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Google SketchUp

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boarder_15
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this is a cool program. you can design your own house or make anything you want, and its free to download.
http://sketchup.google.com/download.html
Sep 30 2006 1:04AM
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Itsbackfliptime
Posts: 18901 - Karma: 75
it works for mac too. Its really awesome.
Sep 30 2006 1:30AM
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Myke
Posts: 937 - Karma: 11
I went through my apartment with a tape measure and got it perfect scale in sketchup. I got all the rooms except the main bedroom done cus my mom was sleeping so I couldnt go in there and measure. It was insane but I lost it when I upgraded to Windows Vista.
Sep 30 2006 1:37AM
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newkid900
Posts: 632 - Karma: 138
I thought it was only free for the first 8 hours. Is there a way to work around that?
Oct 8 2006 7:23PM
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kool.aid.man
Posts: 1416 - Karma: 526
theres always a way to work around stuff like that ^_^ muhahah
May 6 2007 9:27PM
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SlickRick.
Posts: 4329 - Karma: 300
get a keygen off a torent or limewire
May 6 2007 9:33PM
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John.
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that for the pro version. The regular one is unlimited
May 6 2007 9:34PM
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Ericpbp
Posts: 3161 - Karma: 24
Yeah. its pretty cool. hard to get used to but once you have it its cool.  If anyone is serious i want to see your work. i am working on something right now
May 6 2007 10:47PM
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ATLskier
Posts: 8203 - Karma: 406
right now, sketch up is one of the greatest things that's come into my life. that might sound gay, but it saved me hours of wrok for one of my architecture class.

Sketch up pro 6 is fucking amazing. However, there arent many differences with the regular and sketch up pro6, but pro lets you play with the shadows for different times of day and year, has a push/pull tool, and it has a bunch of other stuff. look online. I have a student discount thing that lets me use it for a year for $50. Which it is worth it cause in my class I designed something and had to do light studies, and instead of messing with my model in the sun and taking pics every hour outside, I just created my design in sketch up and exported 2d graphics. it saved me so much work



You can make the most bad ass terrain park features with it. I've designed the box for my backyard on it, I've started designing a huge terrain park, ive got like a triple s rail, a trap s box. tons of stuff. It's good shit.
May 6 2007 11:04PM
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ATLskier
Posts: 8203 - Karma: 406
mad bad quality cause i had to compress it, but here you go, some of the stuff i've made

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added fog on this one:
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May 6 2007 11:24PM
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eyes.a.fire
Posts: 1238 - Karma: 13
^ so sick
May 6 2007 11:25PM
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garrett.
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May 6 2007 11:31PM
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ATLskier
Posts: 8203 - Karma: 406
forgot, here is the installation I designed to be outside of our architecture building at georgia tech.

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May 6 2007 11:38PM
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ATLskier
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thanks
May 6 2007 11:38PM
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Sideways_Shane
Posts: 756 - Karma: 73
its hard
May 7 2007 12:03AM
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Legion
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that must suck
Jun 6 2008 5:33PM
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ATLskier
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wow, kinda wierd how bad I think my design was from last year. In one year, this is what I got to:

first, sketch up model

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sorry, I just wanted to post this...

...partly because I think now that sketch up can look too cartoony and I like physical models...

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can you find my model?
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the model is shopped into a picture of the actual site.


ok, so for more sketch up...

I kinda got bored last summer and made this superpark in sketch up

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fuck it

https://newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/312705/


Jun 6 2008 8:17PM
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ATLskier
Posts: 8203 - Karma: 406
btw, if you download the pro version, it says the pro features only last 8 hours, but they still work on mine. It just says expired at the top. So I guess you can download the pro version for free.
Jun 6 2008 8:19PM
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ATLskier
Posts: 8203 - Karma: 406
sketch up files for me arent that big really

Its my photoshop files of 53inX33in boards at 300 resolution that are 1 gb a piece that eat up my hard drive. It took 10 minutes to save one of them once.
Jun 6 2008 8:35PM
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Hubsta
Posts: 1279 - Karma: 156
Anyone got any tips for someone new to this???
Jun 6 2008 9:14PM
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kfilenda
Posts: 509 - Karma: 72
try autodesk.com, Revit or inventor, they both have 30 day trials, and are interesting to monkey with
Jun 6 2008 9:19PM
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ATLskier
Posts: 8203 - Karma: 406
they also have student deals to get free software. I've got revit architecture, structure for free as well as maya, impression and a bunch of others. Theres tons of free software from autodesk.

www.students.autodesk.com

I think thats the website.
Jun 6 2008 10:52PM
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skijunkiedtm
Posts: 9229 - Karma: 61
i did that to get inventor. such a sick program
Jun 6 2008 11:06PM
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ax_murderer
Posts: 3322 - Karma: 30
yo those things you made are sick. makes me want to start taking architecture courses. im going to... next year.
Jun 6 2008 11:34PM
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Alkyy
Posts: 2839 - Karma: 149
how is this program compaired to vector works or autocad?
Jun 6 2008 11:42PM
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spliff.Life
Posts: 7847 - Karma: 1,549
that things tight
Jun 7 2008 12:24AM
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ATLskier
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much much less professional. Basically I just see it as a very quick way to make a digital model, or just play around. Instead of spending an hour on a study model, spend 5 minutes doing something in sketch up.

You can import stuff from autocad in it or the other way, I think. It's not as exact, but sketch up has a great lighting feature to look at how the light changes from different times of day and the year.
Jun 7 2008 1:08PM
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