#Sketchup for interior design how to
#Sketchup for interior design professional

As it relates to the extra dimension of space that 2D lacks. вЂ‹It gives room for a way more creative and iterative process. It pays up and itвЂ™s a what you see is what you get approach. Extra drawings that you donвЂ™t have to draw if you use 3D.ДЈD takes a bit longer to model but in Sketchup itвЂ™s fast. Ideas flow the more you see, the more you communicate and the more you test.ДўD is not only limiting all this, it requires a lot of 2D work for sections, elevations, etc. For some people worse, but it allows more people to understand what we do.ДЄrchitecture is, after all, teamwork. ItвЂ™s an extra and, depending on the workflow, better. It doesnвЂ™t replace drawing sketches or building the physical models for some stuff, you might still want to create 2D drawings in CAD, but a 3D is richer info in mant more fronts, therefore better for creating whatever we want if you can use it fluently.ДЈD is, therefore, not for limited people that canвЂ™t understand 2D. In this sens itвЂ™s better than 2D and better than a physical model. Spaces, elevations, shadows dropping in, phot real materias and lighting, vegetation, experimentation with ceiling shapes, stairs, getting a sketch that looks like a person at the right scale into it. Now that I do the 3D model and work with it, IвЂ™m thinking why do I need 2D for moving forward? ItвЂ™s a step further.Дid I need to for my own visualization of the project? I used to think I didnвЂ™t, when I worked with 2D CAD. I build a 3D model for working and iterating the project with my whole team and stakeholders. Much better than AutoCAD and I used to work exclusively in it for years.ДЄfter that I donвЂ™t waste my time in making a 3D for presentation to clients.

As IвЂ™m working in 2D at this stage, layout doesnвЂ™t even blink. I draw accurately in 2D with sketchup, much faster than I use to do in CAD, with the same and even more info than before, as I have textures and areas directly retrievable from faces, dimensions and tags very fastly done in either sketchup or Layout. IвЂ™m not at all in line with your point of view sketch in 2D and iterate on the ideas fast on paper or, these days on a stylus tablet too. Thus for now, I вЂњplayвЂќ with SU but вЂњWorkвЂќ with AC (not exactly as I found a 2D app much better adapted to ma need witch is CadWork)

#Sketchup for interior design professional

I believe that the day the SU team understand that factor and make it easer to pass back and forth from 2D and 3D (like itвЂ™s possible with AC), this app would become a real professional tool.

What I like with SU is that I can вЂњshow an ideaвЂќ (unfortunately without or usable precision) very fast to a client while discussing his need. What I donвЂ™t like with SU is that I canвЂ™t really start with precise 2D drawing, then pass to 3D to вЂњget an idea on how the object looks in 3DвЂќ (and show it to the client) and then return to 2D drawing for execution plans. So itвЂ™s hard to answer you with an objective point of vue.

#Sketchup for interior design how to

SU is much better (when you know how to us it well) than AC when, for example, you are with your client to discuss what they would like as it goes much faster to вЂњSKETCHвЂќ (in case you donвЂ™t have the skill to draw by hand). Usually, for a standard house, the need does not exist.ДЄC is much better than SU to work as a professional in the building industry because it offer ALL the tools needed to work in a professional way. At this stage, nobody needs 3D as the builders are supposed to know how to read 2D plans unless there is a very complex detail to execute.

Once I got the authorisation and the contract signed, I do the execution plans (scale 1:50 for the base plans ans 1:20 + 1:10 + eventually 1:5 for details). For myself, I donвЂ™t need a 3D drawing, unless am facing a very complex detail to study (witch is very rare) that I usually draw by hand. Once my 2D project (mostly architecture, projects = scale 1:100) ready for authorisation, I do a 3D presentation so the client can вЂњseeвЂќ how it looks like. Then, and I guess this is where the major difference exist between some people and myself, I draw in 2D to make sure my ideas fit with distances and norms : I have a confortable perception of spaces and volumes while drawing in 2D while some people вЂњcanвЂ™t seeвЂќ anything if they donвЂ™t draw their objects in 3D. As I always have different approach to solve an issue, itвЂ™s much faster that way to set a final pass, as it would take 10 time the time to express my ideas with a CAD app. I always start my projects by hand drafting. It all depend on how you work and what is the graphic need once you print your project. To say yourвЂ™e вЂњmissing somethingвЂќ would not be the proper answer.