Here is a recent project-Twin Tunnels widening on I70 in Colorado...for those of you who attended base camp, you drove through these (and quite possibly sat in traffic because of the project...)

Existing terrain came from LIDAR processed into triangles in Microstation. Everything else was modeled in SU from CAD drawings and largely from scratch. Getting the geometry of the sprial 'hood extensions' on the tunnels was challenging because of the rotation of the form combined with the curvature of the spiral combined with the tapering of the form (the 'cap' tapered in size and the distance it stood off the rest of the form tapered as well).

I will probably be taking this one into Vue in the next month or two.

Comments welcome!

I also attached a photo showing a comparison of the tunnels before and after widening, and a photo showing the inside while under construction.

Jon

Thanks for the comments.

Yeah I agree on the paving-good catch! I was considering adding some vehicles too for scale, which may have helped, but the focus needed to be on the architecture of the building and the use of the project site.

As for Vue, the main reasons I love using it are the vegetation tools (ecosystems, solid growth plants, etc.) and the terrain editing tools (although I created the terrain for this project in SketchUp).

Jon

Hi all,

its been a while since I have posted...here is a recent project that I completed. It is for the Plant Environmental Research Center (PERC) of a large university. The entire PERC operation may be relocated to this location in the future, so the Greenhouse facility is a proposed building (the architect and the university were my client), and the site is shown as being redeveloped for research sites ranging from crops to research trees to wetlands to water quality areas.

Model was built in Sketchup (Greenhouse began as floorplans in CAD), and the rendering was done in Vue Infinite. As always, comments welcome!

there is a full size rendering of it available in this forum:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=40151&start=30
could maybe ask alvis to post a hidden geometry view, might be worth the $3 to explore the details of the model though...

if you click on the banner, it will bring you to the list of tutorials-i think this one is MP07

C&C welcome...

3d warehouse:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=2ddd600ece6acc46fe6934cbf16f842a

could you provide a picture of what you are trying to model?

This was a quick little interior project for a multi-purpose room (remodel) in a library...feedback always welcome! p.s. Im not a big fan of the white silhouttes (they kinda get lost), but these were done to match the style of previous renderings done by the architect for different areas of the same project.

Once you have the mesh created, you can use the Tools on Surface plugin and the Joint Push Pull plugin, but it would take a bit of time...