Sunday, 05 October 2008

  • IMSI TurboSketch Studio with Google SketchUp

    TurboSketch™ Studio is a powerful, easy-to-use toolset that combines the award-winning Google™ SketchUp 6 with a rendering plug-in for adding photorealistic finishes to your designs with one click!Powered by LightWorks® photorealistic rendering engine, and using innovative new features, including global illumination, TurboSketch easily turns your SketchUp models into beautiful, presentation-ready images.

    TurboSketch 
     
    What is Google™ SketchUp?
     
    Developed for the conceptual stages of design, Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design. From simple to complex, conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp enables you to build and modify 3D models quickly and easily.Both Free and Pro versions are available from Google, however, as a trusted partner, IMSI Design distributes Google SketchUp 6 (free version) with our TurboSketch Studio software for your convenience. Customers who already have Google SketchUp 6, free or pro installed can simply add TurboSketch as a plug-in to their existing software.
     
    Why Choose TurboSketch Studio?

    TurboSketch Studio is powered by the award-winning LightWorks® photorealistic rendering engine - yes, the same award-winning rendering engine found in expensive CAD packages. Only in this case, it takes one click to do its thing.It's deceptively simple and amazingly powerful.

    Photorealistic Rendering Made Easy

    TurboSketch builds on the ease of use that has made SketchUp such a success. For most renderings, all you need is to press one of the three render mode buttons, and you're done!

    Materials

    Color and texture are some of the most important elements of a design. TurboSketch Studio gives you multiple material effects which allow you to experiment with reflection and texture. Use SketchUp to add new materials, then add a professional looking finish to a material and see the results right away

    Realistic Lighting

    TurboSketch Studio Lighting components contain an easy-to-use set of advanced lighting effects. Build on your shadow effects created in Google SketchUp and add lighting and special effects to enhance and give realistic properties to your designs.Create custom light sources, including spot and directional lights, adjust their colors and intensity. To give you a head start, we ship a couple of lights as SketchUp components.

    SketchUp Integration

    Rather than importing sketches into a complicated rendering tool, TurboSketch is integrated with SketchUp, providing an intuitive toolbar. Being embedded inside SketchUp makes it easy to make changes and view frequent iterative differences. Just use the simple, integrated TurboSketch toolbar. Where it is relevent, you just right click and from the local menu access the TurboSketch tools.

    Environments

    The environments allow you to affect the overall appearance by adding backgrounds and atmospheric elements with the Environment controls, it’s easy to apply an environment to your design to create a specific mood or atmosphere. The environments allow you to affect the overall appearance of your drawing by adding backgrounds and atmospheric elements to the rendered output, enhancing the ambiance and adding realism.