![]() ![]() I fail to see why it matters whether a 1m object is 1cm or 10cm or for that matter 5.217645mm long on your computer screen. And all of the SketchUp tools let you input or observe the real world measurements of each item as you go along. But that does not mean you need a screen 15m wide to display a house! The computer display can zoom in and out to provide a continuously variable scale. You are working in a virtual model world at full size. In SketchUp you are not developing your model on such a medium. The ruler does the real-world to paper scale conversion math for you, but only at a particular fixed scale. Scale is important if the only way you have to position and measure the object is something like an architect’s ruler laid onto that medium. Scale is a matter of how an object’s actual size maps onto a fixed-size, inelastic medium such as a sheet of paper. Regardless of your workflow (or how you ultimately define and develop it) I think you will find that SketchUp has a very low learning curve and is an amazing product. It is available for download in the Extension Warehouse: A very simple extension but in my mind almost crucial when it comes to laying out floor plans and walls. Unfortunately, I have not really implemented the same functionality into the foundation and truss plugin yet, but I will once I get to it.Ī free extension I would highly recommend is the SketchUp Grid Tool. I think that was probably the biggest reason why I came up with the 2D → 3D functionality with my wall plugin and vice versa. I’m kind of the same way, it is much easier to look at the big picture stuff with a 2D plan view rather than get bogged down with all of the 3D details at the start. I get the “start with 2D” first mentality. I have quite a few people who use my extensions that like to lay things out in 2D first before switching it all to a 3D model.
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