Which plugins to install?
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Hi guys,
I usually use 'vanilla' sketchup, so I dont use any plugins at all except for joint push pull.
I have an existing land survey that I have imported into sketchup, the land is quite steep so the proposed car parking area will require alot of earth work excavations. I'd like to try and model the car park to give the client an idea of the amount of excavation required. I'm finding sketchup pretty tough going with terrain modelling, the sandbox tools arent great, so are there any plugins that would be very helpful for me that I should be using for this job? Or is it a bad idea to attempt it in sketchup? The only thing I really model are nice straight buildings 99% of the time!
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Thomthom's Vertex Tools should fit the bill for this type of mesh transformation.
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instant architect series will help you. both free and pro versions... check it out.
Vali Architects | Instant Scripts | SketchUp plugins
Vali Architects | Instant Scripts - Vali Architects provides ruby scripts, tools and plugins for architectural modeling in SketchUp.
(www.valiarchitects.com)
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Since V8 is quite good at volume calcs now, try this.
Isolate the section of the terrain where the parking lot would be and make a copy of it.
Make that copy a component.
Edit the component with a simple drawing of the parking lot, then join the perimeter of the lot to the sloped/divergent perimeter of the terrain to be cut away.
Trim all loose ends.
Close.
The component should now be a "solid" and its volume displayed in "Entity Info".This should give you a very close approximation of the volume of the terrain that needs to be trucked away.
If you are not following this I can whip up a simple demo.
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TGI3d can create mesh with construction points and edit meshes.
SDS also contains features superior to sandbox.
SDS2 will blow you out of the water when it gets released.I havent had the chance to try the rest.
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Thanks for all your replies guys, I'll check out each suggestion.
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