If you want control and precision, you need Rhino. I’m quite experienced on both and find more similarities than differences. It is also a SURFACE modeler, as is Rhinoceros. SU automatically “glues” everything together. The key to SketchUp is to group EVERYTHING (or make it a component if it is repetitive). If you bought PRO then it also becomes (the latest versions) CADD.- with LayOut and all and with advanced tools etc. SketchUP FREE : CAD - means Computer aided Designing (not Drafting). Please do further Google search on tutorials.ĬAD: As fas as my understanding goes CAD is Computer Aided Drafting (not designing) AutoCad started as CAD only.ĬADD: Computer Aided Designing & Drafting - This is for both designing & drafting.- which has what AutoCAD’s recent versions have become. Sketchup, Sketchup Plugins, sketchup texture, Sketchup Components - A very good website for learning a very useful plugin to create 2D section drawings & you can export it as dxf with another free dxf exporter. Once again I mention that we use SketchUP 8 Free simply for its simplicity for its amazing features !!! IMHO SU 8 Free does most of the work that the Pro does - like any other software program one has to certainly learn it - when there are so many resources available free of cost from the web - and it is certainly not difficult to learn - does not have a long learning curve like 3ds Max or Revit. Please Google search on all these and do a few experiments. If you wished to to 2D drawings out of it there are free plugins to create section drawings and there is a free exported to DXF. It works differently and take my word for it- if you went through the video tutorials and several other YouTube tutorials available in the web, you would be up and running with it in quite a short time. I have been able to do drawings - may be in 3d prints - showing construction details with dimensions and annotations (you cannot print to scale from Free SketchUP - you need the Layout program of Pro version to do that and also produce 2d Drawings like in CAD and print them to scale). Have a host of free plugins which make life much easier and you get more productivity. Also bought Subdivide & Smooth for free form modeling - just to play around as a hobby. As far as Boolean is concerned i have purchased Boolean Tools plugin for the Free Version of SketchUP 8. You could see the Master Listing of all plugins in Sketchucation forum. And also make it a practice to use plugins - most of them are free. Please just go through all the video tutorials through to link others have given you. I do not need pro and i would never need a pro version. In spite of having all these and also having full working knowledge in each of the software, I am using SketchUP 8 Free Version simply for the simplicity of using it. I have also acquired Autodesk Building Design Suite and I am on subscription and i stared using Revit also. I am a veteran AutoCAD user since 1996 and still use it. I am still using the Google SketchUP 8 Free version. I have been using SketchUP from Release 5 when the first Free Version came out.
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