Construction & Working Drawings - Discussion
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Thanks! It's really useful information.
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Technical images for a manual.
I rarely have ever been asked to prepare technical style drawings for clients (they know I avoid them). These are for a technical manual for the use of their panelised building system.
Wall section exported from Layout:
Another typical page of artwork exported from sketchup and rendered with maxwell:
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Following on from SketchUp's Section Tools improvements, I've released a follow on to my previous book on this subject. Construction Documentation Using SketchUp Pro 2020 is light years ahead of it's predecessor released in 2012.
SketchUp for Construction Documentation UPDATED (2024) | SketchUcation
Construction Documents using SketchUp Pro & LayOut by Paul Lee shows professionals & enthusiasts how to tie all the parts of SketchUp together to produce drawings that were traditionally the domain of CAD.
(sketchucation.com)
The book contains a course based around a building project that I designed and project managed years ago. I chose this project as it's the right balance of simple/ complex- You spend the least amount of time getting the maximum experience.
I've been writing this book on and off for 2 years, preparing the concept and polishing the models to make them user friendly. Each of the 120 or so pages is carefully put together to make the steps easy to follow.
I'm going to be doing a few videos from it shortly. I'm still working on the website to place some cool resources on it. The idea for the website is to focus on construction documentation and BIM.
In the meantime, here's a short extract from the book for you to download- My 5 killer shortcuts. Hopefully it will download OK.
https://viewsion.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/5_Killer_Shortcuts-for_SketchUp_Pro.pdf -
@fionmacool said:
Following on from SketchUp's Section Tools improvements, I've released a follow on to my previous book on this subject. Construction Documentation Using SketchUp Pro 2020 is light years ahead of it's predecessor released in 2012.
SketchUp for Construction Documentation UPDATED (2024) | SketchUcation
Construction Documents using SketchUp Pro & LayOut by Paul Lee shows professionals & enthusiasts how to tie all the parts of SketchUp together to produce drawings that were traditionally the domain of CAD.
(sketchucation.com)
The book contains a course based around a building project that I designed and project managed years ago. I chose this project as it's the right balance of simple/ complex- You spend the least amount of time getting the maximum experience.
I've been writing this book on and off for 2 years, preparing the concept and polishing the models to make them user friendly. Each of the 120 or so pages is carefully put together to make the steps easy to follow.
I'm going to be doing a few videos from it shortly. I'm still working on the website to place some cool resources on it. The idea for the website is to focus on construction documentation and BIM.
In the meantime, here's a short extract from the book for you to download- My 5 killer shortcuts. Hopefully it will download OK.
https://viewsion.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/5_Killer_Shortcuts-for_SketchUp_Pro.pdfHas SketchUp Pro 2020 been released? Did you have early access to SUP2020?
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Maybe 2020 refers to the version of the BOOK not the SW.
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@pbacot said:
Maybe 2020 refers to the version of the BOOK not the SW.
I also thought of that, but the lack of punctuation infers otherwise.
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@pbacot said:
Maybe 2020 refers to the version of the BOOK not the SW.
Hey thanks for asking that question. Yes the book refers to the year not the software.
However...
The updates to 2020 will be covered on my website http://www.sketchup.expert
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Look forward to seeing when its ready to be released, fionmacool!
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Can anyone recommend the Sketchup Construction Documents book from first hand experience?
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