A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members
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Welcome Cerevellum, hope you have a great time here as I'm sure you will.
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Hello All! I thought I would introduce myself. I have been using Sketchup for about 3 years but only recently for use at work. I attended the 3D Basecamp last week and that was an incredible experience to say the least.
I love forums and am quite involved in some other forums that cater to my interests and so I hope to become a regular here. I would like to be able to help answer questions as well as ask some of my own.
I started a blog a few months ago relating to the use of sketchup in the context of civil engineering. After this last week I realized the uses I have for Sketchup as a civil engineer are quite similar to those of an architect or landscape architect. I work for a city and basically, I use the software to display the designs of our projects to the public. I have also been working on creating a 3d Model of our city and exploring all other uses for sketchup and Google Earth.
Anyway, that's me. Feel free to check out my blog if you want. I am looking for others to contribute to the blog as well so let me know if you would like to contribute.
Google Sketchup for Civil Engineers
Sketchup is becoming a very popular program and tool for many different uses. Architects, interior designers, graphic artists... It also has its place in civil engineering. This blog is to share the things that I am learning about sketchup and for you all to post suggestions and your ideas. If you have an idea, email it to me and I can post your idea with pictures or video.
(www.civilsketchup.blogspot.com)
Thanks,
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Hi and welcome all who joined lately (I've been away at the BaseCamp and have not had the possibility to follow the events here).
I'm sure you'll have a great time here!
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Hi to everyone,
Im really glad to join here. Anyway, I joined here in my journey to try my hands in vray or kerykythea stuff as I find some works there and mixed with skecthup's sketchy style would work great(I think, I havent tried it yet).
The problem is I never plungged my hands into these photorealistic rendering ever before especially when sketchup came out (i use to draw manually with my presentations before and render it with photoshop or plain water color).
Is there any topic here that could help me start out?
Thanks. Hope I could contribute more soon as well.
Tesmeko
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Hi tesmeko and welcome to the forums!
I think for different render techniques as well as mixing them, you should really browse the Gallery. I remember Pete (solo) having made some really stunning mixtures of edge style output from SU combined with PR renders from Podium.
There was no particular tutorial about it however; he just combined the two images in PS (which - as you write above - I assume you can handle).
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Welcome Tesmeko,
You may find this thread by Mateo of interest:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=10621 -
Hi everyone! It's nice to join here. I've been using sketchup for around about a year now and i really enjoy it. i think i'm going to have a nice time here.
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Hi Jamie and welcome!
I'm sure you won't only "ask questions" but "answer them" in this section.
It's good to have experienced users aboard. (BTW - have I already said "welcome"?
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New here. I stumbled across this program while recently at one of my architects office. I searched for sketch up and now have the trial version on the house computer and office computer. I am an engineer, and use AutoCAD all the time, but found Sketchup a great tool for my playing around with floorplans.
Now for the questions. I am trying to import a CAD file cause I am looking to model a backyard & pool to design a cabana. I traced the plat map into cad, but I to be missing something when it comes into sketchup. The imported file has no surfaces or faces. The house is simple cause it has straight lines. The pool is completely curved with a hot tub. Do i have to trace the whole shape out to create the face?
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Welcome, and no you shouldnt have to trace the entire thing.
If you right click the imported stuff and click explode it should give you a load of stuff you can use in SU. From here you can either fill in the faces manually (by tracing a few lines) or use the makefaces ruby from smustard. Either way should work.
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@remus said:
Welcome, and no you shouldnt have to trace the entire thing.
If you right click the imported stuff and click explode it should give you a load of stuff you can use in SU. From here you can either fill in the faces manually (by tracing a few lines) or use the makefaces ruby from smustard. Either way should work.
Would that be an explode in autocad before inporting or explode in sketchup after importing? If in sketchup, where is that command?
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Thats an explode in SU. You get to it by right clicking the geometry->explode.
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Hello you guys, I'm new in this community.
I'm a sketchUp user for quite sometime but dont know about this forum, so I've been using SketchUp only in normal method w/out having knowledge that SketchUp could do more than I thought.
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Yeah, what James says; if you have any questions, don't be shy to post them here (or in any of the related subfoums)
BUTif you have anything to boast wit, PLEASE, post it in the Gallery!
And of course - WELCOME!
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hi im deathcloud a sketchup user i use sketchu-up pro 6 and rendering it with vray...i enjoyed using it and it helped me a lot in mywork.. imcurrently working on an architectural firm at the Philippines and i invite filipino architects to log on our forum arkinoy.tk im a newbie in this forum and expects to learn a lot from the pro... il try to post my works at the gallery thanks and God speed..
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Welcome JC and I'm looking forward to seeing your posts in the gallery!
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hi everybody my name "FEW" from thailand Iam architect and use su for design and presentation glad to meet you and hope everybody comment to my post for work than better thankyou
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Hiya peeps! I'm Michael, but frankly the whole interwebz knows me as BorgMan! I've been using SU5Pro for a couple of years now (from before the Google takeover), but I must say I'm quite happy with the program, with a switch to another 3D application nowhere near in sight. I usually model Star Trek (no cannon stuff, only my own) and sometimes dabble into architecture a bit; call it a hobby of mine
To be honest, the Google groups didn't really do it for me, so I decided to hop over here and see what you guys have to offer So... Hi
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Hi Few and BorgMan - welcome to SCF!
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Welcome Borgman....you should make a thread for your Hayden class ship in the Gallery here too, it's a perfect example of sketchup mastery.
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