Sketchup noobie right here and very long time Archicad (AC) person – initially for work and now as a freelancer
i primarily design and want a fast strategy to create development drawings. AC does all this after all nevertheless it’s clunky within the a number of areas, although it’s very quick in others
at the moment trying into whether or not SU can do what i would like sooner
one rapid space i’m combating is controlling the look of the mannequin in several views
e.g. in AC I can assign completely different rendering fashion to a Wall merchandise relying on whether or not the wall is seen in 3D, plan view, elevation or part
so in 3D view I can apply a daily textured materials, in plan view a diagonal hatch, in elevation a brick hatch, and in part a dotted hatch
when i save a view and place it on a structure, AC will apply the feel or hatch as wanted mechanically.
comparable scenario with line sorts and weights
is it attainable to do one thing comparable in SU?
my concern is that with SU i’d be gaining some flexibility in modelling solely to lose any time gained messing round with development drawings…
or are there plugins that may maintain this? was Skalp however appears fairly outdated and just for sections?
Sure, SketchUp can.
First, you need to learn how fashion works, particular in “colour by tag” mode. This helps you management visibility of faces, edges seperate with “colour by materials”.
One other plugin assist create hatches for part is Curic Part.
Humorous, very long time CAD & sketchup person, getting exhausted drawing every thing twice and contemplating altering to Archicad. However relearning all my design & manufacturing strategies appears overwhelming.
For sketchup, be mindful you both have supplies painted to faces, or to a bunch/element. There aren’t any ‘smarts’ to sketchup. Your description of a ‘wall merchandise’ that has completely different representations in 3d/plan/elevation/part is just not a singular sketchup object. The elevation faces have a fabric that may sometimes look the identical in 3d & elevation (for sketchup this is identical). For plans, utilizing part planes to chop the mannequin, as Cyentruk says, there are extensions for this to generate a sample fill.
For design shows with variations on supplies, I cobbled collectively a ruby script that replaces supplies utilizing a signifier in scene tab identify. One thing like this might be used to swap out supplies between views. For instance these three views had been generated from similar mannequin swapping out supplies and variation on railing.
Archicad and Revit are succesful functions however maybe overkill for small initiatives and clumsy for “sketching”, normal 3D modelling or product design kind duties. I discover them indispensable for any constructing initiatives that want schedules and to maintain quite a lot of paperwork updated. And each have teamwork capabilities. Each have options that I really like or hate, as an illustration, the Archicad interface is barely matched by Blender in complicated complexity – our workforce members have a few years expertise in it however we nonetheless have “how do I do that” discussions about duties that ought to be easy.
