Looking at the 3D warehouse, its still lacking for furniture selection.

Where is a better place to get furniture. lights and props for interiors?

Could max models be used in SU. I bet there are loads of furniture in max out there. All the China rendering houses work in max and they seem to have loads of furniture....

Whats happened to ""üse as material"" in SU 2014?

Odd....

If I get the Pro Licence finally. Can I have it on my laptop in office, then when I get home and no longer have the laptop switched on, can I carry on with the same pro licence on my pc with big monitor?

I did not realise only one render machine works within Sketch up.

So what other renderers would be suitable if you disregard the within sketchup clause?

Regards

Yeah I know its an impossible question.

Something reasonably priced
Very Easy / Intuitive to use
Preferable can use within Sketchup
Short learning curve
Quick rendering
Reflections

I will never want to go for a photo realistic render, just something that looks like it was well drawn by a sketchy hand!

Cheers!!

Most of the Interiors I see are single rooms or rather airy looking houses. I am an interior designer and struggle to us Sketchup for designing Interiors that encompass multiple rooms where the windows are not large and the chance to gaze though the windows and see the model are minimal. When you are trying to view/work with a space you have ceilings in the way, cameras getting stuck behind walls and it is easy to get bogged down with all these obstructions. Architects have it too easy!!!! So a few years after I first asked the question - does anyone have any tips or tricks, work arounds or plugins to help interior designs working on real spaces?

has something happened to the formfoonts website, i remember they had loads of great modern furniture, very upto date. now it looks a bit rubbish ( i was looking on the non-free lists)

yours confused

What I mean is, is there a way to sketch the shape on wacom tablet to create 3d objects?

Was wondering if there are any useful pluggins for interior designers (not visited this site for a while so im a bit out of touch)

thansk for the tip - i found an item called middle click so i changed it to that and works now -trial and error

haha - remus saw your message just after i posted this. thanks!!

just installed the new SU on my new vistA.But my mouse no longer lets me click centre button and orbit around like normal. it instead shows me all the program open. how to change the settings.

thanks!!

is SU 7 still being released tomorrow and any news about its features?

to study space and make sketchy sketches, then sketch up is fine. it really really needs simple interior lighting though............ and a cheating / magical way to make tranparent/reflective things as one does when one "sketches" with hands

wow you are all too buzy talking about some kludge thing to notice that someone has just announced SU7 release date!! Amazing.

Unfortunatley its only relaesed in mountian time, and as mountains move so slowliy I will have to wait millions of years untill it catches up with GMT.

How long did they take?

I would like to do this sort of thing instead of sketching by hand, but I find the dimensions and breaklines limiting and more time comsuming especially if need PS to finish.

Any Rubies out there???? Or maybe SU7 might feature them........probably not!

Yes but wow its a lot of work to make each dimension line into a block!
I suppose for the break lines I was dreaming of a tool that will actually cut the model where ever u add the breakline.

Do you use SU for details etc?

Regarding SU 7, maybe the silience is because the omnipotent Autodesk wants to swallow Sketchu into its cavernous maw. and make us all take out overdrafts to pay for it......

I have some details amd I want to add some break lines as a way to crop the detail, just as in standard 2d drafting - is there a way to do this.

Also I want to move the line ends on my dimemension lines so they dont run into the model.

Any one run inti these problems before - basicaly I making some construction details but in 3d.

WOW I cant believe all the posts since I first saw this post. Seems like the ligh-up will become reality. Yippeee

well it must be one hell of an upgrade as they are taking so long.

probably packed with lots of great new ideas for making our design lives easier - i hope!