Plants for SketchUp - Best Botanically Accurate Resource for SketchUp
When you want to make a detailed 3D model of something outdoors in SketchUp, you will often need plants to do the environment. But you cannot hope to model all the plants by hand, do you? Rather, you would have to browse for pre-built models of plants, shrubs and trees in the 3D warehouse. And if you want to make sure all your plants are botanically accurate ? there things can get tricky. How many models could you possibly browse and inspect?
Luckily, we here at SketchUp-Ur-Space have stumbled onto a solution. The good folks at?OneCommunity?have taken up a project of gathering all botanically correct models of plants available in one page.
A very experienced botanist on their team has went through every available flora model available on the 3D Warehouse, inspected them to see if they are botanically correct, and to see which type of plants they can represent, and then catalogue it. This was a truly herculean task since the warehouse hosts over half a thousand of plant models!
You can find the?botanically correct plant models catalogue?here. It is hosted by the OneCommunity Global group, who are a voluntary non-profit organization, who are creating open source sustainable resources for free use by everyone.
The following is a list of plants for which you can find models in that catalogue.
1.?Broadleaf deciduous trees
Oak, california bay, osage orange, yellowwood, kentucky coffee tree, soapbark, NCN, birch, maple, empress tree, sassafras, pecan, walnut, apricot, plum, almond, hazel, mulberry, pear, boldo, hackberry.
2.?Nitrogen fixing trees
Chestnut, apple, birch, hazel, boldo, elm, mesquite, Robinia/black locust, ice cream bean