Fun with SketchUp

I’ve been playing around with Google Sketch, a free 3D design tool. It is lots of fun to use it to design home layouts. Today I created an A. Quincy Jones / Eichler inspired atrium home. I didn’t get so detailed as to add things like kitchen and bath elements or fixtures though most of the interior walls and closets are blocked out.
The hardest part was getting used to some of the rules when I created the angled roof. I think I did it wrong as it broke the relationships of the anchors and so it took me some time to extend the walls and beams back where they needed to be.

I need to make or find a texture library for things like polygal (this model uses horizontal ‘mini-blind’ textures for the polygal sections), standing seam roof, among others.

If you want to play with the model yourself in SketchUp, here is the original file:
SketchUp model file.

For extra fun you can import models into Google Earth and see how it will look on that lot you covet.

Add comment July 16th, 2006