Best Method for working with at project team?
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Hello -
We are working with an out-of-office consultant (interior designer) on a large residential project and would like to be able to coordinate our Sketchup work as seamlessly as possible. Within our office, we have worked using the method of updating external components within a model using right-click "save-as" and "reload" and it has worked reasonably well.
We use Dropbox and could work with our consultant in a similar manner, but because the consultant is not extremely adept at using Sketchup, I'm concerned that things could be confusing and get screwed up pretty quickly. The "Master File" (from our office) is about 70MB and quite complex, but well organized in terms of layer naming / management.
I'm wondering if we should just occasionally send the consultant updated versions of our model and let them copy our information into their model and vice versa(?) Is it worth trying to use the Dropbox / external component method, or would I be asking for trouble?
Thanks for any feedback you may have.
Doug
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I havn't had to use project teams within Sketchup. However, I think that having other project team members woking on components and someone in your office placing the components is the only way to go.
You would need to supply a template file with style, layers etc to the other team members. But how well it will work will depend on how well the other team members follow your template.
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I think it might be worth looking at Trimble connect in your case. The idea is using the cloud to sync models.
You can give him a component or a global project to manage and sync parts of the model or the whole model:
SketchUp Extension Warehouse
Your library of custom third-party extensions created to optimize your SketchUp workflow.
(extensions.sketchup.com)
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