topic Re: SketchUp! in Modeling

SketchUp!

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:52:26 GMT

Does anybody knows if theres a plug-in for sketchup 4 to archicad 8.1? or for the new version archicad 9.0?

Edgar G:.

Re: SketchUp!

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:36:02 GMT

Edgar G, I asked Last Software this question at the beginning of the month; their reply:

They are working on an ArchiCAD plugin for SketchUp 4.0, but its not done and unfortunately they don't have a timeline for it either.

I believe ArchiCad users of SketchUp should make their wishes known to the developer.

BTW, where is Starkville?

bps

Re: SketchUp!

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:53:26 GMT

Thanks brian, i wish they come up with a plugin pretty soon since a have a lot of models i have to convert, and the plugin for 3.0 really doesnt work right, oh! and starkville is in Mississippi, im from Peru though

Re: SketchUp!

Dave Jochum — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 05:23:21 GMT

My typical workflow starts by hand sketching in plan and working in 3D with SU side-by-side. Once I have the plan, massing, and forms worked out, I switch over to AC. I love the speed that I can work in with SU--not quite as fast as hand sketching in 3D, but much more powerful and therefor speedy in the long run. I have never seen the benefit of a conduit from SU to AC. I work to the nearest foot (or so) in SU and to 1/16" in AC. SU can be sloppy like hand sketching--that's what makes it so efficient to work with. Converting a sloppy SU model to a precision AC model takes more time than simply creating the AC model from scratch, and wasting the time to create a precision SU model defeats my reason for using SU. Can anyone share experiences of benefiting from SU to AC conversion?