Do you SketchUp?

gamblingman

gamblingman

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I do, its a great little program from Google. I have a tough time NOT spending hours with it (I mean that in a good way). Try it an see for yourself.

http://sketchup.google.com/

For those of you who know what I'm talkin about, post your creations!

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Yeah, yeah I know its missing windows. I'm working on it! This took me a few hours. The interior is full as well. I didnt just create a shell with no interior, what would be the point???
 
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i'm in architecture school and i use it every semester. i draft the plan in autocad and import it in sketchup to build a digital model. it can be really fun, or an absolute pain depending on what you want to do on it.

by the way, if you didn't know this already, sketchup rendering is quick, but crap. if you ever want to spend the time to really make something look good, download a rendering software (i use maxwell and/or vray, both of which i recommend).

i might load up some of my past work here later
 
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How is it crap? I know that its kinda flimsy, and can be hard to get dimensions right, but what do you mean?

I'd love to see some of your stuff, definitely post it!

I mainly use sketchup for playing, its given me a better understanding of design work. I can look at buildings and know if they are cookie cutter or not. For instance the dorm I live in is very cookie-cutter design. I can usually tell if its cheaply designed if the stairwells are on the outside of a building. That seems to scream CHEAP DESIGN WORK!

What do you think?
 
gamblingman said:
How is it crap? I know that its kinda flimsy, and can be hard to get dimensions right, but what do you mean?

I'd love to see some of your stuff, definitely post it!

I mainly use sketchup for playing, its given me a better understanding of design work. I can look at buildings and know if they are cookie cutter or not. For instance the dorm I live in is very cookie-cutter design. I can usually tell if its cheaply designed if the stairwells are on the outside of a building. That seems to scream CHEAP DESIGN WORK!

What do you think?
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what i meant by it being crap is...sketchup is a great program. it's very intuitive with a simple user interface anyone can get to understand. however, its rendering is crap. rendering refers to applying color, texture, and light to your model, and it comes as a plugin that you can install on your sketchup software that, well, renders the 3d environment you have created. by utilizing the materials database off of sketchup or downloading them online, you can begin to add texture and detail to your building/furniture/whatever. you can add light to light fixtures and adjust lumins to brighten an interior space. you can apply a polished marble effect to a lobby floor that makes it look realistic (even with manufacturing imperfections included if you wish) with an adjustable light reflectance factor, and so on.

and yes, unfortunately most dorms are a cookie cutter design. in fact, most living quarters of any kind is because they need lots of it and they can't customize each and every one, and their only concern is efficiency, safety, and money

if you are interested in architecture, look up renzo piano, tadao ando, zaha hadid, richard meier, and frank lloyd wright. just google their name and the image section should speak for themselves as to who they are
 
this was a 4th year project that i designed. it is a museum for photography. my concept was "breaking the 4th wall." this was drafted by hand, transferred to autocad, imported into sketchup and made 3-d, then rendered it using a maxwell plugin.

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one more project. this was an intervention on an existing bridge over a detention pond. it's a small house on the bridge.

note: i did not design the cars or the dining room table. those are downloaded from google 3d warehouse

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doug your pictures are great too. did you actually model those yourself on sketchup? i have never even heard of nx4.

i dunno if you actually modeled those yourself or just applied and adjusted textures and light, but it looks great. i can get a good idea of the quality of things like this by the amount of attention to detail and those are great.
 
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All that stuff was made in sketchup!?

I cant imagine the time it took to model that stuff, simply amazing.
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in the first project i uploaded (museum), i still have nightmares about those guard rails and vertical web joists. they are typical elements that i drew but there were so many of them. i'm sure you might know this by now but it's not just a matter of copy/paste (although thank god for those) and it's just frustrating to line them up sometimes if you have skewed angles. and the computer i used at the time wasn't great, so all those entities really slowed my computer down.

fyi, i estimate the museum project took me a solid 60+ hours to model. the renders in my museum project took 6 hours each, and the ones in the bridge project took about 4 hours each (i get to set how long it renders for, and obviously the longer it is, the more detailed and clear it is).

and thanks for the compliments, although you may have just been directing them at the camera :)
 
Guardian01 said:
doug your pictures are great too. did you actually model those yourself on sketchup? i have never even heard of nx4.

i dunno if you actually modeled those yourself or just applied and adjusted textures and light, but it looks great. i can get a good idea of the quality of things like this by the amount of attention to detail and those are great.
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Unigraphics NX4. It's a CAD software. I modelled the objects, then added the textures, lights etc. They are from first and second year uni projects. This year I am going to be modelling public transport, so a bit bigger.
 
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