Gaieus,
Yep, first thing I did was go back and restore all I had deleted, but still doesn't work.
Stan
Gaieus,
Yep, first thing I did was go back and restore all I had deleted, but still doesn't work.
Stan
Hi all,
I am not sure what I have done but I tried to down load the Skins plugin the other day. I put it in the wrong place because it wasn't working so I decided to go back and delete it..... I must inadvertently deleted something to do with the Shadow settings cos they just plain don't work anymore.
My question is, is there a simple fix for this or am I better off deleting SU from my hard drive and re-loading it? Any help would be appreciated. You can probably tell that computers and me only just tolerate each other.
Stan
Hey Guys,
Many thanks for your responses, looks like I am certainly not the only one with this little dilemma. I think I might have to persevere with SPIRIT. It allows you to reference a sketch-up model into SPIRIT and work in SU which auto updates. I will have a look at power Cad, sounds interesting.
A good example of what I am talking about came in to the office this morning. It is an upgrade of an existing shop tenancy. They want presentation 3D's to present to the Body Corporate for approval as well as a builders Preliminary price. So if I was able to produce some professional looking preliminary design 2D drawings from my SU model I could knock it out quite quickly and effectively along with an outline spec. I look forward to the day where Google are able to offer a plugin or even a very simple cad system designed around SU and as Intuitive as SU. If I had had the time and expertise I would do it myself
Stan
Hi All,
I haven't posted much for a very long time so I consider myself a newbie. I have been using SU as part of my design process in the office for 4 years now and it has paid for itself 100 fold. The problem I am finding is that I am relying more and more on my staff to produce preliminary design documentation where they start the project from scratch in revit. This is a time waster especially if it is for a speculative developer or the like. I use layout extensively with SU to produce my concept drawings but I am not overly happy with the output since line weights cannot be changed and everything looks ....well...very flat. To counter this I went out and purchased a license of SPIRIT 15.1, this appears to be a great programme that interfaces well with SU, my problem is the learning curve on becoming proficient on a CAD programme when I have never actually used one before. Being the primary designer in the office, I don't want to get bogged down learning all the idiosyncrasies of SPIRIT or Revit for that matter, its just not an efficient use of my time. My question here is, is anyone aware of a plugin being developed to produce more quality drawings from SU with line weight variation and better dimensioning. I have checked out the new Rhino plugin called VisualARQ, something like this interface in Sketchup would be fantastic I feel. It is not overly complex, very intuitive and has simple BIM qualities. For someone like me where time is of the essence, this would be an absolute God send. OR, am I better off just switching over to Rhino????
Anyone's thoughts on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Stan
Hi Rick,
I have my guys in the office working in Revit, I myself have resisted switching to revit since 90% of my work is design. I prefer to work with SU since I find it so quick and intutive. I know a lot of Architects use SU to quickly build components for importing into ArchiCAD or Revit during construction documentation, I see this tool being extremly helpful for me to become more involved again in production of construction documents. I look forward to its release
Stan