Some of my work in SU

[boofredlay]

Here is a theatre I did a while back. Unfortunately I did not get to finish the landscape, cars and people.
Nevertheless, here are a few shots.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1691/portfolio8ki.th.jpg (http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=portfolio8ki.jpg)

All native SU export. No Photoshop or rendering package.

[boofredlay]

Here is a residence I did. Again, did not get to fill in the rest of the site, or even the railing on the front porch but the client got the idea.
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/4383/portfolio19bh.th.jpg (http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=portfolio19bh.jpg)

Again, all native SU.

[boofredlay]

This one was for a local business. I did the final presentation board. Also a close-up isolation of the entrance canopy.


http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6498/portfolio25en.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4269/canopy1lu.jpg

[AMANDALEE]

Its just amazing how this program has hit, im trying the demo out and finding it more useful every minute. Some of the examples ive seen are amazing... Amanda.

[f700es]

Nice images boofredlay!

[tommy]

thought absolutely useless for accurate 3D plans of buildings :P, its fantastic for presentation visual work that doesnt need to be accurate, for large structures, even estates, and im guessing its much less demanding on your computer and quicker? :? :P

[CADTutor]

thought absolutely useless for accurate 3D plans of buildings :P

Well, that's not quite true. It is possible to create accurate drawings with SketchUp but it's no match for AutoCAD - then again, it doesn't claim to be. SketchUp is not as "sketchy" as you might think. You can enter dimensions for drawn objects in a similar way to DDE etc. in AutoCAD and the system of snaps is very similar. :P

[f700es]

thought absolutely useless for accurate 3D plans of buildings :P, its fantastic for presentation visual work that doesnt need to be accurate, for large structures, even estates, and im guessing its much less demanding on your computer and quicker? :? :P

Again, not true. The degree of accuracy is up to you. I can drop a SU model on top of my ADT floorplans and they are 100% accurate. ;) It's is up to the user and what they are after.

Not true again, SU is a beast. The more you model or the larger your model becomes the slower it gets. You need a hefty video card and a pretty strong CPU. I mean you can get by with a 1.0 GHz cpu for vanilla acad but SU would need more with a little more power. Remember than SU is always rendering the image. What you see on the screen is what you get.

Here is an example of a model on top of a CAD file. I always model on my CAD files.
The yellow lines are my grouped CAD lines.

http://mars.walagata.com/w/f700es/lake_mack_small.jpg

Larger image..

http://mars.walagata.com/w/f700es/lake_mack_large.jpg

[tommy]

how does it compare to Viz/Viz Render and 3ds Max then? :? (combined with AutoCAD of course)

[f700es]

how does it compare to Viz/Viz Render and 3ds Max then? :? (combined with AutoCAD of course)

Well for architectural modeling, I find SU easier than Max/Viz. Now having said that SU cannot do some of the more complex operations that Max/Viz can do. SU also does not do curves. It cheats by using small line segents as curves. SU also does not have a rendering engine. It is a real time OpenGL 3D application. You turn textures on if you want to see them and to export an images with them. It is also not a solid modeler but a surface modeler. There is only 1 lightsource, the sun. You can set up your model to be anywhere in the world with just a few clicks. Sunlight is either on or off and you can adjust the time of day and month for different exposures.

Watch some of the videos on the main SU site. It's simplicity is it's power.

[CADTutor]

Agreed. Simplicity is the key word here. The developers designed it as a 3D application "for the rest of us". I had my class disigning quite complex 3D objects with SU in about 30mins - no way would that happen with MAX/VIZ.

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Here is another conceptual design I was playing around with. The transparent buildings being existing...

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5675/conceptualskycraper13jr.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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Eye level from the other side...

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/3087/conceptualskycraper27im.jpg (http://imageshack.us)