Tracepen converts a PNG or JPG into Blender meshes or editable Bezier curves — a free image-to-mesh Blender add-on – each colour becomes its own object inside a TracePen collection, landing in place. A deterministic tracer (no AI), running on an embedded WASM core. Free for 2-colour traces; sign in with a 3dshouse account for […]
Tracepen is a free online image vectorizer that turns a raster image (PNG, JPG, WebP) into clean vectors in your browser – export SVG, PNG, PDF, or DXF (Lines, Hatch, Faces) for Figma, Cricut, Lightburn, CNC, AutoCAD, SketchUp, or Blender. A deterministic tracer (no AI). Free for 2-colour SVG / PNG; sign in with a […]
Metasheet edits any Revit parameter directly in a spreadsheet grid inside Revit — no Excel round-trip. Browse 11 collections (Elements, Sheets, Views, Rooms…), edit inline, and apply every change in a single Revit Transaction. Completely free — all features, no Pro tier. \\n \\n Metasheet Revit Spreadsheet Features \\n \\n 11 collections — Elements, Family […]
SketchUp’s 3D modeler still has no fillet or chamfer command for rounding the edges of a solid, so softening a corner usually means fighting with Follow Me or buying a paid extension. (SketchUp 2026 did add Fillet and Chamfer tools — but only inside LayOut, for 2D vector linework, not for 3D geometry.) BevelUp fixes […]
Turning a PNG or JPG into Blender mesh geometry no longer needs an Illustrator or Inkscape round-trip — these five image-to-mesh addons trace it directly inside Blender. They all use contour tracing, not AI depth reconstruction, so you get clean, editable per-colour geometry rather than a noisy scanned blob. First, the part that decides your […]
I’m an architect who transitioned into software development years ago. I often get requests to build simple plugins, but I usually focus only on the more complex ones. So in this post, I’ll walk you through how to use AI so that anyone can build a Revit addin plugin themselves — no prior coding experience […]
SketchUp has no built-in mesh simplification or decimation tool — this is a deliberate design decision, not an oversight. SketchUp was designed for architects drawing from scratch, not for processing meshes imported from game engines or Megascans. When you import a file from 3D Warehouse, receive an FBX from a client, or export from Revit, […]
Disclosure up front: I’m the author of TracePen, one of the tools in this comparison. I wanted to see honestly where it stands in this image-to-vector tool comparison against Illustrator, CorelDRAW, and Vector Magic — so I ran the same photo through all four and I’m posting the outputs here. Judge for yourselves; I’ll flag […]
Smart Dynamic Component Options SketchUp Panel: Features and How It Works Smart dynamic options panel is a smart interface for editing dynamic component options in SketchUp. Replace SketchUp’s default component options panel with a smarter, batch-capable alternative. Limitations of the default component options panel. It takes a lot of time to have to press the […]
When dynamic components are copied a lot, use the redraw multi component tool in SketchUp for quick automatic batch redraw. This matters because SketchUp does not push a redraw to every copy on its own: editing the geometry or formulas inside one dynamic component does not re-evaluate the others until each instance is individually redrawn, […]
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