Exterior Details: SketchUp+LayOut LIVE

[Donovan]

This week, @eric-s is continuing @TheOnlyAaron construction detail from last week and focusing on exterior landscape construction details, utilizing both SketchUp and LayOut.

Come hang out with us tomorrow at 12pm CST on YouTube, Facebook, or LinkedIn

[ahmad_511]

5 minutes left,
See you there @eric-s and all of the loyal friends

[keggification]

great session guys

[eric-s]

Thanks everyone for tuning in. Quick recap for those that missed it:

1. Went from 2D CAD reference image to 3D in SketchUp
2. Applied materials from both SU’s default materials browser and V-Ray Cosmos
3. Overrode those materials with a ‘Drafting’ style using Color-By-Tag mode
4. Made sure to have both 2D plan and 2D FaceMe plant symbols loaded and tagged for visibility
5. Sent SU to LO for arranging, scaling and annotating - covered stacked viewports, style & tag overrides, scrapbooks, and clipping masks
   Whew…was that all? Happy Friday!
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

[PHensey]

Thank you @eric-s for showing this process.
We use a few additional techniques to make our landscape construction details work: In SU we often setup semitransparent white planes just behind the sectional views to give the effect you showed of being “knocked back”. In addition, (as we do hundreds of details) we have extensive libraries of paving units, bricks, CMUs, etc and we simply assemble them (like Lego) to form the detail. We almost never add mortar. Using assembled groups/ components means that the joints become obvious in section (or end view) so we just add a label. Mortar filled joints often do not show up in isometric either. With unique or new materials we take phots and apply to the master model (often a rectangle), with little regard for texture size. We get it to look correct on a face or as a repeat. When the model for the component is correct we then use the material resizer extension to reset the texture size. What’s great about this is the control you get. A 4k texture often looks indistinguishable when reduced to 1k or less, but you can experiment to keep reducing until it deteriorates too much. (of course we purge before saving the final version).
As our files are used both by other landscape architects and in our online library (see below) we find that saving views with Ambient Occlusion can be too much when opened by others so as nice as the images can be, we have to try and supply the smallest file sizes possible. You might have mentioned or perhaps will in future, that a Layout file exported as a DWG also auto creates an Image folder. Users of other software such as Vectorworks, can import the DWG and associate the file/s with that image folder to bring in all of the colour and hatch fills. Many of our clients who request or use the library details don’t even use SketchUp.
Our online library of Landscape Construction details:
www.paulhensey.com
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