I was very surprised to see many many more render styles in the layout part of sketchup. Does that mean no point adding styles in sketchup - just wait till layout starts? Seems a bit of an overlap.

I need some wiew out of the window but not sure if sketchup will do it for me?

poster: syburn

Thanks to those on the newbie forum that helped me today. There is nothing like just getting your hands dirty and just doing something after watching all of adian chorpas great tutorials.

Any here is one of the fruits on my days work - its part of the retail bank area for ANZ bank (still not finished and naturally needs many improvements)

poster: syburn

any of you out there know if these cards will be ok for running SU.

one im looking at is the x2500 mobile for an acre laptop.

[syburn]

Dylan - is your graphics card an intergrated one.

How do you find using it with big models.

Cheers

[syburn]

Before I buy a new laptop which seems nowadays has to come with Vista, need to ask this question :-

will SU 6 work with vista no probs??

[syburn]

Great - imagine just issuing 3Ds to the contractors and its easy to run off any view they need.

poster-Syburn

brilliant - i think i will have a go with this free software.

P: syburn

what sorts od situation warrant nested groups? just a curious newbie Q.

P: syburn

oh thanks everybody, i understand now and managed to import again from a block (im using autocad LT 2006 and seemed not to let me purge or overkill or flatten so a block seemed to work ok).

I have developed the whole thing now and I have posted it in the rendering gallery. Not so happy with it though.

P: syburn

@unknownuser said:

you seem to have some cad stray pieces in there somewhere

What is the way to look/see find these stray cad pieces?

P: syburn

@unknownuser said:

I find that i have to import Cad files in mm or scale them up once imported. SU does have a small enough incrament for working in metres

I did draw to scale in mm, but when i imported it the dimensions all seemed wrong (so i used tape measure to change model scale).

Anyway i ll try all your tips now as see what happens.

P: syburn

I have imported a simple acad plan. Then redrew over the plan to make a SU face (a few faces actualy).

Now I want to start to model the walls etc but when I zoom into the window, the model sort of clips and disapears.

I looked at the Model info and saw that it seemed very big, so i deleted the Cad layers which reduced line count from 14000 to about 152- but still clips and disapears when zooming.

Any tips would calmm my stress in the office.

LOBBY.skp

P: syburn

oh yeah thats another way - thanks for those tips.

making glass panels is easy - just use line tool to draw a rectangle.

but seems that if my glass panel is curved and i use a combo of top/bottom with arc line and sides with line tool in blue axis - it does not make a face. Any ideas!

30 mins later...........

Well after some messing about i found that it can be done with the follow me tool. Whish it was a bit simpler though.

P: syburn

much appreciated!!!

P: syburn

sigh.......its me again.

If i am using line tool to trace out a curved irregular floor pattern (so that i can add a material to it), how to constrain all these lines to a base axis so that it will make a face. Using shift does not work as it only lets me draw squared shapes at red gree axis.

P: syburn

well i will have to try a few different ways - see what works.

Im mainly working on interiors but as i want to design with this toolas well, i was thinking that i should create a layer template to make things easier.

P: syburn

im just wondering what common work flow you all follow with regards to building / designing in SU.
Do you use layers very early on?
Do you build a lot of elements, group them and then assemble the final thing from many groups?
Do you tend to make many many groups (for each part or model) or try to keep them to a min by adding extra faces to the main box sort od thing?

P: syburn

God - those go-2 school tutorials are massive files. I hae never managed to see one yet as they take so long to down load!

P: syburn

Thanks for all those tips!
I will probably leave looking at rendering software till later. Just try to use photoshop at first.

P: syburn