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Well, seeing as how quite a few of us on here use sketchup, lets have a sketchup design thread. i'll jumpstart with some of the things i've made so far.

First up:

Cubbies under a mezzanine floor. rest of room not included, as it wasn't particularly needed.

>> No.44215

Never used the program. Is the free version enough, or do you need the pro to do anything useful?

>> No.44218
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Work in progress for a re-purposing of Lewes bus station as a cafe and artist space.

>> No.44224

>>44215
i only use the free version, and tbh i think it's enough to do whatever you want. And, it's simple to learn!

>> No.44225
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>>44218

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>>44225

>> No.44235

>>44218
This looks fantastic! good work man, how long have you been using the program?

>> No.44245

>>44235
Only a few months now but I had a 1 week crash course at an architects I did work experience at. I just draw all the the plans and sections by hand, do them to scale in AutoCAD, import into Sketchup
and extrude dat shit.

>> No.44253

>2011
>Not using autocad

>> No.44254

>>44245
Good method, i only use sketchup as my hand-drawn designs always come out more like concept sketches, and i don't have autocad software. Only downloaded sketchup last night though and i'm seriously impressed with the usability

>> No.44275

>>44254
Definitely look into AutoCad, its proven to be a pretty useful tool.

>> No.44312

i love/hate that fucking thing. Is good for sketching but im more used to other programs. Unigraphics, Solidworks, autocad, mechanical desktop.

What i dont like about sketchup is the lackness of precision and tools. I like the software where you first draw something and then you constraint it with dimensions. I dont know if i explain myself. I like to first draw something then tell the computer what are the dimensions of the lines so everything.

I fucking love constraints

>> No.44366

>>44253
I have both. I'm studying Mechanical Engineering so I need to use Autocad for school.

But I'll tend to use Sketch-Up for simple things. It's faster.

>> No.44506

i went to school for architectural technology
i absolutely love autoCAD and sketchup.
autoCAD is probably the best technical prgram ever
and sketchup is great design and visualization
ive designed many a things in sketchup
i one day will get the pro version

>> No.44680

>>44211
bumping since I decided to check it out and love it, going through the tutorials and screwing around with it currently

>> No.45041

sketchup is for poorfags

real men use Pro/E

>> No.46928
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46928

I have designed (and built) the following piece of furniture to support my aquarium.

>> No.46941

>>44312
You wouldn't happen to know where one could procure a freeware similar to Solidworks would you?

>> No.46954

>>46941

torrent it. unless you are using it for commercial purposes, they'll never come after you

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46963

just a random gazebo i made when i was bored and didnt have internet access one time.

I love sketchup, and have found myself using it very often for conceptual work for my civil engineering class I'm taking at the moment. In class we use revit but I prefer sketchup for visual stuff.

>> No.46964

>>46941

as others have (and will) suggest, torrenting is probably your best option. there is no program comparable to solidworks. the alternates I've seen are to solidworks what microsoft paint is to photoshop.

be prepared: solidworks takes a considerable amount of effort to use properly. lots of tutorials out there though.

When I was a freshman I knew a senior who had access to our school's 3d printer (he was in charge of it, basically). He would design parts he needed for his oldass car (volkswagon? I'm not sure) and print them instead of buying them from the manufacturer.