SketchUp 6.9

That title must've caught your attention! Initially, the idea was to name it SketchUp 7, but that would've probably had most of you into thinking this is the SketchUp 7 teaser that was announced in the forums yesterday. If that's what you're looking for, then jump over to here.

If you're like me, you love new SketchUp tools. But lately, so many new tools have been introduced by several Ruby coders, that those tools combined may very well be called a full version upgrade!

This article covers the four tools which really have turned heads lately in the SCF Ruby forum and beyond.
In this article the modeling of a basic vase is shown and how each tool adds its own usefulness to adding details to the object.

Modeling a vase in SketchUp is not exactly a difficult task.
The intention of this article however, is to show how easy it is to manipulate existing geometry now and being able to work much faster with less effort. Moreover, this particular vase is not exactly of the usual blocky SketchUp nature.

Modeling the vase

The vase you seen below is the end result of what we are going to model using four new tools for SketchUp, brought to you by the active SketchUp Ruby developer community.