I’m interested to know if you kept up with Procreate? It’s been my go-to drawing of choice for years (since it came out). I actually used to do all of my on site drawings/ notes/ adjustments on it. Of course I’ve embraced SketchUp for iPad like a fish that didn’t know water was a thing.
I find them both incredibly intuitive, but in procreate, because there’s no scale (basically a sheet of fancy paper) I’ve become insanely good at ratio drawing. Knowing the sizes of most things on average and using that knowledge to extrapolate fairly accurate ‘drafts’ on the fly.
Of course that always comes in handy when you tell a client that something is 30", they look at you and nod slowly, and then you go ‘same height as the table’ and then they have a visual.
I looked at it a while back, and have a copy, but as with everything, I’m spread so thin, I never have time to learn everything I want. I’ve already gotten rusty with Procreate, which I like a lot.
I also used it for android and it’s nice but drawings still can’t be scaled there nor your strokes return their length.
What makes concepts work so well for us architects is both measurements and vector lines. In Procreate your strokes become pixels, so you can’t edit their geometry, or change their width, or erase a single stroke from a drawing, or change it’s brush the day after. In concepts you can, as strokes are vectors and yet all feels sketchy and not at all cad.
It all comes down to what you’re used to, and feel comfortable with in the end.
Have you checked Morpholio Trace? I personally don’t like it, but I’ve seen Procreate architects transition to it very well and it accepts models from Sketchup for iPad. Maybe it’s worth a shot in your case.
I don`t quite understand this. Do you mean: (as an example) displaying a SU 2D window component over a continuous 3D wall in an architectural plan scene, instead of actually making an opening in the 3D geometry?
…Some more observations:
I have been making friends with Curic Section; I like that this extension combines hatches, lineweights and management of sections and scenes
Unfortunately tag-toggling does not achieve the isolation of CuricSection`s graphic elements - they disappear along with controlling tag visibility of 3D geometry.
By the way, hiding elements below the section cut works from a graphic output, but I stay away from managing visibility with the hide method - it becomes too cumbersome in a complex model.
RE: Making 2D dashed lines with lineweight in SU, for annotation of 1: 5 architectural details :
Has anyone used dynamic components that are ‘stretchable’ with the scale tool - you know, one with fancy coding that can display more and more dashes with increased length?
I also worked with TIG`s extension ‘2D Tools’ to generate coloured dashed lined with a linewidth. Unfortunately, the tool has no option for amendments post conversion of a normal line into a ‘graphic’ line. Here is a fictional 2D detail mocked-up in SU. The red dashed line want to represent a membrane.
