Structural Steel animation
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How about a little structural steel detailing job?
All Sketchup and Layout.
Once I get the animations done, I will be putting together shop drawing slideshows, along with some fabrication and installation pictures.
Putting these things together is time consuming...
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@otb designworks said:
Putting these things together is time consuming...
really?
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@otb designworks said:
Putting these things together is time consuming...
I imagine it was very time consuming but well worth the time / effort as there will more than likely be a 'pay off' when it comes to manufacture, fabrication and erection. There is little left to the imagination so no excuses for mistakes!
Thanks for posting, its nice to see this type of SU work ...... its not all about nice pictures
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@mike lucey said:
@otb designworks said:
Putting these things together is time consuming...
I imagine it was very time consuming but well worth the time / effort as there will more than likely be a 'pay off' when it comes to manufacture, fabrication and erection. There is little left to the imagination so no excuses for mistakes!
Thanks for posting, its nice to see this type of SU work ...... its not all about nice pictures
That was exactly how fabrication and installation went. A few snafus from the fab side of things (very insignificant and easy to fix) and everything pretty much just clicked together. I know the GC's were very pleased with the steel company, so that's all we are looking for!
And what do you mean, mike? My lurid, color-coded VBE
s aren't nice pictures? Haha, just kidding; I for sure know what you meant... -
I thought it was beautiful. I liked the dance of the stairs. Yes I wonder how you get paid enough for all this.
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nice Chuck (again)
i like the black background.. gonna have to borrow that idea from you
thanks for sharing
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Thanks guys!
I market (really my entire VBE
career has been word of mouth) myself as a builder and fabricator with 25 years of on-site experience who taught himself Sketchup, et al.Builders and contractors really appreciate having a builder on the other side of the VBE
. That's why I call it a virtual build, because it is, in all seriousness, built by a builder as if he was building it on site. No automation, no parametric input, no glossing over details. I build every part of it. So, I find all the things that wouldn't be found until on site and causing delays. And I almost always have suggestions for solutions that end up being what happens. It helps that my go-to engineer loves the VBE and can work with it without needing a bunch of superfluous drawings. These guys finally have someone who thinks like they do, understands their world, and can produce drawings, models, and animations. I can be as addicting as heroin, I have been told, haha.On the very complicated jobs, being able to design the timbers and hardware and then produce shop drawing for all the fabricators ensures that there are minimal installation unexpectedness. Over 50% of my work is on jobs out of state that I have never visited; and often, I will be feeding shops to companies in two or three different states.
After 8 years of this, I have a "family" of contractors and fabricators who use me for all their projects because I make their life better and less stressful, and, most importantly, everything works and fits when it hits site.
I just laugh when architects look at my VBE
's and wish they looked prettier. They in no way understand that this is a tool and not just a pretty model to watch.Jeff, I go back and forth with the black background. It makes things a little harder to see than if I went with white and edges, but I think the black, especially when I am using color-coded VBE
's makes for a more dramatic effect. And since these animations are usually after-the-fact marketing products, more dramatic is better. -
@pbacot said:
I thought it was beautiful. I liked the dance of the stairs. Yes I wonder how you get paid enough for all this.
Thank you sir!
Well, enough is a relative term, you know?
Spending days making animations that I don't get paid for can be a bit of drag, but, after putting the effort into these jobs, if I don't generate any presentation materials, I haven't done myself any favors.When a prospective client comes in, sees these animations and 600-700 pages of technical shop drawings, they tend to believe that I can be their solution without too much discussion.
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Nice animation. Shop drawings produced in layout?
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All 2D documents were produced in Layout.
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