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Tutoring
Customized 1-on-1 tutoring sessions. Don't waste time & money in class. Learn only what you need for your specific projects, and nothing more!
Collaborative
Share screens with us to cut costs and learn along the way. More communication increases our understanding of your project.
Contract
Hourly rate or fixed price for agreed upon deliverables and deadlines.
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SU Podium Services We Provide
Render Optimization
Render Optimization: Enhance your 3D models with SU Podium’s Render Optimization service, ensuring faster, smoother rendering times without compromising on quality. Tweak lighting, textures, and geometry for optimal performance and achieve high-quality visuals efficiently.
Material Customization
Material Customization allows users to tailor the textures, colors, reflections, bump maps, and other material properties to create highly realistic and specific visual appearances for each element in their 3D model. This service ensures that every material aligns perfectly with the design vision and functional requirements, enhancing the overall quality and realism of the rendered project.
Texture Mapping
Texture Mapping in SU Podium is a powerful tool that allows users to enhance their 3D models by applying detailed textures to surfaces, ensuring a realistic representation of materials and finishes. Utilize pre-designed or custom textures to give your designs a lifelike appearance, adding depth, detail, and vibrancy to every project. With precision mapping, align textures perfectly to any shape, making your architectural and design renders truly stand out.
Animation Creation
Animation Creation: Transform your architectural visualizations into dynamic animations with SU Podium's Animation Creation service. Bring your designs to life by showcasing intricate details, exploring spaces from multiple angles, and highlighting essential features through seamless, high-quality animations. Perfect for presentations, marketing materials, and client proposals, our animations add a captivating, immersive experience to your project demonstrations.
Scene Composition
Scene Composition: This sub-service offers meticulous arrangement and design of elements within a 3D scene to ensure balance, harmony, and visual appeal. Utilizing advanced understanding of spatial relationships, lighting, and perspective, we optimize each scene for clear storytelling and aesthetic impact, resulting in compelling and professional-quality visual renderings.
Lighting Enhancement
Lighting Enhancement: Transform your SketchUp models with our Lighting Enhancement sub-service, designed to bring your 3D scenes to life. By expertly adjusting and optimizing lighting within your renders, we create realistic, vibrant, and visually stunning visuals, ensuring every detail is perfectly illuminated to achieve the desired ambiance and mood for your projects.
About SU Podium
SU Podium is a powerful and intuitive photo-realistic rendering plug-in for SketchUp, a popular 3D modeling software. Designed primarily for architects, interior designers, and other design professionals, SU Podium enables users to create stunningly realistic images effortlessly. With its user-friendly interface and seamless integration with SketchUp, practitioners can quickly visualize their models with extensive lighting, reflection, and material options.
One of SU Podium’s standout features is its use of ray tracing technology, which allows for accurate simulation of light behavior, producing highly detailed and natural-looking renderings. The software also provides a range of presets and customizable settings, accommodating both novice users and experienced renderers. Its efficient use of processing power ensures that high-quality results can be achieved without extensive wait times or the need for expensive hardware.
In addition, SU Podium supports various output formats and resolutions, making it versatile for presentations, client demonstrations, or marketing materials. With ongoing updates and a supportive user community, SU Podium ensures that professionals have the tools they need to turn their creative visions into reality.
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SU Podium FAQs
Does SU Podium support network rendering?
Does SU Podium support network rendering?
No, SU Podium does not support network rendering.
How do I install and activate SU Podium in SketchUp?
How do I install and activate SU Podium in SketchUp?
1. Download the SU Podium installer for your version of SketchUp from the official website. 2. Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. 3. Open SketchUp and go to `Extensions` > `SU Podium` > `License`. 4. Enter your license information and click `Activate`. SU Podium should now be installed and activated in SketchUp.
What file formats does SU Podium support for exporting renderings?
What file formats does SU Podium support for exporting renderings?
SU Podium supports exporting renderings in JPEG, PNG, and HDR file formats.
How do I achieve faster rendering times with SU Podium?
How do I achieve faster rendering times with SU Podium?
To achieve faster rendering times with SU Podium, lower the resolution, reduce the number of lights in the scene, keep the geometry simple, minimize the use of displacement maps, close unnecessary applications to free up system resources, and consider using a computer with a more powerful CPU and increased RAM.
How do I create realistic lighting in SU Podium?
How do I create realistic lighting in SU Podium?
To create realistic lighting in SU Podium, use natural light sources such as the sun and sky settings, add light fixtures with Omni or LEM lights for interior lighting, adjust light intensity and color temperature for realism, and utilize Podium Browser for high-quality light components and materials.
What are the system requirements for running SU Podium?
What are the system requirements for running SU Podium?
The minimum system requirements for running SU Podium are: - Windows: Windows 8 or later (64-bit), with at least 8 GB of RAM, 64-bit processor with 2 or more cores, and SketchUp 2017 or later. - Mac: macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later, with at least 8 GB of RAM, 64-bit processor with 2 or more cores, and SketchUp 2017 or later. Recommended specifications for
How do I use SU Podium to render SketchUp models?
How do I use SU Podium to render SketchUp models?
To use SU Podium to render SketchUp models, first install the SU Podium plugin. Once installed, open your SketchUp model and configure your scene, including lighting, materials, and camera angle. Then, access SU Podium from the SketchUp extensions menu, adjust the rendering settings like resolution and quality, and click the render button to generate your image.
How can I improve the quality of my renders using SU Podium?
How can I improve the quality of my renders using SU Podium?
To improve the quality of your renders using SU Podium, follow these tips: 1) Use high-resolution textures to ensure detailed surfaces. 2) Adjust the lighting by experimenting with the Sun, Sky, and artificial light settings to create realistic illumination. 3) Enable anti-aliasing to smooth out jagged edges. 4) Adjust the rendering resolution to be as high as your system can handle. 5) Use Podium's material properties to enhance reflections, refractions, and
How do I troubleshoot rendering issues in SU Podium?
How do I troubleshoot rendering issues in SU Podium?
To troubleshoot rendering issues in SU Podium, ensure you have the latest version installed, check your model for excessive geometry or textures, verify your lighting settings, increase render quality gradually, and consult the SU Podium support resources or forums for specific error messages or concerns.
How do I add materials and textures in SU Podium?
How do I add materials and textures in SU Podium?
To add materials and textures in SU Podium, first, prepare your materials in SketchUp. Apply textures to your model using SketchUp's paint bucket tool, then open SU Podium and use the Podium Material Properties dialog to adjust material settings like reflections, bump maps, and other attributes to achieve the desired appearance.
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ON-DEMAND PROFESSIONALS
We are a team of tutors and freelancers that are hire-able on an as-needed basis for 3D modeling, architecture, interior rendering, product design, mechanical projects, animation, and more. Call us with a quick question or a big project. Our availability is flexible, and we offer a variety of skillsets and prices.
SCREEN-SHARE TUTORS AND FREELANCERS
We teach remotely, so you can learn from the comfort of your home, the jobsite, or even the beach! Our sessions cover tools like SketchUp, Blender, Fusion 360, Revit, and AutoCAD. Classes run over Zoom screen-share so we can see each other's screens and cursors. It can take hours to search online for one piece of information, but just minutes to ask your private tutor. Don't struggle alone — get help from a real person online!
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SU Podium Tutors & Services
Get on demand SU Podium classes! We are a team of tutors and freelancers that are hire-able on an as-needed basis for professional help with your projects. Call us with a quick question, or a big project. Our availability is flexible. We teach remotely, so you can learn from the comfort of your home, from the jobsite, or from the beach! We teach classes via Zoom screenshare, so we can see each others' screens and cursors. It can take hours to search online for 1 simple piece of information, but just minutes to ask your private tutor.
Advantages of Online Tutors & Services
Effective
The process of learning 1-on-1 with a live tutor lets you actively participate in the learning. You can immediately repeat a concept in your own words, ask clarifying questions, or demonstrate a concept back to your tutor to ensure understanding.
Efficient
Save time and resources by learning from the comfort of your home. Avoid commuting expenses and focus on learning only the tools you need with personalized lessons tailored to your specific workflow.
Recordable
No need to take notes! We record your lessons so you can replay them at your own pace later. Keep these recordings for future reference and reinforce your learning whenever needed.
Fun
Learning with a dedicated tutor makes the experience enjoyable and interactive. Discuss problems, practice together, and enjoy the human conversational element that brings life to online learning. Reach out anytime you need assistance!
Tutors & Services Philosophy
Don't Learn Alone
Professionals these days are sitting alone and staring at their computers. They spend years searching online for tools that will increase their workplace efficiency—digging through forums and watching lengthy videos for the right CAD or visualization tip.
Sometimes they just have one small question that would take a person two minutes to answer, but customer support lines are a thing of the past. Big companies will direct you to an FAQ that will hardly begin to answer your question.
Bring Back the Human Connection
We strive to bring human connection back to the work environment. Our tutors work directly with you to solve your problems, similar to the way an apprentice works hand-in-hand with a skilled professional.
Screen-share technologies like Zoom have allowed us to work together in real time. We can see each others' screens and cursors, switch presenters to share information easily, and even turn on webcams for a more human interaction. Learn efficiently across workflows like architectural rendering, interiors, mechanical modeling, and construction documentation.
Tutors, Services, or Both
Sometimes our clients want to learn a program from beginning to end; sometimes they completely hand over the services to us; and other times, they want something in between.
Some clients want to be able to use the program on a basic level and let us do the hard stuff. Others want to co-work with us, supervising our work to ensure their artistic vision is realized. Along the way, they learn the tools—whether that’s SketchUp, Blender, Fusion 360, Revit, or AutoCAD.
By the end of the process, some clients are able to wean themselves completely off of our services and are empowered to do the work themselves. If they get stuck or behind on a deadline, they use us as a lifeline. They can call anytime—even if it’s just a 10-minute question—we are here to help.
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Juan is a great and patient tutor who really connects.
Tim is the man, extremely helpful and responsive throughout the whole process. Use him for a few years now
Curt was very helpful in the Sketchup tutoring session and had a very high level of knowledge of Sketchup and Layout. I will be using Curt as a tutor again as I develop my Sketchup skills.
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Thank you Shanthi your excellent communication and professionalism while using Sketchup software to complete my design.
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Mike R is awesome! I have a lot to learn in Fusion 360 but I'm confident Mike will get me there.
Geoff B once again did an amazing and speedy job on my project creating a 3D model and several scenes in SketchUp. He beat his estimated cost of the project by 33%! Thank you!
A Very Knowledgeable Expert and Patient as you go through the learning curve.
Rapid set up, expeditious feedback, instructions suitable from Scott for people (like me) with little to no knowledge of the CAD subject matter.
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