Friday 7 December 2018

Getting there, sort of...

Why oh why cannot the programmers of Sketchup, get out and have a look at the way Autocad does pan and zoom? (He ranted).

How hard would it be to have the mouse wheel do a pan instead of orbit?  Just gets cumbersome coming from Autocad to do such basic things. Maybe there is a way of customising this.

A quick google found another person who came across the same problem:

Quoted here from SketchUcation by by Macho3001 » Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:17 pm

"My problem is this: - I work on models in both sketchup and Revit/ AutoCAD/ Max Design. Unfortunately, the middle mouse button in sketchup and the other Autodesk software is EXACT OPPOSITE. While Sketchup uses Middle Mouse Button (MMB) drag to orbit and Shift+Drag to Pan, Revit-ACAD-Max do the exact opposite, MMB drag to Pan and Shift+Drag to Orbit. After having been a long user of Sketchup over the years I have learnt that Sketchup way of assignment is more suited for productivity and ease of use, as one tends to orbit (& zoom) more, rather than pan, while navigating 3d space."

Well, there you go: the answer is just hold down middle  mouse button and shift at the same time!

Progress on the house model has been achingly slow, but it appears the outside is done, albeit a bit rough.  This is an actual house renovation I am working on at work at the moment, all that is happening is the garage at the front is being stretched.

This is a Vray render:


This is the Sketchup model:


This is an Enscape Render (Instant rendering-unfortunately my trial period has run out so I had to be happy with a screen shot.  Excuse splodges!




1 comment:

  1. Not bad bill. Not bad at all. Instead of Enscape, bring it into UE4 with materials.

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