I wish the developers will continue this project for a long time. I recommend it to any decoration enthusiasts and to children who start designing and will become architects later on. The new interface is eye candy and easy to learn !
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Hello everybody,
I am trying to find a home design software and I was impressed by Sketchup features and ready to try it. However, it is possible that I will decide later to switch to another application. Will I be able to save and open my work in other application instead of recreating it again? May I open other files formats in Sketchup? Will I be able to use libraries of floor plans from other formats?
Does Sketchup have a library of complete house designs including floor plans and building structure details?
Thank you very much for your respond! It looks like you do you consider SketchUp as a full scale design application. However, I played with the free version and I love it. I am just starting and I may consider in the future to move to a more serious application and an easy transition will be a big plus. Are there any files formats which are considered an industry standard so I could open them in several applications and if possible that I would be able to port my work to a more advance application? For example, Open Office can open MSWord files; I am looking for something similar at SketchUp.
It also would be great if I could open another apps format library in SketchUp.
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Then I would like to make some changes to the floor plan. As you may see this is a bit more than basic so I would like to find the same level of house so I can take it apart and see how it works to learn and make mine.
I think you point that many do not follow a good model organization scheme. I wonder how to find the one which was designed with the best practices for Sketchup?
Everything you said has a lot of sense. I guess I need to explain better what I am trying to do and I hope my efforts will make sense as well. I want to build a home and I am in talks to a modular company which can do it for me. I need to bring them a floor plan so their engineers will design the building.
I made a tour of many houses which will fit my style and budget and the one which I referred to here is the most desirable for my family. However, there are restrictions which the modular design dictates, so I need to fit the most complicated living space into 4 boxes 16x46 where all the bedrooms, bathrooms, wiring and pluming will be situated. I need to add that the house will be a hybrid so central area will be stick-built and consist of two story foyer and a family room.
To summarize: 1) I am not stealing the plan but use it as a starting point to design my house. 2) It is a challenge to make a nice combo of a two stories family room and a kitchen if I need to fit the kitchen into a box with restricted dimensions. Thus I want to make a model to play with to make the most functional design. With that in mind I do not need the lumber and pluming layout since the builder take care about it, I just need the proper space planning.
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TBH, I hate Sketchup but it really is the simplest and most intuitive 3D modeling tool to learn and visualize ideas. Real architects love to hate it. Mostly because it's TERRIBLE for generating construction documents. Absolutely terrible. But it has its place in conceptual schematic design. For proper documentation most in the industry use Revit or ArchiCAD now, but there's quite a steep price and learning curve on those for a hobbyist. AutoCAD dwg's can still be imported into Revit but most pros won't bother. They can regenerate the thing more precisely and in less time within a template pre-built with standard detailing, company standards, bells, whistles, & what have you.
I use Excel spreadsheets for quantitative analyses, and also use Excel for simple floor plan and elevations to start, before going 3-D (to more quickly view and evaluate 2D design choices). Excel is capable of being a simple drawing package by setting up the spreadsheet cells to be like quad ruled graph paper (squares), then adding lines, rectangles, color, text etc. I would imagine Google Sheets and Apple Numbers free spreadsheet products could do the same. They are less sophisticated than pricey Excel, but are free.
If you are concerned with the industry standards and file sharing, I have no advice. But from a pure usability standpoint, as an amateur, Sketchup is really quick to learn and fairly powerful coming from a baseline of pencil drawing.
I got into it for furniture design, but ended up modelling my house for renovation work and it worked with little fuss (after gaining some experience with simpler furniture models).
It's possible it is terrible compared to the other programs mentioned here, and I wouldn't know it not having used the others... I just found it to be fairly intuitive after what seemed like a relatively short learning curve.
Many designers use this software for design purposes in which they make sketching and other stuff -writing we can say I'm also a software engineer from the background making a different software and also have an experience in doing work as a designer and know how to use photoshop and illustrator software.
Good for you to be so on top of the build, I wish more homeowners got involved with the process details. You find out a lot of hard work goes into a successful project. My advice to anyone considering a building project is to spend a lot of time planning, think everything through before you start.
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