Question About SketchUp

[Lee Sweeney]

Is there a way to set the windows up, to Show the Top, Back and Right or Left view on screen at the same time?

Not sure if I am explaining it correctly.

Top                            Right

Back                          Left

Something Like That?

I can change the View to One of those, but not see them all at once.

Lee

[66tbird]

Not that I've seen. I'm a 7yr user.

[Lee Sweeney]

Thanks

I Looked but Hoped I was just missing it.

Lee

[Erwin Ried]

You don't need them in sketchup

[Lee Sweeney]

Really?

I like to see the sides and the ISO at the same time, why is it not needed?

Lee

 

[Erwin Ried]

It is a simplistic approach.

[gth]

I know what you mean. Feels like a former life ago I used both paper and later software with views you describe (even scribbling ideas I'll draw these views without thinking twice).  But since SU doesn't have simultaneous multiple views of any kind that I'm aware of...

* Get used to holding the mouse wheel down to 'orbit' the camera fairly quick (works no matter what tool I'm currently using) + hold down shift to pan.  There's times I wish it would spin differently.... which usually means holding the control key to 'suspend gravity', although this seems to have a bug where of camera movement isn't recognised properly, so the view "jumps" badly if you try a normal orbit immediately after a control+orbit,

* There is a custom ($$) pan/tilt/zoom type architect/designer joystick/mouse thingy (can't find the URL right now) someone mentioned as the cream of the crop for SU and other 3D design packages, however I personally can't justify the $$ as a hobbyist.  Different story if doing 3D work is your 9-5 of course.

* A poor man's version of the views you're describing could be manually defined and navigated one at a time by adding SU "scenes" and then just click each scene icon to fly the camera to the view positions you've defined.  (Hint: Modify the Animation speed in the related settings shown Window / "Model Info" dialog).

Enjoy.

- G.

[geneb]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, gth wrote:

> * There is a custom ($$) pan/tilt/zoom type architect/designer
> joystick/mouse thingy (can't find the URL right now) someone mentioned as
> the cream of the crop for SU and other 3D design packages, however I
> personally can't justify the $$ as a hobbyist. Different story if doing 3D
> work is your 9-5 of course.
>

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