BSU: Before SketchUP there was ... Upfront

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Here’s another aspect of UpFront output that I forgot about: Adobe Illustrator (i.e. vectored graphic)

Vectored output from SketchUp is just the lines while all the colors are raster. This produced filled polygons 3d->2d.

Timber Frame in AI
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Timber Frame in AI Det1
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Timber Frame in AI Det2
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You can get filled polygons from LayOut, though not for shadow volumes.

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Actually, I see I experimented with vectored output to Illustrator, and can’t remember now what the workflow was at the time. Looks like via PDF.

Test vectored output > AI-20200704
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I love the vector shadows. From the applications I know, only Archicad can output them today. It can also replace textures with vector hatching in vectorial views. It has its own (slowish) software render system for these views (OpenGL obviously doesn’t support them)

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Upfront and Ashlar-Vellum were the softwares I played around a bit with as I was coming out of school. Then formZ in grad school for my ‘paperless studio’ block.

I drew the timber frame porch addition for my parent’s house using Adobe Illustrator. I also did several schematic (2d) proposals for customers using illustrator, then I moved into AutoCAD for production where I worked and eventually SketchUp when I went out on my own.