@gilles said:

In this case all your windows or most of them will be different.
Can you imagine the cost of this?

Ye, but atleast all put my monster rig to good use
(If you mean cont of production, Im doing this project as an experiment)

@unknownuser said:

ZBrush is only 699 $
Sculptris, Blender 0 $

Only.. Tell that to a kid thats 15 xD

@gilles said:

Do you mean your walls are not vertical?

Yes Thanks, I ment the wholes are slanted in different directions. Each floor is different. This is why I think a "paint surfaces with component" could be very useful

window.skp

I tried using the component stringer. It works fine in most cases until you get to unevenly oriented/slanted walls (e.g one wall is facing up, but the angle slowly changes, and then you have a wall that faces down slighty)

Im thinking that the solution to this could be a plugin that would:
Draw/Model a "pattern" on a selected surface or surfaces. The "pattern" would be assigned by selecting a component.

Thankyou guys Ill look through them

So this is the solution Im trying to think of... I have a facade of the building (as you can see its uneven, bottem smaller then top etc). And I an window design I want To apply to it. Shape bending tool wont do the job, the fredo scale might but what happens if there will be like 30 floors to do,window will be a pain.

I found this thread to be a really usefull tutorial.

Give the kid a break, everyone pirated something atleast once in there life time. xD But ye if you like and find it usefull, pay for it, sooner or later. I understand that many kids might not have the cash or the means to pay (e.g parents refushing to use there credits card). So if your one of the kids, remember to say a thank you to the developer by paying for it, when your older.

Think of how lucky you are that you wont be having to pay 4000 for zbrush or something.

My friend keeps telling me that architectural firms, especially well known ones dont use sketchup, and if they use it the results are poor. I just want to prove him worng, its bugging me.

A bit of help on this one?

http://konfrontacjaprojektantow.dbv.pl/news.php

This is now the third generation of this competition; it was originally founded by Adrian Ławniczak and Tomasz Piękoś, in cooperation with igol.pl. The competition had one goal: to bring people together who love designing stadiums in a healthy competition.

There is no grand prize for winning this competition, except a bit of recognition and a feeling of grand satisfaction. The competition was originally limited to the forum.igol.pl. However we believe that it is time to expand it beyond the realms of igol.pl and into skyscrapercity, sketchueducation and possibly skyscraperpage.

You can see past entries here (random order):
:: http://konfrontacjaprojektantow.dbv.pl/viewpage.phpd
:: http://konfrontacjaprojektantow.dbv.pl/viewpage.php?page_id=1

The subject of this competition is to create a new vision of the Municipal Stadium in Jastrzębie Zdroj (located in Poland), for GKS 1962 Jastrzębie, in the area where there are currently allotment gardens, Władysław Jagieło street. This is mainly just for fun.

1.Land:
a. The project must be located on the land plot specified in the provided attachment.
b. The plot is divided into two areas. Area(A) is designated for a new stadium for the GKS 1962 Jastrzębie football team.
c. Area (B) is extra land, no part of the stadium's structure may be located on it. This area may, but does not have to be developed by the participant who creates the design of the stadium.
d. The Guidelines specified apply only to the stadium. Other parts of the infrastructure are chosen by the participant.

2.Stadium
a. The stadium is designated for the football club GKS 1962 Jastrzębie. It is to be a Municipal
Stadium in Jastrzębie Zdroj, Poland
b. The capacity of the stadium has to be around 7000 - 10,000 seats.
c. No part of the stadium may extend beyond the area (A).

3. Other
a. The purpose of this competition is to present the concept of a new stadium for the football club GKS 1962 Jastrzębie. A presentation of the remaining elements of the infrastructure is not required.

GSU Landplot:
:: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20979171/KP3_organizacja/kp3_dzialka_skp.skp

Rules of the ""Konfrontacje projektantów 3 " (hereinafter: KP3). In English: "Project confrontation 3 .

I. Competition rules

1. The subject of the competition is to create a new vision of the Municipal Stadium in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, for GKS 1962 Jastrzębie , in the area where there are currently allotment gardens, Władysław Jagieło street.
2. Your proposition should be submitted on no more than 8 Image boards. Each Image board must be at least 800px x 600px and must be saved in a Jpg. format
   3.Your finished work should be sent in a single file named "KP3_NameSurname_InternetNickname" and the Image boards should be named ''NameSurname_KP3_ImageboardNumber." In the text of the email you must write your full name and nickname of the iGol.pl forum, if you have one.
3. It is prohibited to publish an entry in entirety prior to the commencement of voting. It is allowed to present the current progress of your work as long as the fragments shown do not reveal the main concept behind your proposition.
4. Entries should be sent to the email address konfrontacjeprojektantow@wp.pl until 05/20/2012 23:59:59 (Polish time).
5. By sending work to the provided email address, the participant accepts the rules of the competition and agrees for his work to be published on the website of the competition, and the forum topic of iGol.pl and other internet pages giving credit to the Author.
6. The people responsible for organizing the competition and providing information on its topic are: Adrian Ławniczak (addek92) and Tomasz Piękoś (tomotom89).

1.Land:
a. The project must be located on the land plot specified in the provided attachment.
b. The plot is divided into two areas. Area [A] is designated for a new stadium for the GKS
1962 Jastrzębie football team.
c. Area [B] is extra land, no part of the stadium's structure may be located on it. This area
may, but does not have to be developed by the participant who creates the design of the stadium.
d. The Guidelines specified apply only to the stadium. Other parts of the infrastructure are chosen
by the participant.

2.Stadium
a. The stadium is designated for the football club GKS 1962 Jastrzębie. It is to be a Municipal
Stadium in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland
b. The capacity of the stadium has to be around 7.000 - 10.000 seats.
c. No part of the stadium may extend beyond the area [A].

3. Other
   a. The purpose of this competition is to present the concept of a new stadium for the football
   club GKS 1962 Jastrzębie. A presentation of the remaining elements of the infrastructure is not required.

III. The voting rules

1. The winner of the competition is determined by the participants (hereinafter referred to as voters), who set their work within the set period.
2. The voters receive a pool of points which they allocate to the work which participated in the competition.
3. The Participant is prohibited from voting on his own work.
4. The point composition for N participants is as follows:
5. Place - (N-1) points.
6. Place - (N-2) points.
   ...
   (N-2) place - 2 points.
   (N-1) place - 1 point.
7. The winner of the competition is the participant with the most points. The other places are determined based on the total of the acquired votes.
8. In the case of a tie, the order will be determined based on the number of highest positions. If this cannot be determined the participants are deemed to be in the same place ex aequo.
9. The voting lasts for 7 days from the date of the publication of the work. Each voter sends an email with his scores to konfrontacjeprojektantow@wp.pl as follows:
10. Place- Nickname/ Name, Surname
11. Place- Nickname/ Name, Surname
    ...
    (N-1) Place- Nickname/ Name, Surname
12. If the number of participants is less than 5, the places will be decided by a voting on the forum which will last for 7 days.

V. Publication of results

1. The organizers commit themselves in a fair way to count the points received and present them at web site of the competitions and forums iGol.pl.
2. The results are displayed after the voting period, or earlier if all voters send their votes.
3. The final results will be published as soon as possible. Reprimanding the organizers of the scoring rate risk exclusion from the competition.
4. Provides for a distribution of points received, provided that no person will be given the voting.

Ill thought Ill share this:

@gaieus said:

I know an architect who forgot to design a staircase into a two storey house. Now that's saving on the space big time!

Omg really? No... way? What did he provide a rope?

@mike lucey said:

This reading might cast some light for you,

The shape and proportion of rooms
http://homesdesign.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/the-shape-and-proportion-of-rooms/

Homes for Today and Tomorrow: more on the Parker Morris standards
http://homesdesign.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/homes-for-today-and-tomorrow-more-on-the-parker-morris-standards/

Thank you Ill read through it.

Update:

Im designing this house for an artist (Andrew Jones), from what I know hes lives alone, but I want to future proof the house also, thus the extra room.
Ofcourse not all toilets and bathrooms are visable, just to give a simple sense of scale, each cube you see (on the ground or on that side wall) is 3m x 3m

Input?

@dave r said:

What kind of mouse did you buy? You'll probably need to have some sort of settings for those buttons in the OS before you can assign any shortcuts.

What OS are you using and what version of SU? Most people put that info in their profiles.

Its ok Im using a cheap argos wireless mouse, its surprisingly really good. Apparently the top button is the DPI button and cant be changed. so I will be just using xmouse for the two side buttons.

@hieru said:

I know I'm being obtuse, but a room should be as big as you need to to be and as big as you can afford.

Practically speaking you need to look at furniture sizes and the space people will need to use that furniture comfortably. You also need to consider how people move around and between spaces and allow enough space as you can.

There's no exact science and if you ask a dozen people for their optimum room size, you will get a dozen different answers. Ultimately the room size will depend on a balance between budget, practicality and aesthetic considerations - hence my opening comment.

However a small room will feel claustrophobic a big room might not feel personal, and too open. Perhaps if I could get an average or something. I know that my brief says just to design a house, and does not mention any furniture, but at the end of the day furniture and a sol goes in it.

@gaieus said:

I like playing ping-pong in my kitchen for instance.

Dont worry, you'll be able to play ping pong in my fantasy kitchen too, thats standard.

In architecture Uni, Ive been tasked to design a house. Now I thinking I dont know anything about a house. Nothing. I wish someone could tell me how big should a room be, a living room,a kitchen etc. Its a basic question with no answer, google search results are pretty much spammed with irrelevent information.

How big should a room be, a living room,a kitchen etc.? (In meter squared)

@sketch3d.de said:

if paying 70 or 80 bucks for an upgrade roughly every 2 years or so my demands would be pretty demanding too, could imagine that, besides the compulsive stuff already mentioned, brewing a yummy cappuci or latte macchiate every now and then could be a great improvement too go4it

a Linux/iOS/Android/<replacewithyourOS> version can be expected also, no doubt!!!

leavin' ironic mode,

Norbert

On the other hand its only 70 bucks. However yes I do agree modelling features need to free, plugins like curviloft, soft skin and bubble need to installed from the beginning. Features like layout should be pro.

Sketch-up is slowly being more often used in architecture studios, for good reason, its fun and easy. The only thing the way sketchup should evolve is by keeping the original philosophy (it should be fun and easy.

I could pretty much make everything that could had been made in rhino, thanks to sketchup's free plugins. Google needs to make them standard. My rhino tutors are saying wow.. you made that in sketchup? And yes I said Ive made that in 10 mintutes. In fact I was so good at it that he said to me "hey listen you don't need to do these lessons, just use sketchup, I'll pass you.

Now what I propose for the free verson is, a simple opening advert wont hurt.

Hey guys I brought my self a wireless mouse it has multiple buttems, however I would like to assign these bottems to different commands, I go to shortcuts and click on the mouse bottem but nothing happens.

The mouse didnt come with any software, however in google chrome two of these bottems are used for back and forward.

I also have a 6th button under my mouse scroll, I tried x-mouse but there isnt an option for it. So I probably need to find another program.

My computer is gimped, I have a deadline for an architecture project in my course. It just takes too long for me to render even something quite simple. I'm afraid I might not make it on time. Could anyone please render the project for me? I don't think there any problems in my model's. I'm using Podium 2 to render it.

@gilles said:

#Select the edge(s)
#right-click / entity infos
#check soften smooth or hidden.

Thank you very much! works perfectly

Basicly its one big model, no components and no groups, and im just trying to hide a few lines permanently because they ruin the presentation and even confuse me sometimes. Im still progressing with the model.