Which SketchUp extension turns a JPG or PNG into faces? Tracepen, Pic2Shape, ImageTrimmer and Png2Mesh plus hand tracing and DXF import, compared on input, colour, output, price and SketchUp versions.
Author Archives: Nguyen Huu Khanh
How to export a Revit schedule or sheet list to Excel, edit it and get the changes back into the model: the built-in export, Dynamo, round-trip add-ins and Metasheet, with the limits of each.
What Revit’s built-in Find/Replace covers, and which add-ins and scripts replace text in sheet names, view names, family and type names and parameters, with limits and prices.
Why Revit refuses duplicate sheet numbers, and six ways to renumber or rename sheets in bulk, swaps and range shifts included, with each method’s limits.
SDM FloorGenerator is withdrawn and breaks on SketchUp 2024; this compares 11 floor and tile generator plugins by price model, SketchUp versions, 3D geometry versus texture, patterns and limits.
Hatchy turns a pattern into a hatch pattern (.pat) for AutoCAD, Rhino, ZWCAD, Inventor or Revit: pick one of about 1,000 patterns, set size, rotation and joints, download.
Texturic makes a seamless tile texture in your browser: pick one of 380+ patterns and a material, set size and joints, then download albedo, normal, roughness, metalness and AO maps. A step-by-step guide.
Thirteen SketchUp material plugins and texture tools compared: which make a material from a pattern, which only fix an existing one, which PBR maps come out and how each is paid for. Texturic against Architextures head to head.
Texturic turns a pattern and a photo into a seamless texture with PBR maps: apply it to the selected faces, or save the maps on the web. Three free results a day.
SketchUp, Tools, Tracepen
Image to SKP Converter: JPG or PNG to a SketchUp Model, Every Colour Traced Exactly
Image to SKP inside SketchUp: Tracepen traces a JPG or PNG into native faces, one group and one material per colour, and the page says which routes suit a logo, a relief or a photo.