Sketchup & SiteOps

I've been hankering, toying & finally playing with using Sketchup in our particular line of landscape work.

Doing a bit of due diligence (..take that as a bit of reading) I came across this review of a piece of sofware called SiteOps that sits alongside/integrates in Sketchup that looks real interesting. There's a great demo video & description here

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2011/11/siteops-conceptual-design-for-land.html

Also, if you're anyway doing landscape / architectual designs and/or hardscaping (driveways/patios) etc SiteOps looks real interesting. You can take KML files with topological data and have it work out cut & fill and loads of neat tricks.

Now trying to find out techie requirements and costs for SiteOps etc (as basic Sketchup V8 is still free ?)

Finally, excuse me if this is old hat to those of you that know Sketchup and/or have used SiteOps 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 ;-)

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Phil Voice December 22, 2011 at 5:30pm

Isn't that a brilliant tool?

Thanks for finding it Gary. With your permission I'll add this to the Sketchup group too.
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Gary RK December 22, 2011 at 5:34pm

Absolutely.

I'm sure it's an expensive piece of software at the moment, but history has show that bleeding edge technology today, becomes the basis of consumer products in the near future....well we can hope it does ;-)

Phil Voice said:

Isn't that a brilliant tool?

Thanks for finding it Gary. With your permission I'll add this to the Sketchup group too.
Craig McGibbon December 22, 2011 at 5:45pm

wow a powerful tool
Peter Woolnough December 22, 2011 at 7:30pm

Let us know when you find out its costings.

Great find.

Peter
Andy Westacott December 22, 2011 at 8:53pm

Looks like a great tool, I'm assuming when you do that initial grab from google maps you could go down close enough to cut out a specific garden?

http://www.siteops.com/experience/pricing
Steve Barker December 26, 2011 at 3:13pm

It looks superb except for the price;

SITEOPS® software is available for purchase starting at $3,000 per annual license.

Steve
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Sam Hassall December 29, 2011 at 9:33am

Is there anyone in this group using Siteops and have they actually done some cut fill calcs with it? I would like to talk to someone about doing some occassional calculations for me on cut fill differences between an existing and proposed design. I use Autocad but I do beleive that this is compatible with Sketch up. You can contact me by relplying to this thread or from my profile on the LJN network. Thanks. Sam Hassall