Malcolm's house at Oyster Cove

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Free digital model of dry stone wall

You can download these dry-stone wall models for free from 3dwarehouse. To find them search for Intresto on 3dwarehouse or follow this link http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=0689629068175189811728180&scoring=m



I made the models by first digitising the shapes of real rocks then I optimised the packing of the virtual rocks using our Rocksolver software application. Rocksolver is the first rock optimisation software application capable of packing rocks together in much the same way a stone mason would.

Intresto's free rock models on 3dwarehouse

Real rock shapes were digitised using a laser scanner then I photographed real rock textures which were applied in Sketchup. There are lots of rock models and they can be downloaded for free from 3dwarehouse. Just search for the Intresto collection on 3dwarehouse or follow this link http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=0689629068175189811728180&scoring=m



You can download the models directly into your Sketchup CAD landscapes. To import into Blender, Maya, 3ds Max or other 3D computer graphics software export from Sketchup as dae, import into MeshLab then export as stl or obj.

Free stone models

I've made some really nice digital 3D stone models using Sketchup and you can download them for free from the Intresto collection on 3dwarehouse here http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=3b6498554492f5bbcaf22741b2e3465e



There are lots of other free rock models and dry-stone wall models in the Intresto collection. If the link above doesn't work go to 3dwarehouse and search for Intresto.

You can download the models directly into Sketchup then export as a dae file and import into MeshLab. From MeshLab the file can be exported in a number of different formats such as obj or stl then used in a whole range of 3D applications like Blender.