Sketchup

[Anonymous]

I went through my first few tutorials in Sketchup yesterday and ended up staying up till 3am! This morning I feel very restricted in AC, and it's not due to sleep deprivation. Sketchup is like a dream! Once you use it you will demand improvements in the AC 3d Window. And I don't accept the because-it-is-CAD-it-cannot-work-like-that excuse because once draws with excellent accuracy in SU. A good plugin with SU will boost any CAD programs sales.

I'll be suprised if @Last remains independent for long not only because of their brilliance but because they could easily be a threat. Imagine them adding a few "CAD" tools and library parts. There are hoards of users out there that would embrace 3d without the building information if it works as well as SU.

SU is EPIC!

[Eduardo Rolon]

...and a predesign example of SU and Cinema4D. Though the client was as clueless as if I had shown him only a floor plan.

[Karl Ottenstein]

ejrolon wrote:
S. you forgot the new "SandBox" tool introduced in SU 5 to handle organic modeling including sites. It is a little bit wonky but it follows the ease of use of the other tools.

But, it does not really provide free-form modeling - only simulates it. The Sandbox tools merely take a predefined triangulated mesh (with those lines "hidden"), and move (smoove) multiple points varying amounts over a radius. It is actually (ruby) scripted, not a genuine new "tool" or, more important, not a new surface representation. So, everything Stefan says still holds.

(For example, while you can model a surface with sandbox/smoove, the number of polygons (triangles) is not optimized in any way, as it would be in some other program. So, modeling elsewhere and importing into SU likely results in smaller/faster models. It's still a cool feature and great when the performance hit isn't too great.)

Karl

[Anonymous]

http://www.graphisoft.com/company/press_zone/sketchup.html

[stefan]

Rashid wrote:
http://www.graphisoft.com/company/press_zone/sketchup.html

Good news. Strange that I have to read all these in ArchiCAD-talk.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps you are too out of touch in your Castle?

Seriously, GS is VERY poor when it comes to client relations... A simple one line e-mail of these is all they need to do... I haven't seen the GS newsletter since January.. Design Showcase is comatose.. An overall inconsistency with all communications..

[Anonymous]

Rashid wrote:
Perhaps you are too out of touch in your Castle?

Seriously, GS is VERY poor when it comes to client relations... A simple one line e-mail of these is all they need to do... I haven't seen the GS newsletter since January.. Design Showcase is comatose.. An overall inconsistency with all communications..

I have downloaded the new SketchUp Add-on for Archicad 9.0.
I use Sketchup 4 for Mac. I tried to open a SketchUp 4 file but nothing happened. I think this add-on is supposed to open SketchUp 4 files as well as 5. What am I doing wrong?

Jaime Neto
Powerbook G4, 1, 5 Mhz, ! gb ram, Archicad 9