{"id":1947,"date":"2012-02-05T02:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T07:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2012-02-04T02:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T07:30:56","slug":"3d-sketch-up-models-for-newport-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/05\/3d-sketch-up-models-for-newport-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Sketch-up models for Newport parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/cad-based-optomechanics-mock-ups\/\">Thorlabs<\/a> and Newport have offered 3D models of their products for a long time. However, they&#8217;re typically in formats for expensive programs like SolidWorks and AutoCAD. In the past year or two, Newport has been slowly adding to <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/3dwarehouse\/search?uq=0774178905215056886102796&#038;styp=c&#038;scoring=m\">their library of Google SketchUp models<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/np1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"np1\" width=\"293\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1948\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/np2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"np2\" width=\"338\" height=\"244\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1949\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/np2.png 338w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/np2-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I still prefer SolidWorks, but I&#8217;m optimistic that I&#8217;ll eventually switch to SketchUp. Regardless, it&#8217;s nice to see a company supporting free tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/cad-based-optomechanics-mock-ups\/\">Thorlabs<\/a> and Newport have offered 3D models of their products for a long time. However, they&#8217;re typically in formats for expensive programs like SolidWorks and AutoCAD. In the past year or two, Newport has been slowly adding to <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/3dwarehouse\/search?uq=0774178905215056886102796&#038;styp=c&#038;scoring=m\">their library of Google SketchUp models<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/05\/3d-sketch-up-models-for-newport-parts\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,3],"tags":[14,33],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-software","category-tips","tag-construction","tag-openness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}