Artlandia Brings SymmetryMill to SketchUp for 3D Texturing

Artlandia has released a new plug-in that makes the company’s cloud-based pattern design editor SymmetryMill available as an interactive texture editor in SketchUp. The plug-in extends SketchUp’s built-in texture library and lets the designer interactively create and refine custom patterns and textures for specific models or products, such as apparel, furnishings, interiors and exteriors of buildings and vehicles.

SymmetryMill’s repeating patterns instantly become SketchUp’s materials (textures). Editing a pattern automatically updates the linked SketchUp model. The pattern textures further behave as normal SketchUp materials, which can be applied with SketchUp’s Paint Bucket tool, repositioned, distorted, painted on complex SketchUp models.

The plug-in is fully compatible with both the free and the full (paid) version of SymmetryMill and is immediately available free of charge for both the free and the Pro versions of SketchUp 8 on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux; it can also be installed in SketchUp 7.

For more information, visit Artlandia.

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