A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members

eriksenmark · 10 Feb 2010, 16:36

Hi,
My name is Mark and I'm hoping to learn to draw building floor plans that I can later make 3d and go inside. I want to build an addition on my house so I thought I'd try that first. I made a basic floor plan of my existing house but just used lines. I'm thinking that was a mistake and I'll probably have to start over. What are the best tools to use to get started from scratch?

bantymom · 15 Feb 2010, 06:35

Hello,

I'm a very basic user of SketchUp. The only tricky thing I can do is sometimes get "Follow me" to work which I learned when I wanted to model a heated towel bar with curved metal tubes. I was so proud of myself!. I love SU! I modeled up the tile layout of my bathroom which saved me from all manner of misunderstandings with the tile guys! I have laid out poultry pens (I raise show chickens) and have been slowly working on a model of the Vila of Papyri (very slowly). Currently, I am trying out various profiles of crown moulding for the same bathroom as the tile.

Gaieus · 15 Feb 2010, 11:09

Hi Bantymom and glad you could make it through your email issues.

These sound interesting (especially the villa )

Welcome to the forums!

Rich O Brien · 15 Feb 2010, 23:53

Here you'll find basic info on what each button/tab does in the styles dialog box...

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(sketchup.google.com)

This button will let you browse to your chosen style and apply it

CRSeventy · 16 Feb 2010, 00:02

@unknownuser said:

Here you'll find basic info on what each button/tab does in the styles dialog box...

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(sketchup.google.com)

This button [attachment=0:129ue3hn]Details Button.jpg[/attachment:129ue3hn] will let you browse to your chosen style and apply it

I downloaded some styles shared by Lin.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=181498#p181498

I want to try to use them and I can't seem to get them into the Styles window.

Also, How can I edit my profile?

Kind regards,
Chuck

CRSeventy · 16 Feb 2010, 00:12

Hello,

Just joined and I'm glad to be here. I already have a stupid question...

How do I import new styles into the Sketch Up program.

Kind regards,
Chuck

Rich O Brien · 16 Feb 2010, 00:41

U can edit your profile in your User Control Panel at the top of the page.

Styles can be saved in your styles folder for windows pc( don't know for mac?) which is located in program file/google.... Etc

then they are accessible from styles dialog box. Any styles you creates yourself can be saved too using the styles dialog box by 'add to collection' button.

But it's been awhile since I played with styles

Oh and welcome

bantymom · 16 Feb 2010, 02:06

@gaieus said:

Hi Bantymom and glad you could make it through your email issues.

These sound interesting (especially the villa )

Welcome to the forums!

Yes, thank you very much for helping with that.

The villa is very hard, but I'm not in a hurry. I'm enjoying it. The hardest part was finding a large enough picture of the sketch of the site. I have the Getty museum version, of course, but I doubt it was made to be correct. Not that I have the knowledge to make it correct either, but I'm only doing it for fun. I think it must have been beautiful.

Flatchoum · 16 Feb 2010, 08:39

Bonjour tout le monde! Sorry for my english, but I'm not sure to find all the informations I need on the french forums. So I came here... I'm Greg, working in an architecture studio, and always need to go further in this amazing software. I'll have some questions soon, no doubt. Thank you by advance for the answers, I'll try to show the (r)evolution in my works online. Have a good day!

Gaieus · 16 Feb 2010, 09:11

Hi Greg as well and welcome. To make sure, I have added you to the French usergroup (you can join any public UG's under your User control panel > Usergroups tab ).

Flatchoum · 17 Feb 2010, 09:25

Thanks Gaieus! I had a look on it. But something very frustrating happens; there 's a bunch aof interresting plugins or attached pictures that I've not the permission to see. Did something fail during my registration? Are the newbies under a quarantine for a while? And I always have to login again. Does it come from my settings? I'm on Mac. Thanks

Gaieus · 17 Feb 2010, 12:26

There is no quarantine for newbies of course - I don't know what's happening with your account. Maybe try to clear your browser cookies (see this announcement , too).

Macca61 · 18 Feb 2010, 12:19

Hi
Another newbie i am particularly interested in hull forms on ships although i have just started out on this i get the impression there is an add on that will help with modelling these curves.
Any advice or info would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Gordon

Rambola · 21 Feb 2010, 23:30

Hi all.

I found SketchUp yesterday. I had a homework that was to decorate an apartment. It wasent the funniest thing to do so i started to look after some fun programs. Then i walked over this one. I decided to try it out and i liked it very much . Im a totally nowbie to everything who has with 3D stuff and so. Ive only done an oven with very few details. I count that one as my real first model. But it aint done yet and its just one part in my apartment. I will look on some tutorials and try to get better, much better.

Thats all from me right now.

Gaieus · 22 Feb 2010, 10:00

Hi Rambola and welcome!

That oven (even if not the most exciting subject) is a very impressive and pretty "first model" actually!

Congrats!
(You should see what I did first...)

merc · 22 Feb 2010, 15:37

OOPs
sorry-I started a whole new post to say hello. It is a few post down, titled 'Hello'.
Maybe a Mod can move the contents here and delete that thread.

Gaieus · 23 Feb 2010, 10:10

Never mind, Paul. It's just a sign of your good manners!
Welcome to SCF!

cowboytech · 26 Feb 2010, 03:24

Just an introduction. I've worked on computers for 42 years, own my own computer business since 1984, took 2 years of drafting some time back (about 30 years, I think). I've played with Sketchup and like it, but thought I'd try doing more. Not exactly an artist, but I love detail... thought that might help me. Guess that's it for now...

Thedesktopdude · 27 Feb 2010, 15:38

Hello ive used sketch up for alot of things for a long time and some plugins happend to catch my eye here ive just tested them and there brilliant

profile:
Name:Daniel Surname:longmire age: 17 almost 18
Reason for joining: awesome plugins and looks like a nice community

sketch up use: non commercial game design Eg. mod

so yeah thats me pleased to be a part of sketchucation

and about the plugins ive never seen something as usefull as that in sketch up O_O

heres something a drew
didnt make the chracter it was made by valve of tf2 just the night vision kit is mine

err someone move this to some were more appropriate xD thanks

asdfgh746 · 28 Feb 2010, 21:43

Introducing me!

Hey, I'm not a newbie to sketchup, and I've used many of the scripts now, I'd say I'm an amateur veteran.

Anyways, welcome to me!