Profile Builder is like the Follow Me tool 'on steroids'. It has been designed for professionals who want to model intelligent building materials with extreme speed and accuracy. It may forever change the way you model with SketchUp.
FREE Window Creation Extension for SketchUp – Windows Builder. In today's video, we check out Windows Builder – a new extension from Didier Bur for SketchUp that allows you to quickly create windows in your models! Profile Builder 3 is a useful sketchup extension that can be applied to produce smart buildings automatically with skin, columns, beams, and more. Profile Builder can also be used to reiterate components and extrude profiles with the purpose of generating buildings, walls, and other objects in SketchUp. Profile Builder is compatible with SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.
Compatible with:
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- Windows and Mac systems SU8 and up.
Features
- Ability to define and save custom profiles
- Intelligent modelling of real building materials
- Automatic orientation of profile extrusion along any path
- Ability to edit a path and automatically update the extrusion
- Full control of profile orientation (placement point, rotation, offsets, etc.) along a path
- Profile Member Path Inferencing (PMPI)
- Automatic edge smoothing
- Export material quantity reports
- Downloadable profile libraries
Be sure to download the PDF User Guide (English)
Installation:
- Open SketchUp
- Go to Window (Mac:SketchUp)->Preferences->Extensions->Install Extension..
- Browse to the RBZ file you downloaded from Smustard
- Click 'Open'
- Click 'yes' when asked if you trust this extension
Please Note:
You may need to change your folder permissions for the Profile Libraries Folder in order to create a new library.
- In Windows, navigate to the 'Libraries' folder inside the DM_ProfileBuilder folder.
- Right-click on the 'Libraries' folder
- Select 'Properties' from the right-click context menu
- Click the 'Security' tab
- Click the 'Edit.' button to edit the permissions of this folder
- Select the 'Users' group
- Click the 'Full Control' checkbox in the 'Allow' column
- Click Apply
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Profile Libraries
The following profile library files (PLB) are available at no charge. The Profile Builder plugin is required to use these libraries. See user guide for details.
Attention Users Upgrading from SketchUp 8 to SketchUp 2013
- First, download the latest version of Profile Builder from Smustard. You may need to login using the MySmustard toolbar to access your past purchases. Or, find the original download link that Smustard sent you when you purchased.
- Install the plugin as described in the section above.
- Go to your SketchUp 8 plugins folder and find the folder ‘ProfileBuilder/Libraries'. This contains all of your custom profile libraries.
- Copy all of the PLB files from this folder to the corresponding folder for SketchUp 2013 (./plugins/DM_ProfileBuilder/Libraries). You may need to be logged in as an administrator to do this.
- Ensure that you do not have two versions of Profile Builder inside your plugins folder. If you have multiple versions, delete the file ‘pb_loader.rb' and the folder ‘ProfileBuilder' from your plugins folder but make sure that you have first transferred your custom libraries into the ‘DM_ProfileBuilder/Libraries' folder.
You may need to change your folder permissions for the Profile Libraries Folder in order to create a new library.
- In Windows, navigate to the 'Libraries' folder inside the DM_ProfileBuilder folder.
- Right-click on the 'Libraries' folder
- Select 'Properties' from the right-click context menu
- Click the 'Security' tab
- Click the 'Edit.' button to edit the permissions of this folder
- Select the 'Users' group
- Click the 'Full Control' checkbox in the 'Allow' column
- Click Apply
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Profile Libraries
The following profile library files (PLB) are available at no charge. The Profile Builder plugin is required to use these libraries. See user guide for details.
Attention Users Upgrading from SketchUp 8 to SketchUp 2013
- First, download the latest version of Profile Builder from Smustard. You may need to login using the MySmustard toolbar to access your past purchases. Or, find the original download link that Smustard sent you when you purchased.
- Install the plugin as described in the section above.
- Go to your SketchUp 8 plugins folder and find the folder ‘ProfileBuilder/Libraries'. This contains all of your custom profile libraries.
- Copy all of the PLB files from this folder to the corresponding folder for SketchUp 2013 (./plugins/DM_ProfileBuilder/Libraries). You may need to be logged in as an administrator to do this.
- Ensure that you do not have two versions of Profile Builder inside your plugins folder. If you have multiple versions, delete the file ‘pb_loader.rb' and the folder ‘ProfileBuilder' from your plugins folder but make sure that you have first transferred your custom libraries into the ‘DM_ProfileBuilder/Libraries' folder.
Modeling Framing in Your SketchUp Models with House Builder and 1001Bit Tools
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In today's video, we're going to use a pair of extensions to create a wood framed house model in SketchUp.
The first is called house builder – it's an extension from TIG that as far as I know, can only be downloaded from a forum post in SketchUcation. The second is 1001 Bit tools, which I've talked about a bit in the past. It has a great rafter framing tool that we're going to use.
Housebuilder allows you to generate framed wall assemblies, as well as generating roofs, and probably most importantly, openings in those wall assemblies.
We're going to start off by drawing the outline of our house, then we'll use house builder to generate our framed walls.
Note that you can adjust all the settings for the framing in the settings section.
Once you've drawn the outline of your framing, you can come in and add walls along the lines that you've outlined.
Now, you can add openings using the opening creation tools. This extension comes with the ability to quickly add door and window openings, as well as move them around within house builder assemblies. This allows you to quickly and easily generate openings in your framed walls with proper framing.
Once we've developed this for our first floor, we're going to add rafters with 1001 bit tools. I will note, you could also use and extension like Medeek Truss from Nathaniel Wilkerson, but that is a paid extension, where 1001 bit is free.
Now, we can add our upper level framing, then we'll work on our roof. In this case, what we're going to do is use 1001 bit tools to generate the rafters along our edges. Once again, Medeek Truss gives you more options for this if you don't mind paying a few bucks.
To use 1001 bit tools, we're going to start by generating the footprint of our roof as a face. Then we'll use the 'Automatically Create Hip Roof' function to generate the roof faces, then finally we'll use the generate rafter function to finalize our roof.
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