Posts made by marvins_dad

Fort Worth Council Chambers Fort Worth, TX
Sketchup and Enscape...currently waiting for permitting.

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@ntxdave said:

Really great! I wish I had the talent/skill to do stuff like this.

How long does it take to draw models like this and what tools/plugins do you use?

Again:

It's a constant tweaking for 2-3 months for most of these. We typically meet with the client every 2 weeks during Schematics and update the exterior/interior model as we go. I use the royal we, but I'm doing the SketchUp and presentations.
I've been taking on more and more responsibilities over the design direction with each project.

I've been using minimal plugins, but Windowizer gets reinstalled with every upgrade. I rely on that heavily for quick designwork.
Was an early adopter of Lumion starting at Lumion v1..we still carry a copy of that. I utilize Thea Render when I want really good looking stills and know we aren't going to do a fly around. I finally caved in and started to use Enscape on these last few projects because another Architect we were working with wanted to match interior/exterior feel.

Celina Police (under construction)

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@rich o brien said:

8 yrs with 2 yrs deducted for good behaviour?

LOL - Thanks Rich! I was wondering if I wasn't welcome when it wouldn't let me log in from a thread...went to the main page and it was happy with me.

Fayetteville Police - Fayetteville, AR

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8 years and no updates, what's up with that guy?

Plano Police McDermott Precinct

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Thanks for sharing!

I tried pasting them into the Ruby console and got this...

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@tig said:

Of course just Clearing the Guides would have fixed it...
I fixed another guys issue with a corrupted SKP... he'd managed to get a line that had an end was so far away from the origin nothing showed at all.
By using Sketchup.active_model.bounds.max and Sketchup.active_model.bounds.min it became clear that his model was actually several zillion times bigger that the visible universe
This is fixable by 'filtering' Sketchup.active_model.active_entities.grep(Sketchup::Edge).find_all{|e| ### } - tests for extreme bounds/lengths and then if there are only one or two erase! them to get back to sanity...

Having the same issue.
Cleared guides, moved model to center on origin and drilled into all my groups that looked larger than they should to clear out all the hidden mess there.

How do you run those scripts to find out?

I've been looking at those, leaning more towards the Lenovo version at the moment. Thanks!

Great, Thanks!

A little late to the show, but noticed this last month when researching VR and saw that it works with Revit and SketchUp...so that's a plus for my firm.

Then I ran across a thread in their forum discussing the Oculus Go and noticed Pete on their...maybe it was his question. Anyway, actually learned a lot about VR headsets from that thread and how people are using them with clients.

My quick question is about portability and VR...has anyone played with that yet?
Revit Live requires the model to be uploaded to the cloud then downloaded to run...which I think is ridiculous when you have the computing power to do it...but what about portability. You can't always rely on robust internet access if you take the setup to a client.

Can you run Enscape from a muscle powered laptop for a walkthrough in VR? Without internet access?

@ntxdave said:

@marvins_dad said:

Thanks man!

You need to organize and lead SketchUp Users Group in Dallas

LOL - I'm just doing my best to keep my head above water with SketchUp and Revit.
Pete's really the star in the area!

Thanks though.

Thanks man!

Here's Grapevine Public Safety Building...We opened it yesterday!

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And the built project...

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Richardson Heights in Richardson, TX - modeled in SketchUp, then Revit...but rendered in Lumion (just shortly after they added interior lights as a feature.
Now that pool would be full of Lumion people, for sure.

https://youtu.be/kIDbYhOIImU

@ntxdave said:

Some really great looking work. Another north Texan that makes me feel very inadequate....

I have also been looking at the VR stuff with SimLab Composer 8.0.7. Some interesting stuff. There animation tools seem pretty powerful as well.

Solo, they mix rendering with animation that has some capabilities that match both Animator and MS Physics.

Wish I could learn from some of you guys but I just do not have the artistic talents that most of you possess.

Thanks Dave!

I'll have to check out those since we are really just starting to investigate VR, how we can use it and how far to go with it. We've only used Lumion's tools since we already own it.

Looking to see if I had uploaded one of my Lumion fly throughs I came across this video...this is for a project that I don't think I have posted about. NRH (North Richland Hills) - City Hall, Public Safety and Courts building. A quite large project!

Apparently the metal panel supplier created this video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwrrvmKDQrs

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@solo said:

Great stuff mate, planning on adding animations in the future?

I'll have to check and see if any of my Lumion movies are worthy of showing off.

We have started playing with the Lumion VR feature recently though - so maybe at some point that will be something to share.

BTW - love the avatar Solo.