topic Re: sketchup questions in Collaboration with other software

sketchup questions

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:09:54 GMT

hello everyone ive just heard about this program and i wanted to ask sth

i need to know how can i create a 3d building for google earth. i want to build the public library in my city. can i do it in archicad? or i have to learn sketch up?

thanks a lot

Re: sketchup questions

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:06:58 GMT

Sketchup is as it's name implies, a sketching and conceptual design tool. You would need another software such as Archicad to develop the construction documents.

Re: sketchup questions

Rakela Raul — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:34:51 GMT

you can use either one.......easier / lighter in sketchup

Re: sketchup questions

David Larrew — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:07:25 GMT

In AC 11 you can use the "Google Earth Connections" Add-On to submit your AC model directly to Google Earth.

Re: sketchup questions

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:21:28 GMT

David wrote:
In AC 11 you can use the "Google Earth Connections" Add-On to submit your AC model directly to Google Earth.

Everything can be done without SketchUp using 11, as David says.

If you have AC 10 or earlier, you can still model in AC and then export as 3DS from the 3D window, and import the 3DS file into SketchUp for getting into Google Earth. (Since your question was "can I build this in AC".)

Karl

Re: sketchup questions

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:08:20 GMT

!!! thank you all !!!
very much!