I guess the answer is no, not many people do then!

Hi All,

Apologies first of all if this is a frequently asked question but I'm looking to get into more architectural visualisation after 15 years of working as an architectural designer now. I'm fairly proficient in both Sketchup and the Maxwell plugin for Sketchup and can produce reasonable results given enough time for rendering out etc.

Questions are;

a) Is it actually worth entertaining the idea of doing all the modelling in sketchup as opposed to Rhino for example or will it ultimately limit me in what can be created in certain ways?

b) If the answer to above is yes, does anyone have any experience of working with a Skp model in Maxwell Studio vs the plugin to know if there are (m)any advantages in doing it either way?

Also just to say, my end result would need to be full high res photographic outputs that you could pretty much not tell apart from the real thing otherwise there is no point considering this and will default to something like Rhino + Maxwell Studio which I have seen really good results with.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!