sketchup - Forum - Landscape Juice Network2024-03-29T09:34:09Zhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/feed/tag/sketchupSuccessfully Communicating your Design Ideas to your Client and Landing the Jobhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/successfully-communicating-your-design-ideas-to-your-client-and-l2017-09-06T15:33:03.000Z2017-09-06T15:33:03.000ZJOHN BROOKShttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/JOHNBROOKS<div><p><span id="ember3332" class="ember-view">Even if you don't offer formal design services to your clients, being able to successfully convey what you have in mind for their gardens may be the difference between winning and losing that lucrative contract. It's important to remember that while you may have been thinking about (and often in my case, dreaming about) their new garden for some time, until it's built, you're in fact the only person who's ever 'seen' what the finished garden might look like. Many people are not used to looking at plans and struggle to get their head around exactly what you envisage. As part of my work as a garden designer, I put together detailed concept drawings for my clients which allow them to feel what it might be like in their new gardens.</span></p><p><span id="ember3332" class="ember-view"></span><span id="ember3332" class="ember-view">I also offer this service to other designers and contractors looking for that extra sales tool. If you're interested in my work and how I might be able to help you in your business, please feel free to drop me a line either here or at w</span>ww.johnbrooksgardendesign.com/CAD<span id="ember3332" class="ember-view"> </span></p><p><span id="ember3332" class="ember-view"><br/><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3284654053?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3284654053?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-center"/></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3284654162?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3284654162?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-center"/></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3284654162?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3284654402?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-center"/></a></span></p></div>Point clouds, scanning, and SketchUphttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/point-clouds-scanning-and-sketchup2014-06-05T18:10:09.000Z2014-06-05T18:10:09.000ZPhil Voicehttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/philvoice<div><div class="post-body">
<p>Many of you have asked us: “How can scan data be used in SketchUp?” We care a lot about usability, so the notion of importing 500 million points into SketchUp often makes us twitch. Recently, though, we spotted an opportunity to update an existing Trimble tool and allow scan data to be leveraged in SketchUp without overloading or overcomplicating your models.</p>
<p>With that, I am pleased to announce the <a href="http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/trimble-scan-explorer-extension" target="_blank">Trimble Scan Explorer Extension</a>. Using this tool in SketchUp Pro, you can now import scan data from <a href="http://www.trimble.com/3D-laser-scanning/software.aspx" target="_blank">Trimble RealWorks</a> projects as references for building 3D models.</p>
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<td class="tr-caption"><span><span><i>Introducing the <a href="http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/trimble-scan-explorer-extension" target="_blank">Trimble Scan Explorer Extension for SketchUp</a>: a tool for using scan data from Trimble RealWorks as a reference for accurate 3D modeling.</i></span></span></td>
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<p>This extension starts by visualizing point clouds as lightweight images created from the original scans. You can rotate and zoom around the scan, and use simple tools to easily specify points, lines, edges and walls. These entities then appear directly in SketchUp in various ways.</p>
<p>Without any context in SketchUp for extracted points and edges, scan data imported straight into SketchUp would be pretty challenging to work with. To help you see where you are working in the point cloud, this extension includes an easy-to-use edge extraction tool that provides the important cues you need for modeling building space. This tool brings edges into SketchUp as guides -- think of these as “edge clouds” that you can use as the basis for accurate modeling.</p>
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<p>Scan data is very accurate. Maybe too accurate for effective modeling. The trick is that scanning technology captures the bumps and curves in real world surfaces. If you tried to extract the edges directly from this kind of data, they would not produce good planes for efficient modeling in SketchUp.</p>
<p>Using the Trimble Scan Explorer, you can constrain the extraction of edges and surfaces vertically and horizontally to ensure you can model from them in SketchUp. Fields for entering your Edge, Geometric, and Snapping Constraints are provided, to allow you to get the results that you expect from these automated routines. For example, If you have a tilted surface that doesn’t align with the axes, you can turn off the constraints to extract the edges of the surface, independent of its orientation relative to the axes.</p>
<p>Another tool that provides quick results in SketchUp is the two-point wall selection tool. Simply click on two points on a wall you’d like to display in SketchUp, and presto!, the wall is imported as a SketchUp component. You can sequentially click your way around the room to model all of the walls this way; and if you like, automatically add the ceiling and floor. An option to close the walls further reduces the number of steps needed to model a simple room.</p>
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<p>If you’d rather model your walls from selected guide points, the extension provides point and line picking tools that allow you to select the exact elements in the scan you’d like to use in your model. For instance, the automated corner extraction tool uses the intersection of planes in the scan data to identify room corners. You simply draw a box around a corner to extract the exact corner of interest. It works with interior, exterior, and oblique corners, and might just be the most useful tool in this powerful extension.</p>
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<div><i><span>The extension can be used to extract corner points from scans manually or automatically. You pull a rectangle around the corner of interest and a point is created at the plane intersection.</span></i></div>
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<td class="tr-caption"><span><i><span>The Boulder Eye Clinic with SketchUp guidelines extracted from Scan data: the curved edges posed a challenge, but a large amount of detail was obtained quickly as contextual guide lines for accurate modeling</span></i></span></td>
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</div>Sketchup & SiteOpshttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/sketchup-siteops2011-12-22T16:39:59.000Z2011-12-22T16:39:59.000ZGary RKhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/GaryRK<div><p>I've been hankering, toying & finally playing with using Sketchup in our particular line of landscape work.</p>
<p>Doing a bit of due diligence (..take that as a bit of reading) I came across this review of a piece of sofware called <strong>SiteOps</strong> that sits alongside/integrates in Sketchup that looks real interesting. There's a great demo video & description here</p>
<p><a href="http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2011/11/siteops-conceptual-design-for-land.html">http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2011/11/siteops-conceptual-design-for-land.html</a></p>
<p>Also, if you're anyway doing landscape / architectual designs and/or hardscaping (driveways/patios) etc <strong>SiteOps</strong> looks real interesting. You can take KML files with topological data and have it work out cut & fill and loads of neat tricks.</p>
<p>Now trying to find out techie requirements and costs for <strong>SiteOps</strong> etc (as basic Sketchup V8 is still free ?)</p>
<p>Finally, excuse me if this is old hat to those of you that know <strong>Sketchup </strong>and/or have used <strong>SiteOps</strong> product, but to me (...and a few others ?) I bet it's abit of a Eureka/Cor blimey moment............ technology, you love it or you hate it ;-)</p>
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</div>Does SketchUp influence your designs?https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/does-sketchup-influence-your2011-03-13T14:48:58.000Z2011-03-13T14:48:58.000ZCraig McGibbonhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/CraigMcGibbon<div><p>Hi all,</p><p>In the last few months after the buzz on LJN l have started to use SketchUp to produce my garden designs; the professional output is impressive for clients, easy to modify and tweek without redrawing and the last client l sent the file too so they could have a spin around the design which they loved!</p><p>So l'm very much in favour of this free download but have noticed it has influenced my designs. It's very easy to design in a very linear style or basic shapes and more difficult to create intricate shapes or curves. Additional challenges occur if your site is on slope etc...</p><p>Do you feel these programs have influenced your designs?</p><p> </p><p>Craig</p></div>SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization: Beginner's Guide - Book/E-book.https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/sketchup-71-for-architectural2011-01-13T22:10:19.000Z2011-01-13T22:10:19.000ZDavid Beasley Garden Designhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/DavidBeasleyGardenDesign<div><p><strong>Hi Folks</strong></p><p>A bit later than promised, I know, but I’ve now just completed reading all of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://goo.gl/f33rk" target="_blank">SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualisation: Beginner’s Guide’s</a> 408 pages from cover to cover and there’s so much fantastic information contained within it that it took me a little longer than expected!</p><p>Anyway, on with my review of this book/ebook as promised.</p><p>First of all, let me say that this book is rammed with links to websites/FREE computer software and detailed work-flows that are best followed with your computer switched on and preferably with a “live” design/visualisation project to work on to witness the results first hand. I didn’t do any of this and just read the book and imagined the results with my existing knowledge of SketchUp and the other FREE software mentioned. </p><p>Secondly, as the title suggests, this book is not primarily aimed at Garden/Landscape Designers per see and there may be some content contained within the book that you might not think is relevant to our industry, however, the majority of it is and I think that anyone who reads this book with a basic understanding of SketchUp’s capabilities will truly be amazed at how this program can be extended though “plugins” and interacts with other related FREE design software such as Kerkythea (renderer) and “The Gimp” (Photoshop clone) to form a top class professional design suite to challenge any high-end (bought) competitors. </p><p>As this book is so weighty and contains so much information, I’m not going to attempt to review the contents of each it’s 11 chapters but, instead, will try and give you a condensed insight of what’s covered. </p><p>Chapter 1 is a great start for all impatient designers/visualisers (like me !) and jumps straight in at the deep end and guides the reader through the process of modelling a room scene (a gallery), texturing it, adding lighting and rendering it in Kerkythea to produce a photorealistic image.</p><p> </p><p>The next chapter then directs you to all the relevant websites where the FREE supporting software can be downloaded. </p><p>The following early chapters of the book tell you how to do the basics right in a methodical/organised way without wasting any time/money. The author of the book, Robin De Jongh, is a professional, UK based architectural designer/visualiser and knows SketchUp, Kerkythea and The Gimp inside out and has his work-flow down to a tee so that at no stage in the process is time/output wasted. </p><p>He effortlessly explains how site information can be “sucked” from various sources e.g. Digital Photographs, CAD files, Google Earth, Google StreetView and SketchUp’s “Photo Match” facility to quickly produce accurate, geo-located SketchUp models with realistic shadows and photo-real backgrounds. </p><p>Also covered are ways to “flesh out” your model and populate it within SketchUp using ready made components from Google’s 3D Warehouse or within Kerkythea using 3D objects originally produced to be used with the “high end” 3D Studiomax program. Importantly, for us Landscape specialists, the importance of not over-populating your models with “memory hungry” 3D trees/shrubs is stressed and methods for producing homemade 2D “face me” trees is described as well as mentioning the use of the computer landscape program “Vue”. </p><p>Chapter 7, I believe, finally answers the age old “hand-drawn v CAD” argument – in favour of CAD! Robin introduces us to “The Dennis Technique” which is none other than a simple technique using SketchUp and Gimp that produces professional looking “artist’s impressions” which look like they have been pencil/ink drawn then painted with a watercolour wash. </p><p>An organised approach to producing “photo realistic” renders using SketchUp and Kerkythea is detailed in the next chapter and methods of “tweaking” these rendered images in Gimp follow in chapter 9. </p><p>Reading chapter 10 will turn you in to a budding Martin Scorsese! Robin describes how you should start with storyboards to plan your SketchUp animations/walk-throughs and progress from simple low-resolution movies through to a sleek high res final presentation. During the process, no output is wasted enabling the production of video of varying quality from You Tube standard through to DVD and TV quality. </p><p>The final chapter introduces SketchUp’s sister program “Layout” which comes free with the Pro version and is desktop publishing software which allows you to compose stunning printable drawings using your SketchUp model scenes, “artistic impressions”, photo-real render images and Layout’s own 2D graphic symbols such as plan trees, North arrows, scale bars, people, vehicles as well as text etc. </p><p>Overall, to sum it all up, this book has been written by an author who knows his stuff and has a sense of humour! To the un-initiated, the technical jargon used sometimes and the very structured approach to working may be off-putting to some but the author always explains “what has just happened” later in plain English. This book is no “quick fix” for the impatient/occasional user of SketchUp, but for serious/regular users of this amazing software it tells you everything you ever wanted/need to know about using it to produce professional standard architectural/landscape visualisations. </p><p>In short, a “must have” book packed with a lifetime’s knowledge that will take several readings to take it all in. </p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://goo.gl/f33rk" target="_blank">SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualisation: Beginner’s guide</a> is by author Robin De Jongh and can be purchased now directly from PACKT Publishing as a traditional book or ebook.</p><p>Reviewed February 2011 by: </p><p><strong>David Beasley</strong></p></div>Quick Method Of Producing First SketchUp Drawing/Designhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/quick-method-of-producing2011-01-06T20:11:28.000Z2011-01-06T20:11:28.000ZDavid Beasley Garden Designhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/DavidBeasleyGardenDesign<div><p>Hi Folks</p><p> </p><p>The general vibe I get is that a lot of garden designers/contractors who currently hand-draw but want to enter the 21st Century "Digital Age" are a tad confused about how to easily take-the-leap and produce their first CAD drawing.</p><p> </p><p>To draw up an accurate garden survey and produce a bona-fide, professional looking design then i'm afraid that you really need to master a 2D vector graphics program such as AutoCAD (or equivalent). These programs have a steep learning curve and are best studied for on a night class over an academic year.</p><p> </p><p>For all 3D work, I advocate that you <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sketchup.google.com/download/gsu.html" target="_blank">download, learn and use Google SketchUp which is free</a>. Although SketchUp is strictly a 3D modelling program, you can use it to produce 2D output (Bigyin! :-)) if you turn off the perspective mode (Camera>"un-check" perspective and select standard views i.e. Top View - Plan, Right View - Elevation.</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, as I said, the key to using computers for garden design really is using a 2D program such as AutoCAD first and then importing this data into SketchUp to make it 3D and colour it up/add shadows etc.</p><p> </p><p>As learning 2D is going to take you some time and you may be impatient to draw up your driveway designs (for example), I've had a thought on how a SketchUp "Newbie" can quickly knock up there first 3D model/2D image without having to learn the 2D CAD bit first. I have not tried this method by the way and i'm making it up as I go along, but bear with me and it should work!</p><p> </p><p><strong>Workflow (n.b. all the following is based on using Google SketchUp 8):</strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Part One.</span></p><p> </p><ol><li>Download and install SketchUp on to your computer.</li><li>First select Window>Model Info>Units - and change all the settings to mm etc. (close the box and these will be saved).</li><li>Draw up your survey plan/design in pencil on tracing paper/copy paper as you would normally. Don't go into too much detail, just get your basic site layout sorted. The important thing to remember is to draw this plan to a scale that fits on to an A4 piece of paper (landscape or portrait).</li><li>Next, scan this drawing in to your computer so that it is clearly readable and save it as a JPEG.</li><li>Next, open SketchUp, delete the annoying person and import your scan as an image (File>Import>"browse" to find your scan>check - Use As Image>Open>"stretch" image to a reasonable size (exact size not important).</li><li>Create a new layer and make it current and visible (Window>Layers>press "+" to make a new layer>Check - visible>Move the "dot" to this new layer to make it the "current" layer>close window down.</li><li>Select the "pencil" tool and draw lines from the "points" (i.e. corners/intersections) on your scan to trace around your designs shapes and click on your first point to close the shape and make a "face". (Draw>Line).</li><li>Repeat the process until you have traced your entire drawing and created all the necessary faces to represent your design (N.B. press ESC when you need to move to a non-connected face. Also use your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out and improve accuracy).</li><li>Next, the "clever Bit!". Select the Tape Measure Tool (Tools>Tape Measure) and measure between two points on the drawing that you know an exact dimension (e.g. across a house window/footpath width). Notice the measurement recorded in the small box in the right-hand bottom of the screen! It will not be right at the moment but if you type in the correct dimension at this precise point and press "return" you will be asked "Do You want to re-size the model?". Select yes and your model will now be scalable (hopefully!).</li><li>Next, Camera>Zoom Extents - to get your image back!</li><li>Don't forget to save your model (File>Save As).</li></ol><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Part Two</span></p><p> </p><ol><li>Next, add some colour/materials/textures to your model (Tools>Paint Bucket>"click" arrow to activate drop down menu>select material group i.e. Vegetation>click on a "swatch" to select that material>click on face in model to paint it with that material.</li><li>Next, add some 2D tree/shrub components to your model (Window>Components>type "2D Plan Trees" etc. in search box and press return>click on preferred graphic>download component and follow instructions.</li><li>Next, "geo-locate" your model (Window>Model Info>Geo-location>Add Location>zoom and pan around map until you have found your sites location and follow instructions).</li><li>Next, Add shadows (Window>Shadows>play around with settings until you have what you want).</li><li>Next, turn "off" perspective (Camera>Perspective).</li><li>Next, make sure that you have all the SketchUp "toolbars" visible for use (View, Toolbars).</li><li>Next, find icons which look like various views/elevations of a house, select it and play around with it to see what it does - self explanatory!</li><li>Next, create "scenes" i.e. different views of your model, but first delete/make invisible the layer with your JPEG scan on. (View>Animation>Add Scene>rotate/zoom in/pan/select different views etc. and then make another scene).</li><li>Use the tabs to navigate between scenes and select them one at a time to export as a 2D JPEG image for printing etc. (File>Export>2D Graphic>follow instructions.</li></ol><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Part Three</span></p><p> </p><ol><li>Prior to exporting the 2D Graphic, you could have tried a few of SketchUp's built in "Styles" to make your graphic output look a bit more "arty" - even hand-drawn!!! (Window>Styles>Sketchy Edges>Fine Liner etc.).</li><li>I forgot to add, when tracing your scan, you are of course not just limited to using the "Line" command, you can also use the Circle, Rectangle and Arc ones also!</li><li>If you want to measure areas of faces in your completed SketchUp model for take off purposes etc., then (click on the face to be measured with the arrow selection tool [hold Shift when doing so to select multiple faces]>right click mouse button>Entity Info).</li><li>Did you know that you can import animations straight out of SketchUp for use on Youtube etc.? (View>Animation>Add Scene (lots of them 60+ to define your route on a walk-through)>mess about with settings etc. within Animation until you are happy with the results>File>Export>Animation>select "Options" button in the bottom right-hand side of the next screen to adjust output settings.</li><li>Off course if your garden site is relatively small and rectangular etc. (few seldom are, are they?) you can maybe draw your survey/design straight up in SketchUp without the need to draw it up on paper first (I sometimes do it this way!).</li><li>The correct way to do it though is to first draw your survey/design up in a 2D vector graphics program (e.g. DoubleCad XT) and import the resultant .dwg/.dxf file in to SketchUp for the fancy bits. The dilema here is that the FREE version of SketchUp 8 doe's not support this type of import for some reason (you have to buy the Pro version :-( ). However, there is a way around this, just intall free version 7 of SketchUp as this did support this and then once the file is exported and traced, open it in version 8 :-). In SketchUp 7 (File>Import>AutoCAD Files>Zoom Extents>then trace around the thick black lines to make them thin and create faces>use Tape Measure Tool to rescale the drawing!). To speed up the process <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.smustard.com/script/MakeFaces" target="_blank">install the Make Faces ruby script</a> and this will automatically do the previous).</li><li>I think that will do for now, If you've got a bit of time and really want to learn revolutionary methods of designing gardens/landscapes using SketchUp then I thoroughly recommend that you buy and read the following fantastic book written by American Landscape Architect and SketchUp Guru - Daniel Tal: <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="btAsinTitle"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Google-SketchUp-Site-Design-Architecture/dp/047034525X/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246289924&sr=8-9" target="_blank">Google SketchUp for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture.</a></span></li></ol><p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="btAsinTitle"><span class="font-size-2">Thanks for now</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-2"><strong>David Beasley</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-2">P.S.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-2">If any one reading this discussion has need for my </span></span> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/2d-and-3d-garden-design" target="_blank">2D AND 3D GARDEN DESIGN / VISUALISATION SERVICES</a> then please contact me and I will get back to you a.s.a.p. for an informal chat on how I may be able to help you.</p><p><b> </b></p><p> </p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://a-design-and-build.co.uk/" target="_blank">UK Based On-line Business To Business 3D SketchUp Garden Design Visualisation And Training</a></p><p> </p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.a-design-and-build.co.uk">www.a-design-and-build.co.uk</a></p><p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000;">*** UPDATE ***</span></p><p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000;">I've just come across the following video on Youtube that perfectly demonstrates a method similar to the above:</span></p><p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #0000ff;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://youtu.be/RpkGWfbpBuA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">VIDEO</span></a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000;">I learn't quite a few things watching this video and, if I've got time, I'm going to watch all of his 55 videos! </span></p></div>FREE CAD DESIGN SOFTWAREhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/free-cad-design-software2010-12-31T18:50:15.000Z2010-12-31T18:50:15.000ZDavid Beasley Garden Designhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/DavidBeasleyGardenDesign<div><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profile/jonwood?xg_source=profiles_memberList" target="_blank">A good friend of mine</a> has <em>"knocked up"</em> this website dedicated to FREE Computer Aided Design (CAD) for architectural (garden design?!) use.</p><p> </p><p>Please visit the link below!!!!!!!:</p><p> </p><p> </p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.freethecity.co.uk/#" target="_blank">http://www.freethecity.co.uk</a><br/><p> </p></div>Google sketchup 8https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/google-sketchup-82010-10-03T22:55:48.000Z2010-10-03T22:55:48.000ZKieran Rayhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/ouzelcontracting<div>I was just lookin to upgrade my google sketchup and came across version 8. I has loads of new features. This one grabed me the most. What do you guys think?<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/43Oc05luFBo?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"></param><embed wmode="opaque" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/43Oc05luFBo?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="false" width="640" height="385"></embed> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"></param></object></div>2D AND 3D GARDEN DESIGN / VISUALISATION SERVICEShttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/2d-and-3d-garden-design2010-09-30T13:23:33.000Z2010-09-30T13:23:33.000ZDavid Beasley Garden Designhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/DavidBeasleyGardenDesign<div><p style="text-align:center"><a target="_blank" class="noborder" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3284615340?profile=original"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3284615340?profile=original"/></a></p><b>Hi Folks!</b>Let me firstly apologise for hogging precious LJN band-width with the following blatant advertisement for my <b>2D AND 3D GARDEN DESIGN / VISUALISATION SERVICES</b> but I have written a detailed <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/2d-and-3d-garden-design">blog</a> on LJN all about them!There are cost effective services contained within that <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/2d-and-3d-garden-design">blog</a> post (some you may not have thought of yourself!) that may benefit you as either a Home Owner / Occupier, Commercial Property Owner / Occupier, Garden Designer, Landscaper or Retailer / Artisan!Services detailed include remote (internet based) 2D / 3D Garden Design for Home / Commercial property owners and 3D CAD Visualisation Services for "hand-drawing" Garden Designers and Landscapers including Rendered Images, Artistic Impressions, CAD Base Plans, Perspective Frameworks, Google Earth Models, Youtube Animations, Site Boards and more.All of the above done to a Professional Standard, Cheaply and with a quick Turn-Around.If you do not regularly look at the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/2d-and-3d-garden-design">LJN Blogs</a>, please click the link below to be taken to them.<u><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/2d-and-3d-garden-design">2D AND 3D GARDEN DESIGN / VISUALISATION SERVICES</a></u>Thanks<b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profile/DAVIDBEASLEY">David Beasley</a></b>(<a rel="nofollow" href="http://a-design-and-build.co.uk/" target="_blank">A Design And Build Company</a>)</div>Landscape Juice Network's SketchUp Models Now On Google's 3D Warehousehttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/landscape-juice-networks2010-02-11T18:47:19.000Z2010-02-11T18:47:19.000ZDavid Beasley Garden Designhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/DavidBeasleyGardenDesign<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">When you have spent hours creating models of gardens to present as images/drawings to Clients, why leave the model there languishing on your computer's hard-drive or on a memory stick?</span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"/></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Make the model work for you by up-loading it on to Google's 3D warehouse so that it gets picked up on Google searches and can be embedded into <a rel="nofollow" href="http://davidbeasley.blogspot.com/2010/02/sketchup.html">blogs/websites</a> as interactive revolving models and even Google Earth KMZ files directly in your browser.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"/></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">I am currently in the process of doing just this and have put my uploaded images so far in to this <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=6c6f00b7502be47bf2bf4ee2fc63531&ct=mdcc">collection</a>. Why not join me? In fact why don't you add your collection to the newly formed <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=e06ef00350129cccf2bf4ee2fc63531">Landscape Juice Network's Pooled Garden Design Models</a> collection which I have just set up!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br/></span></div></div>Which render tool is compatible with Sketchup and Vectorworks?https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/which-render-tool-is2009-11-23T22:54:34.000Z2009-11-23T22:54:34.000ZJackson's Landscape Designhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/JacksonsLandscapeDesign<div>HiI've been using Sketchup for 6 years now and believe that my creations will be enhanced by the use of a render tool.I'm currently learning how to use Vectorworks, in time I shall phase out Sketchup and replace with Vectorwork drawings.My problem is this, I'd also like to purchase a rendering tool that is compatible with both, I'm looking at the Vray render tool, I'm currently 1-2 years away from using Vectorworks as my concept / final design plans for clients.I also need to learn the correct render tool, I'm very keen to get started with the correct tool, can anyone assist with my decision? And point me in the correct direction please.Best, Kerry</div>New Group!https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/new-group2009-08-26T12:43:00.000Z2009-08-26T12:43:00.000ZDavid Beasley Garden Designhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/DavidBeasleyGardenDesign<div>Hi All,I've set up a new Group for:<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/group/usersofgooglesketchupfor3dgardendesignwork" target="_blank">Users Of Google Sketchup For 3D Garden Design Work</a>Please join.David</div>