Who's been how long.
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Hi folks.
I have been using SketchUp since version 3.0.
I began participating actively in forums dedicated to SketchUp with the @last forum, then SketchUcation, then Google, then Trimble.
I also posted a few times on Abvent forum in French.
Best regards.
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I was told about SketchUp by my soon to be boss in a job interview. I downloaded the 8 hour trial that night (version 2) and created a nursing home exterior I had been doing floor plans for. I sent the images to my interviewer and his response was "You're hired". So SketchUp got me a job. I was fairly active on the @last forums and moved here the day Coen started SketchUcation and have been around annoying everyone ever since.
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I can attest to that.
But Eric is one of the Awesome Annoyers!
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Version 3 for me. I still have the CD it came on. I blame Todd Burch.
@Rich, how did I make you stick with it? Out of sympathy?
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Short answer: SU5, (2005?)
Originally trained as a graphic designer in the UK but quickly fell in love with wood and craftsmanship. Was a fair hand with a pencil and always planned out my pieces to the max but was often very frustrated with how they turned out. I knew I needed 3D. Started using some free program, can't remember the name, and it was working, but sooo slow and clunky. Found SU5, (2002?) bought it 3 hours into the trial. Joined the @last forum. Asked all the usual noobie questions, "Help, can't make a face!" Was devastated when it got googled. Quickly joined this forum in 2007. (Thank you Coen and all the others).
I have learned such a lot about form and function and people in my time with SU and the fab folks here.
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Since we're getting all nostalgic and bleary eyed...
http://web.archive.org/web/20030817021557/http://www.sketchup.com/forum/list.php?f=4A few recognisable names here.
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Well, I took a moment and looked at my member profile. It says I joined in March 2008, back when Coen was looking for a place to stay for one of the Base Camp events and Gaieus (Csaba) was active.
I learned so much from this forum and was truly amazed at how friendly everyone was that I felt compelled to give back by offering whatever information I could to those who asked.
I have been less active here in the last couple of years due to changes in work and so forth, but I still check in from time to time.
Best Regards to all.
Tim -
It just turned eight years for me as well.
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Early 2005 for me when it was still @Last......best thing I ever bought.
About a year later I found Kerkythea...and then Twilight Render and Thea Render.
Wish I could remember how I found out about SketchUp...
.....one thing is for sure, I owe someone a beautiful bottle of South Australian wine as a reward (I wonder how many will now claim they told me....!!)
SketchUp was a game changer for me and it gave me the confidence to embrace the 3D world of design entirely which eventually led me to ArchiCad in 2010.....by then it was "bye bye drawing boards" (although every so often I still do a little freehand sketching)
The forums were brilliant back then (and still are of course)
Do we have a thread for the good old freehand perspective drawings ?...now that would very nostalgic...!!
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@alan fraser said:
Since we're getting all nostalgic and bleary eyed...
http://web.archive.org/web/20030817021557/http://www.sketchup.com/forum/list.php?f=4A few recognisable names here.
Awesome link Alan. I remember it well.
Started using version 3 after being "stuck" with Autocad and it's cumbersome 3d capabilities. It's been a professional life changer.
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@gareth said:
Do we have a thread for the good old freehand perspective drawings ?...now that would very nostalgic...!!
You could start one Gareth, would be very interesting. ( I could 'probly dig up a couple ).
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2.1 if I'm not mistaken.
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You can follow the link I posted earlier, but you can also find it archived at sketch3d.com
http://web.archive.org/web/20040604083405/http://www.sketch3d.com/BTW, although the images don't seem to have saved, most of the links to the uploaded skp files on the old forum seem to be still live. Just wait for the redirect.
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@baz said:
@gareth said:
Do we have a thread for the good old freehand perspective drawings ?...now that would very nostalgic...!!
You could start one Gareth, would be very interesting. ( I could 'probly dig up a couple ).
Ok mate......will start one up tomorrow.....could be fun...!!
I have quite a few.....my scanner will get a good workout.
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There were some old "doodle" threads. . .Some that I enjoyed posting into. . .
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179%26amp;t=10348%26amp;hilit=doodle
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179%26amp;t=42430%26amp;hilit=+doodles
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I've seen your sketches Dave and they are quite amazing....!!
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thanks.
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Your sketches look great, David.
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Oh boy. I do believe I started with version 1.2, or at any rate, before you could smooth curves. I remember feeling drunk with power when smoothing was finally possible! I was pretty active in the @last forum—I remember Alan Fraser, Mayor Mike and Susan Sorger most of all. One memory in particular: One of the guys on the @last forum (my brain is telling me his name was Steven, but I can't be sure) had a serious health problem and was stuck in a hospital in Milwaukee. We all pitched in and bought him a laptop so he could SketchUp in bed. What an effort of brotherly affection!
I still have the tutorial to make SketchUp output into pretty decent watercolors somewhere in the server here at work.
The first model I shared was a Titanic deck chair that I spent hours on. Looked exactly like the one in the FormFonts catalogue
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Started with SU just after buying my first PC. Back in the day of V3 (2002/2003?). Actually only a month or so ago I came across the original CD, surprised I had a CD in the house let alone my first version of SU!!
I can recall the very reasons for buy sketchup in the first place. I'd just bought my PC and landed a nice unit project, invested in Autocad light but couldn't get my head around it fast enough to start on this project so found I could do everything in Microsoft WORD - site plans, floor plans, elevations the works. Then the council came back and asked for a perspective!! Though I'd done a lot of these by hand in earlier years I figured I search to see if there was a simple software solution! BAM sketchup!
After what would have only been a few hours I managed to knock out at least some very simple images to supply council.
Here is that first ever work from my first time with SU and one of the original elevations produced with WORD.
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