John that Sketchup itself was created more for design freedom. I hear your pain when it comes to altering models, yet I agree with Soon be available to the rest of the world shortly. Just to be clear the plug in is being sold in Australia yet will

Sketchup and have the functionality of parametrics with walls, roof, floor and Hi Francois, you may like to hear I took it upon myself toĮmploy 2 full time developers whom created a plugin that allows you to use The reason why I started using SU in the first place. I am not talking 3D modeling efficiency but the fun of modeling and how that translates to designing and my daily work.

However, looking at the basic functionality and what has been left out so far to improve the modeling workflow makes me worry. After all, communicating design is manipulating geometry. I do feel the need for a lot more functionality as parametrics for manipulating designs. Creativity suffers a lot by a slow or a badly repetitive UI. Assigning textures in Maxwell Studio takes seconds were the same work in SU seems an endless process. Most designers who love to work with SU see their time waisted waiting doing data input that could be done a lot faster and less frustrating in other packages. Designers are expected to model alternatives in a matter of days, rendered and all. Those days are over, sketchy lines are fine but today 3D modelers are expected to provide data for renders and engineering.

Apart from the material panel being very slow the whole workflow texturing geometry is out of date, on OSX.Īlthough its great that SU is getting faster the workflow and UI is still from years back when we all thought the sketchy imaginary was amazing. Imagine 5 materials in different shades of blue. I can’t find any materials by name quickly or see which one is active ( hardly visible blue line around a material thumbnail). I am on OSX and for example the material panel is horrible. Today they are frustrated to an unimaginable level with bad functionality that seems to be completely overlooked or considered to be working fine by the Sketchupteam. Almost all have skills using Sketchup.īut I think the development team must get on track with improving the core workflow advanced users are dealing with. Great to see Sketchup is on track with BIM and CAD in general.

Sketchup 2014