasses

Band-aids

Through our years attending Maker Faire Bay Area we’ve realized this: we generally spend less time talking about SketchUp and more time using it. For us, Maker Faire is usually more of a workshop than a trade show.

Recognizing that, we wanted to do something a bit different for Maker Faire Bay Area next weekend in San Mateo, CA. For starters, instead of setting up a booth to tell people about SketchUp, we decided it would be more fun to create a space where we could work with people on SketchUp projects. And since we designed it ourselves, we decided to make it ourselves too.

Trimble SketchUp 8 is free.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 8 is available at a student discount price of $49.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 8 is free for instructors.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 8 Lab licenses are available at a school discount price of $15.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 8 Laptop Licenses

S-FRAME Structural Office R11 Student 1-Year License

S-FRAME Structural Office R11 Student 1-Year License
$149.95
S-FRAME Structural Office R11 Student includes S-FRAME ANALYSIS, S-VIEW, S- STEEL DESIGN, S-PAD DESIGN, S-CONCRETE DESIGN, S-LINE DESIGN, and S-CALC.

S-FRAME ANALYSIS for Structural Analysis, Design and Modeling
A complete structural modeling, analysis, and design environment, S-FRAME features numerous productivity tools, advanced analyses, a variety of material models, flexible load combination methods, fast and accurate solver technology all bundled within a powerful and intuitive user interface.

S-VIEW – Visualization Tool
A new powerful visualization tool for S-FRAME model viewing, sharing and validating in a collaborative environment. The tool is included with S-FRAME Analysis R11. S-VIEW is capable of viewing results, capturing screenshots and generating animations of S-FRAME Analysis results data.

S-STEEL DESIGN for Steel Design and optimization of Structures
Design of steel structures including steel members, plate girders, tapered plate girders and more. Includes code checking, auto-design and optimization to multiple design codes on a complete structure or just part of a structure. S-STEEL is fully integrated with S-FRAME Analysis.

S-PAD DESIGN for Steel Member Design and Optimization
A standalone steel design and optimization product. Quickly check columns, beams or braces without the need to build a detailed model for the complete structure. Built with the structural engineer consultant in mind.

S-CONCRETE for Concrete Design and Detailing
Comprehensive section design and detailing tool to reinforce concrete beans, columns and walls. Its powerful graphical output capabilites provide immediate feedback to the engineer as design parameters are changed. S-CONCRETE is integrated with S-FRAME analysis.

S-LINE DESIGN for Continuous Concrete Beam Design and Detailing
An intuitive yet powerful standalone application for the analysis, design and detailing of continuous reinforced concrete beams. S-LINE supports code checking and automated design and detailing to multiple design codes for a variety of section types.

S-CALC – Advanced Cross-Section Property Calculator
Increase productivity and design accuracy with S-CALC, a powerful cross-section property calculator for sections of any size, shape or material. Featuring nine steel section databases, 49 parametric shapes, a built-up shape builder and more. Integrated with S-FRAME Analysis and other 3rd party platforms.

All S-Frame Student Licenses are for college/university students and faculty members only. All academic products show watermarks to the effect that they are for “Academic Use Only”.

SU Podium V2 image of the month

Link via SU Podium Forum

April 2013 image of the month is from award winning Pilacki Design Studio.

SU Podium V2 is available at an academic discount price of $90

SketchUp Pro 8 Student 1-year license with SU Podium V2 Rendering Plug-In $129

SketchUp Pro 8 Teacher 1-year license with SU Podium V2 Rendering Plug-In $80

Learn More About SolidWorks Using the Built-in Tutorials

Link via SolidWorks Blog

I find that the best way to learn about the tools available in SolidWorks is by using them.

And one way that SolidWorks helps you to do this is by including an extensive selection of tutorials on a wide range of tools. These tutorials are fully incorporated into SolidWorks and are available in the SolidWorks resources tab of the task manager, or under the Help menu.

SolidWorks Student Edition 2012-2013 is available for $99.95

Xfrog Sale!

Xfrog 5 for Maya
On sale for $149! $250 off normal retail price of $399. Offer good through 5/31/2013.

Xfrog 5 for Cinema 4D
On sale for $149! $250 off normal retail price of $399. Offer good through 5/31/2013.

Xfrog 3.5 Full Version
On sale for $149! $250 off normal retail price of $399. Offer good through 5/31/2013.

XfrogPlants Volume Bundle
On sale for $349! $750 off normal retail price of $1,099. Offer good through 5/31/2013.

SketchUp Pro 2013 Now Shipping!

Lock ‘n’ Charge iPad, Tablet, and Laptop Carts

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 4 Now Shipping!

Stop Motion Pro 8 Studio Plus – Education Version Now Shipping!

Free FileMaker Training Series with FileMaker Pro 12

SketchUp: Making our space at Maker Faire Bay Area

S-FRAME Structural Office R11 Student 1-Year License

SU Podium V2 image of the month

Learn More About SolidWorks Using the Built-in Tutorials

Xfrog Sale!

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