Comments on: Another Soul Lost to SketchUp

By: Keugyeol

Keugyeol — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:03:47 +0000

Man, I’m now into 5th straight week playing with it.

I need help, too.

I am even searching the whole Internet with the “sketchup” keyword, everyday.

By: Cary

Cary — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:05:17 +0000

I too stumbled onto sketch up on Google Earth. I’m not that great at doing things on computers though this year has been a huge learning curve for me computer wise, coming to this site via Eric’s CSS through Lynda .com tutorials ….. anyway..
Yes I found it very easy to use and yes it consumed me for weeks. I have done a 44 story building I was involved in construction back in 85, a lighthouse in my home town, and the skate park, with our new proposed extensions.. The skate park is loaded into Google earth… search for a little coastal town south of Sydney in New South Wales Australia called Ulladulla. You can see the skate park model there, as well as where the lighthouse is supposed to be and there is also the skate park in Sydney CBD, thanks Google, still don’t know how to fix the problem of it placing the one modle is all three spots….
So… great easy to use program, the easy thing with Sketch up also was all three of my models were based on curves and I managed to pull them off with my limited knowledge.
PS Can anyone help me with the model postioning ? each time I go to up load a model, the same one goes to all three of the locations at once?
Thanks, regards
Cary

By: Alexa

Alexa — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:34:16 +0000

…I just completed my entire apartment– I need to sleep.

By: Mike Purvis

Mike Purvis — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:15:33 +0000

I’ve mucked about with SketchUp, but I always manage to get myself in an awkward position where I want to model a building or something from both the inside and out; the tools didn’t seem to be in place to (easily) make walls of a consistent thickness, for example. Or at least, you can get it all set up by delicately copying and rotating a “measuring stick” line segment, but that doesn’t help much later on when you want to shift a wall set between two adjacent rooms.

Anyone got a suggestion for this case?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:58:20 +0000

It appears to me you have a ping pong table in your kitchen.

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Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:24:20 +0000

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By: Carlos Porto

Carlos Porto — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:06:20 +0000

This nifty program has helped so much when it came to remodeling the house. I’ve used it to visualize awnings and railings on the exterior of my house. And the latest and greatest I was able to design a 16′ square pergola that I put in my backyard patio. If you’d like to see a before and after let me know. Sketchup is the poor man’s CAD.:-)

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:01:05 +0000

You rock, Ethan. Thank you! Looks like this is my week to be in del.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:27:57 +0000

Hitting a link shared by Unstoppabot, who really needs to get around to fixing his feed linking policy (”View this site”? Lame!)

Lo, I am chastened. Also, I love it that you call me Unstoppabot. Too awesome.

By: Ingo Chao

Ingo Chao — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:27:26 +0000

I'm no designer, and I needed a quick way to do 3D-modeling for an article, and found SketchUp easy to use, especially the alignment of the objects.

By: Brian Artka

Brian Artka — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:13:43 +0000

Hehe… Its ok Eric. Embrace it =)

My wife has been using it for the past year and she loves it. She is an interior Designer and it works with her ideas very smoothly. I have yet to touch it. I think I am afraid of addiction too.