BlueScope Steel is now providing architects and designers with the latest product renders to use in Google Sketchup™ 3D models.
The package includes renders for roofing and walling products made from ZINCALUME® and COLORBOND® steel which can all be downloaded easily and free of charge from BlueScope's own specifier website, www.steelselect.com, and imported into Google Sketchup™. For ease of use, they are available for both Mac and PC versions of the program.
Render files are available for both flat and profiled sections. For profiled sections, each product is scaled to represent nominal product dimensions and colours are represented as accurately as possible*. In addition to ZINCALUME® steel, the package includes the 27 COLORBOND® steel colours for roofing and walling applications. These include the COLORBOND® steel standard range, COLORBOND® Metallic steel and also the newly released COLORBOND® Coolmax® steel in the colour Whitehaven®.
Additional packages are also available for specific roofing and walling profiles from individual rollformers including Lysaght, Stramit, Fielders and Steeline.
Richard Michael, from SteelSelect, said: "As a leading supplier in the Australian building industry, we are pleased to be able to provide product specific content to architects and building designers that is tailor made for emerging tools and technologies. Architects and designers can now use these free of charge in their Google SketchUp™ 3D designs and drawings, to improve the efficiency at the important design stage when specifying steel products".
SteelSelect is a resource website for specifiers that includes information on BlueScope Steel and rollformer products including specifications, brochures, colour charts, calculators and CAD program files and links.
SteelSelect is also offering specifiers the chance to win a $200 Coles Group & Myer gift voucher simply by sending in their 3D designs utilising render files downloaded from www.steelselect.com for roofing and/or walling made from COLORBOND® steel. To submit an entry, please send images to textures@steeltalk.com.au.
For further information or to download instructions for using BlueScope Steel products in Google Sketchup™, visit www.steelselect.com.
*Colours have been reproduced to represent actual product colours as accurately as possible. However, we recommend checking your chosen colour against an actual sample of the product before purchasing, as limitations and variability in display settings can affect colour tones.
