Question for the Pros
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This is geared toward those that do pre-vis for a living.
I'm wondering what kind of materials you are usually provided with by the Architect or the Builder or the Marketing people in order to create your models? Are they turning over big 'ol paper plans? PDFs? .DWGs? .DWFs?
I have a background in Construction and know that in my city the architects all seem to be a bit behind the times and to get any kind of computer file from them is like pulling teeth. The one time I saw an architect turn over a DWG file containing elevations the file was a MESS. I had hoped that faces could be added, elevations rotated, and connected, etc. but 90% of the lines were broken or not connected making it impossible to work from.
Do you work from paper drawings? If so what process do you use to build upon it? Do you scan the drawings and import them as a texture that you trace over and push pull from?
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if you want to be accurate the solution is to take measures from paper drawing and re-draw all into sketchup, otherwise you can do as you said, but don't aspect precision!
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I found some useful stuff on youtube that actually taught me some new stuff. (Which is always good.)
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