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SketchUp and CAD - Creating Walls

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Uploaded by on Jan 11, 2008

This is video 2 in working with SketchUp and CAD and progresses from our previous video in using the CAD plan as a reference to create interior and exterior walls for our model.

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  • I'm an architect of 35 years (graduated 1974) and disagree. SketchUp is still the only CAD program for architects, and the main reason for that is that it does the job brilliantly. Its far better than using pencil. With SU you can rotate the building whereas with a paper sketch you can easily fool yourself that something works when it doesn't. Drawing by hand is a primitive technique that has past its usefulness.

  • IF you are studying architecture, better learn how to draw by hand first - and well. Architecture is not easy. Need 3d thinking and ability to visualize in your mind, and draw it too. Take this as good advice, not criticsm. Good luck.

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  • @11swallowedinthesea You're 100% right, 2D will never go missing.

  • @1Mperios 2d still has its usefulness - great for floorplans and details.

  • @icipmichaelpowell

    You're right, SketchUp is a brilliant tool and quite easy to use. AutoCAD is great for architects too! Soon everything will have to be in 3D.

  • how do you make it so you can see through everything and so you can see your floor plan???

  • @SprigganLook All technology get between the thought and the end product. Pencils have nothing special about them, they were the primary technology for draughting work for a very short time.

    You might as well look back romantically to slate and chalk, or scratching with a nail on the side of a marble block before cutting it.

    There's no CORRECT way, any more than there is a correct choice between watercolour, tapestry, sculpture and opera.

    You're just living in the past.

  • @SprigganLook All technology get between the thought and the end product. Pencils have nothing special about them, they were the primary technology for draughting work for a very short time.

    You might as well look back romantically to slate and chalk, or scratching with a nail on the side of a marble block before cutting it.

    There's no CORRECT way, any more than there is a correct choice between watercolour, tapestry, sculpture and opera.

    And musicians existed long before the piano.

  • @icipmichaelpowell you can appreciate a drawing or presentaion MORE when it it drawn by hand,.this is what natural skill & talent means..

    ......but i do not criticize CAD programs........

  • thanks alot

  • @miltonfrank Computer Aided Drawing

  • When people say CAD what to they mean? AutoCAD? or...?

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