Re: Inspiration--Steampunk Workshop

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:30:09 -0500, the infamous Swingman
<kac@xxxxxxxxxx> scrawled the following:

RicodJour wrote:
On Oct 22, 10:30 pm, Larry Jaques <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com>
wrote:
Are you guys using the Pro or free version of Sketchup?

Pro has surprisingly few additional bells and whistles, but they're
critical bells and whistles. I bought my Pro license off of a guy on
eBay. His company had bought a bunch of seats and they were selling
off some of them. I think I paid something like $30 for mine. It was
a bit of a gamble, but the guy had good feedback and specific comments
about other people that had bought SU Pro from him.

Anyone tried the DVDs or online training fromhttp://www.go-2-school.com/?

I never paid for any. I downloaded the tutorial videos and burned
them to a disk, then I watched them on the big screen in the living
room with my feet up.

I'd love a copy of SoftPLAN, Chief Architect, or ArchiCAD, but funds
don't match aspirations. My copy of Punch Home Design Architectural
Series 18 isn't doing what I want (simple hardline drawings for the
downtown Building Permit Nazis. I'm sure glad 99.8% of my work is in
the county!) TC3E is excruciatingly slow in manual mode, placing each
joist, stud, and board. <sigh>

Is the Layout prog the ticket for me?

Yep. You won't be doing Shuttle drawings in SketchUp, but for your
run-of-the-mill building department submittal it does the trick
quickly. It can make it look like you've done a lot more work than
you have...not that I'd ever work that way. ;)

Larry,

Above is good advice.

Layout is definitely the ticket for doing building plans for development
department submissions. Other than that, and other presentations, you
really don't need it as their is no added drawing functionality in the
Pro version.

Also there are free plug-ins (Ruby scripts) for Sketchup which will do
stud walls, stud walls with window openings and headers, window openings
with headers in already drawn walls, floor and roof joists, stairs,
railings and balusters, etc., and "skin" a wall with various materials,
brick, stucco, etc ... in most cases you just specify the material size
and spacing.

Here's a couple of places to check out (they are numerous, so this is
just the tip of the iceberg):

http://www.smustard.com/ (both free and pay plugins)
http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/ (keeps up with some of the latest)

Thanks, guys!

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