Pretty cool!

@mitcorb said:

electricdoodle:

Based on what your other respondents have stated, I want to apologize if any comments I offered misled you. I made an assumption based on your illustration, and gave my opinion. It looked to be within my realm of experience.
I am glad that some of the more experienced folks here were able to shed some light and hopefully help you with your issue.
And, my apologies to this forum and anyone else who may have been misled by my comments.
I wish you good fortune in your future modeling.
Sincerely,
mitcorb

mitcob, no need to apologize - because of my inexperience my question was undoubtedly ambiguous. You reaised some useful points which I have added to my 'tool set' for the future...

One thing I am beginning to understand about SketchUp is there isn't just one way to do anything, or solve a particular problem, but several options from which you can choose (or even use combinations) depending on your specific model.

I've appreciated all the suggestions I have recived.

ED

This link has been posted before. It looks cool, but it's early days!

Looks cool, but the problem with such real-time renderers is that they rely on reflection maps, and thus reflections only look good in curved surfaces. But it's still cool. If I only had a Mac...

@gaieus said:

@broomstick said:

@gaieus said:

Note that "by profession" I use SU for archaeological/historic reconstructions. Apart from that, I mostly hang around these forums and model whatever people with problems need.

That's enormously interesting! Do you find yourself well with SU in such a way of work?

Which one?Archaeology or help forum work? 😄

Well, joking aside; SU IS the perfect tool for this. You can never make sure that what you imagine to be a reconstruction of a building you only dig up the foundations of will be good. With SU, you can always go back and quickly adjust your theory to the facts as more and more evidence come to light and the idea is getting a final shape.

Right! I should have quoted you better. Apart from that, your take is really interesting 😉

Nice going Stephen. Keep up the good work. Interesting mods.