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    • J Offline
      JPM
      last edited by

      Hello everyone
      I am new here and have never used a forum before. I was a Architectural draftsman for round about 18 years. I changed to outside plant fiber optic design when the economy tanked. I started using Google Earth to do base sheets for my design work and ran across Sketch Up a few weeks ago and fell in love. I am out here now trying to soak up everything I can.

      I am using the 7.1 free version
      There two things I would like to find out.

      1. What is the best way to print architecturally formated drawings,(Plans, Elevations and sections) and save these layouts for editing later?

      2. How do I create a mesh to represent the ground to set my house model on?

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        Gaieus
        last edited by

        Hi John and first of all welcome!

        As for architectural printing and presentation, the best choice would be to go Pro and use LayOut (an additional, 2D presentational tool interactively working with SU). Until you make up your mind, here are a couple of links how you can print to scale:
        http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=36227
        http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114462
        http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114459

        As for terrain modelling, use the Sandbox tools:
        http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=38496
        http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115432
        http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95050
        http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95052
        http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=116694

        (I'm not going to link every Help Center article here now as you can go on along the links there)

        Gai...

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        • J Offline
          JPM
          last edited by

          Gaieus
          Thanks for your help. I will check out all the links and be back soon.

          John

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            GoldenFrog
            last edited by

            If you want I can make a tutorial for the smoove tool (The one you use to make terrain)

            Remember, great minds think alike, and fools never differ.

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              Fishin_Chip
              last edited by

              Hi!
              I have been playing around with SketchUp for a couple of weeks now, mostly designing a utility rail, rack mount, and accessory system for my snowmobile. For such a simple program, the things you guys (and gals) are doing are amazing, far beyond anything I would likely ever attempt. My background is in carpentry and cabinetry, and most of my projects to this point were done in 2D drawing programs like CorelDraw. I hope to spend a little time surfing this site, learning about what I can do with this fantastic tool kit that is SketchUp. I will try to save most of my n00by questions until I have a better chance to look around.
              Thanks in advance.
              Chip

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                Gaieus
                last edited by

                Hi Dwayne and welcome!

                @fishin_chip said:

                My background is in carpentry and cabinetry...

                ...so I have added you to the Woodworker usergroup and now you can see (and post in) the Woodworking forum.

                @fishin_chip said:

                I will try to save most of my n00by questions until I have a better chance to look around.

                Take your time to look around but don't hesitate to as if you feel stuck somewhere.

                Gai...

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                  Nimagesang
                  last edited by

                  Hi, I've just registered an hour ago and a beginner for one month.

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                  • K Offline
                    Kman
                    last edited by

                    Hey, I'm Kman. I just signed up, and I've been doing SketchUp since early '07. This site has great Plug-ins, and AMAZING tutorials. I'm going to go set up my ACC a bit more.

                    When life gives you lemons, take them. Because hey... free lemons.

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      Hi Kman and welcome!

                      Gai...

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                        whiteninja
                        last edited by

                        hi guys, i'm a student landscape architect. i just started studying sketchup a week ago. just wanna introduce myself. πŸ˜†

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                        • GaieusG Offline
                          Gaieus
                          last edited by

                          Hi licus and welcome!

                          There are a couple of landscape architects here so you will be advised when you have questions.

                          As a very first advice; always keep an eye on poly count in SU as its is easy to go very high with lots of entourage, plants etc. Organise your model always very carefully and use layers extensively.

                          Gai...

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                            omiKron
                            last edited by

                            Hello, just registered here and hello everyone πŸ˜„

                            I use SketchUP since its first editions when I started to model 3D homes and garden developments or furnitures. πŸŽ‰

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              Hi omiKron and welcome!

                              @omikron said:

                              I use SketchUP since its first editions...

                              Oh, you must have been some 10 years old back then (when version 1 came out)!
                              πŸ˜„

                              Gai...

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                                dmcm85
                                last edited by

                                Good Morning. Newbie here - dmcm85.

                                I have used free Sketchup for several years and have used the Pro 7 version since it came out. (Convinced my company to buy because of my speed of concept sketches) I work on design and engineering using Sketchup as a concept and construction tool. Im exploring rendering plug-ins for my presentations. I work in the Audio Video Home Theater world and design/build furniture.
                                Thanks and I hope I can learn and help out.

                                dmcm85

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                                  Gaieus
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi David and welcome!

                                  In the Gallery we have a "Render applications home pages" sticky topic where there are tons of them listed.

                                  Hope to see some of your works!

                                  Gai...

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                                    Crisbduck
                                    last edited by

                                    Thought I'd say hiya,
                                    I'm doing architecture at uni, so thought I'd learn a lot more about sketch up and 3D modeling to help.
                                    Awesome site, I'd like to say thanks to whoever makes it possible

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                                      Gaieus
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi Cris and welcome!

                                      @crisbduck said:

                                      Awesome site, I'd like to say thanks to whoever makes it possible

                                      Remember that it's always the memberswho make a forum great. πŸ‘

                                      Gai...

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                                        jsinghur
                                        last edited by

                                        I figured it would be the kind thing to do and introduce myself. I am Jeff, I am an Exhibits Project Assistant at The Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. I do layout and starting on more exhibit design work. I have been using sketchup for a few months, but have a strong background with drafting/architectural design/and the like. I don't use the software so much for it's rendering purposes, but am starting to venture into it for presentation purposes. Basically I am using Sketchup in the museum world to make the redesigns easier and making it easier for communication to happen between the departments that need to make the decisions and just can't visualize things in their head easily.

                                        Hope that makes sense.

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                                          gilk
                                          last edited by

                                          hello everybody,
                                          I'm new to sketchup and just register sketchucation.
                                          Amazing website. No questions for the moment looking around and i'm really impressed,
                                          Can find near everything i need in the forum.
                                          Trying to help as soon as i be a real sketchup user.
                                          Thanks to the community for this excellent website.

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                                            Gaieus
                                            last edited by

                                            @jsinghur said:

                                            Basically I am using Sketchup in the museum world to make the redesigns easier and making it easier for communication to happen between the departments that need to make the decisions and just can't visualize things in their head easily.

                                            Hi Jeff and welcome. This sounds interesting (as I also do similar things although mostly not arranging exhibitions but creating virtual 3D stuff for exhibitions).

                                            @gilk said:

                                            I'm new to sketchup and just register sketchucation....
                                            Can find near everything i need in the forum...

                                            Welcome Gilk, just take your time and look around. During the years the forum system here has gone through so many changes that it's not too intuitive to find everything at the first sight!
                                            πŸ˜„

                                            Gai...

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