We're releasing version 0.2 of the Pachube2SketchUp plug-in we first announced a few months ago at HomeCamp 08 in London.
With this tool, you are able to import both realtime and historic Pachube data (i.e. sensor and environment data) into popular 3D CAD package Google SketchUp. The incoming data can be used to generate or modulate a 3D model of a building or environment, and enables sophisticated design-decisions that are based on actual (and not simulated) sensor and environment data. Possible uses include designing interactive façades, undertaking post-occupancy evaluation (which is where you evaluate how well the design performs) and sensor-based form generation.
Here's a video introduction – it's very basic, but shows how incoming Pachube data can modulate 3D elements (in this case just blocks) inside SketchUp:
This demo shows real-time water, gas and energy usage from a building management system being graphed on top of a model of the building. Although in this demo the data is merely driving simple scalar transformations to visualize energy usage, the real potential of the plug-in is to serve Pachube data to real-world design tools to directly inform design decisions in a much more sophisticated way.
Download the plug-in and see the tutorial here: http://community.pachube.com/sketchup
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