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ASGVIS has released V-Ray for Sketch-Up. This release brings users various performance enhancements, an out of the box rendering solution, and many great V-Ray features to Sketch-Up. V-Ray is a rendering plug-in that enables Sketch-Up users to take advantage of the power and speed of the Chaos Group's V-Ray rendering solution.

IRender is a the fully integrated plug-on for SketchUp rendering solution for SketchUp.

Great script that allows you to instantly align objects to the surface below. A common example would be scattering people / trees / entourage around a sloping site. With this script, just select your objects, click drop and they instantly fall to the surface below. Easy as can be!

You can now make TRUE photo-realistic rendering of your SketchUp model
without the pain and frustration of learning a complex program. Podium
runs completely inside SketchUp from start to finish. It uses SketchUp
features such as textures, background colors, groups and shadows to
achieve impressive results. Podium is intuitive to SketchUp users.
Plus, its simple interface cuts the learning curve to minutes instead
of days. Make an impression without the pain. SU Podium works with
SketchUp 5 or 6, Pro or Google SketchUp.

Here are three techniques for improving three specific areas of SketchUp that affect nearly every large-scale architectural project: interactivity, output time and file size.

Please see my blog for more information and to download this script. 

SkIndigo is a ruby script that will export your Sketchup models to Indigo for rendering.

Features:

This script imports .obj files directly into SketchUp. It works well on some files, fails on others. The Pro version can already do this.

This script adds a Sphere option to SketchUp's Draw menu.

Please visit my blog fro the latest version of all my plugins.

This SketchUp plugin is a WebDialog for moving and copying Groups/Instances. You can enter a move distance in any valid SketchUp units. Use the mouse to click on the arrows to move the object in any of the 10 pre-set directions.

It takes a selection and copies it in XYZ a desired number of times, applying spacing, rotation and scaling. It makes some weird 'growths', but I can also see its use in making helical steps etc...

Usage : Move/Place Objects, Select them and pick Grow.
Pick Point, Enter desired data in dialogs and see results. Undo is 1 go.

RPS Space Design is a free plugin for Google SketchUp.

It was designed for people who want to layout components on a floor plan, assign attributes to them and report on them.

However the component editing Wizards will be useful to all SketchUp Users.

Features:

Opens a dialog to select entities by type (edge, face, group, or instance.) This is a very basic tool (toy?), but could be expanded to include multiple criteria (such as selecting by Layer or material.)

All 3 RPS plugins are now available for SketchUp 6

RPC Objects are 2D and 3D contentdistributed by ArchVision.

Now using IRender, you can add components to your SketchUp model which will render in IRender Plus with the full detail available from RPC Objects.

(RPC Rendering of SketchUp model)