The most well-known Sketchup addon, Artisan Organic Toolset, now supports Sketchup 2018. Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish are among the languages supported by this Sketchup plugin.
Artisan comprises robust subdivision, sculpting, and soft selection tools which can be used for making the followings:-
- Terrain and landscapes
- Furniture
- Characters
- Abstract sculptures and decorative objects
- Fabric, curtains, and pillows
- Rocks, Trees, and Plants
Features
Subdivision Surfaces
- Powerful subdivision algorithm to deal with all types of complicated geometries
- Subdivide and smooth selected faces, groups, or components
- Crease edges or vertices to form hard edges
- Knife subdivide tool for producing loops
- Extrude tool to generate loops devoid of interior faces
- Low-poly, Proxy Mode, automates the process of updating the subsurface geometry as you edit
New Subdivision Features in Artisan
- Accomplish subdivision or smoothing on any selection of faces
- Auto-subdivision of selection boundary faces that leads to cleaner meshes after subdividing
- You may see the subsurface geometry in real-time.
- Proper interpolation of UVs for subdivided geometry
- Quicker subdivision and superior topology
Brush Tools
- Sculpt Brush (sculpt, pinch/spread, flatten, inflate/deflate, smooth/jitter)
- Choose Brush (select faces by performing strokes)
- Paint Brush (paint SketchUp materials on faces with virtual brushstrokes)
- Uniform sculpting mode applying user-defined work plane
- Lock vertices to the user-defined work plane
Vertex Transformation Tools
- Soft Selection
- Soft Move, Rotate, and Scale
- Make Planar (XY, XZ, YZ, or best fit)
Mesh Optimization (Polygon Reduction)
- In comparison to the free Polyreducer plugin, it’s more powerful.
For More information please watch the tutorial
