[TheForge] Sketchup

[Jerry Frost]

I've been playing with it a little bit and have the 
shop walls, roof, garage door and the stove in place. 
Getting the stove pipe vertical was a pain seeing as 
the push/pull tool does so perpendicular to the plane 
it starts on. That's reasonable of course, I'd be 
ticked if it didn't do it that way.

If you're talking about making scale furniture 
components and arranging them in the space, I've got 
that covered in any number of programs. I designed our 
house 10 years ago, with 3D Home Architect and was able 
to show Deb and myself exactly what was going to happen 
if we put a wall THERE. <shrieks of horror!!!> That one 
is designed to render furnished rooms, etc. down to 
house plants and let you take tours of the results. I'm 
sure more recent versions are WAY better or maybe just 
more complicated and expensive. <grin> Autocad just got 
more complex and expensive without significant 
improvement over the last 10 years or so. Personally I 
think it peaked at V 12.

I design things with Autocad in 2D with no trouble but 
sometimes visualizing the results can be a pain, 
especially when one's experience in a particular field 
is limited. If I'd had more experience I would've laid 
things out differently here but houses, barns and shops 
aren't in the same scale I'm used to.

What I'm really looking forward to with Sketchup is 
being able to plant future structures, fences, cupola 
melters, pits, or whatever in the google earth image of 
our place. Heck, if it works I could show you what my 
shop would look like in YOUR yard. <grin>

Anyway, any tips are welcome.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Saint Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>


> Yeah, I've been using it, fairly frequently. It's 
> pretty user
> friendly, but it's a lot better to use for making 
> something that LOOKS
> like (for example) a table, rather than actually 
> BUILDING a table.
>
> That said, I'd be happy to send you off a file that 
> shows what I came
> up with when I was designing/arranging my new apt.It 
> was pretty
> helpful for figuring out what I had to work with, and 
> fitting it in a
> sensible arrangement.
>
> -- 
> Saint Phlip
>