Comments on: Renovation Management Tools

By: john

john — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:39:42 +0000

Thanks Todd. It is amazing how sketchup can allow you to do some much of what it took CAD and years of training to do.

While its not big on CAD level precision, we aren’t machining titanium engine parts — we just want to see what specific design ideas will look like.

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:03:36 +0000

I’m an engineer and I think sketchup is really amazing, especially for Free!!! CAD programs are not cheap and the capabilities of Sketchup are amazing! Great site by the way, I’ll certainly be back to watch your progress.

By: john

john — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:24:09 +0000

That would be nice — it would have saved me tons of time measuring and remeasuring.

The only place I’ve used photo mapping onto models is shingles on the roof–and that was only to try different shingle colours. Sketchup’s models a really quiet realistic enough, so I’ve never felt the need to map photos.

By: jojuchst

jojuchst — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:40:20 +0000

It would be really nice if there is a product that can take a series of photos and stitch them together like Microsoft’s Photosynth and then go 1 step beyond and convert the resulting synth into a SketchUp 3D.

Have you used SketchUp 3D to apply/project a picture you’ve taken onto your sketch? Pretty cool when I saw it on the demo but havent’ tried it first hand myself.