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I ahve been a Sketchup "power use"r every day for ten to fifteen years.ĪutoCAD is a fine tool. I have been on AutoCAD for many years of my career (no longer) and Revit for a few. I understand most of what you are describing. They all require a pretty steep learning curve to master and all have their little bugaboos. (although with precision comes complication) so Softplan probably remains the simplest.
But as far as I can tell ChiefArchitect is currently superior by a fairly wide margin. I personally use Softplan and only use Sketchup when I need to create unusual details. Unfortunately as far as cost and speed goes Sketchup+SpecPlus does not have advantage over ChiefArchitectīut if you like the extra precision and flexibility that Sketchup offers it wins hands down in that area. But SpecPlus is doing about the same thing to sketchup and there are several other developers making it more efficient for building design. To produce residential and small commercial design. Personally I think that ChiefArchitect, Archicad and Softplan are currently the fastest ways SketchUp & LayOut for Architecture by Nick Sonder and Matt Donleyĭo not know about the licensing issue but the community seems pretty helpful and this can probably be solved -it is just very frustrating to have to relearn processes. Importing ACAD is a big problem -better to learn to work from Sketchup from start to finish.
Chief architect vs softplan 2016 how to#
Learning how to keep planes flat is a struggle.
I feel your pain I went through the same thing. I have to think from what you said that most of your problems are operator error.
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SketchUp, please step up and fix the problems with the software before you add any more bells and whistle! Please!!! Nothing! I really do not want to go back to AutoCAD ( I despise AutoDesk as a company and their over priced software). When the only real improvement they came up with all year + was dashed lines, I’m okay with that - not thrilled, but I’m like, “okay, well maybe they fixed some of these under the hood issues” which I would frankly be far more excited about than anything you could do to the interface or tools. There is no way for me to bypass this issue, so I am out of luck and back to bashing my head against the wall. No license! This extension is by one of the main extension writers.
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I delete it and remove the existing files and download again from The SketchUp Warehouse.
Chief architect vs softplan 2016 install#
I install it and guess what - no license. So I thought I’ll see if there is an extension that can help me make a faces. Meanwhile I have a client who needs there plans a.s.a.p. I have accomplished absolutely nothing today on this project - nothing - all day. If I try to erase these lines it erases parts of the face! Also measurements change from exact to approximate! The portions that I was finally able to make were crisscrossed with hidden lines when I opened the file today (not there yesterday). For instance I battled for over 8 hours yesterday to try and make this roof.
I have a friend who is also an architect and uses SU. That is a bunch of bull! SU, fix this issue now!!! One of those issues is that SU makes double, triple or quadruple faces when it will make a face. SU blames these many problems on AutoCAD. I know that SketchUp has an issue with any SketchUp file that has had an AutoCAD file inserted into it at any time - ever. I still import 2D drawings from AutoCAD in my workflow. If I need to make any kind of change to a face that I fight for hours (literally) to create - forget it. I need the software to create faces - it hardly ever does. I truly feeling like I am smashing my head against a brick wall with this program! I cannot make it do anything that I need it to do. I have been trying for about 14 hours so far to make that one change. I am an architect and need to change the roof joists on a project that I am doing from 11 7/8" TJIs to 14" TJIs.Here are just a couple of problems out of numerous, that I have been having and I see no end/ solution in site: I abandoned AutoCAD because I thought I could make SU and LO my go to tool for turning out architectural drawings. Though I’m confident that this will do no good, I’m going to vent here anyway.