[SML] SketchUp?

[Ronald Koinzan]

I worked with a scene designer who drafted everything in Sketch up. I'm a
TD who uses VW. Importing his drawings into VW works fine, but every thing
is rendered as groups of 3D symbols with no 2D component. I basically had
to redraft everything to manipulate it in VW. It was worse than having a
designer who hand drafts everything.

Ron

Ron Koinzan
Technical Director
Department of Theatre
University of Northern Iowa
(319) 273-2139

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Jacob Blumberg via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> NEVER USE SKETCH UP FOR 3D PRINTING. I’m sorry but that’s on the list of
> things you never use Sketch up for. It’s meant purely for visual and
> measuring. If you want to do 3D printing all Autodesk software is free for
> students, and after a few tutorials you can design in it and it makes
> everything 3D printable. Long story short all design software has their
> intended use and sketch up is not 3D printing. I also have worked places
> where the engineers swear by Rhino, and when they try to 3D print with that
> it is a disaster.
>
> Jacob
>
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 16:16 Dave Vick via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
>> On 1/16/2018 12:52 PM, Steven Hood via Stagecraft wrote:
>>
>> > Are any of you all using SketchUp as your main CAD software?
>>
>>
>> Nope; I used to use it for 3D printing until I found out it was really
>> good (at least on the Mac side) at adding unresolved polygons &
>> orphaned vertices randomly into every object I tried drawing up &
>> printing. This may or may not be a factor in your decision to go with
>> Sketchup, if you're only using it for 2D/lighting work.
>>
>> YMMV, as always...
>>
>> --
>> Dave Vick
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