Are you working on a tea trolley? 
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Wow, that is an impressive mouse for us neglected lefties… do you have a model number?
I got a Logitech MX Master 2S for teaching, which is slightly pronated for ergonomics, but if I use it too much it still bothers my wrist. I’d have to move to something like this for a mouse if I really relied on one, but, as it is, I use the Wacom pen.
Presenting a full scale mockup is very cool, and that thing is tiny for a projector.
I was lucky in 2016 to get a minor supporting role when Marvin Windows and Doors opened a new experimental showroom in Boston called Marvin at 7 Tide. One room is a mock living room with a projector that projects customized door and window designs at full scale against one wall, all controlled by a custom written iPad app. It’s a fully lit room, so that projector has got to be really bright. I don’t know what they’re using.
They also had a 3D computer presentation not unlike SU for iPad except with a display the size of a desktop. Applying colors and textures is done by picking a physical sample out of the sample box and placing it on top of the display.
It’s all very slick, but what really matters to me is what the products look like in the context of my design. Luckily for that, they have some pretty good content in 3D Warehouse.
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It might be one of these, they make giant touchscreens plus interface, largest at facade sizes:
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“desk-vacuum-cleaner?”… I can see the reason you confused my personal bartender/secretary with an appliance.
However, this may explain better what this little guy does: R2-D2 RC Projector
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I wouldn’t have guessed him to be a projector. I recognized R2D2 for sure though.
I hope @TheOnlyAaron will use your hardware setup in his book as the setup to get your work done.
The only thing that seems to be missing is a comfortable chair.
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Sure do .
Razer Naga Left-Handed Edition.
Model No. RZ01-0341
Product No. RZ01-03410100
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LOL, it was moved out of the way for the photo… but, you can get a “glimpse” of it here: Office photos, one with chair.
macOS Catalina v10.15.7
Macbook Pro 13 inch mid-2012
2.9 GHz Dual-Core intel Core i7
8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536MB
additional 20-inch display (BenQ G2020HD)
Logitech MX Ergo mouse
additional keyboard that I scavenged from a friend
and, yes; standing desk…
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- Desktop computer with 2 connected monitors - a 34" and 27", both with same vertical resolution (seamless transition when moving windows)
- Ipad pro for sketching (Concepts app)
- Wacom Intuos pro and nothing-special wireless mouse for input
- Thinkpad laptop with dedicated RTX card for working at home / presentations at clients place (RTX for VR)
- Oculus Quest for evaluating and showing designs. Most of the time viewing VR using the link-cable to prevent having to spend time optimizing the VR model (needed when running the Quest in standalone mode)
- Whiteboard for sketching / to hang up original paper working drawings
- Not in the office today: a Xiaomi Mi Sphere 360° Camera - very handy for getting a good total overview of the building site / place that’s going to be remodeled.
- Multiple plants to give the office a nice atmosphere
Edit: maybe an interesting peripheral for some people; an egpu (external graphics card). I used this setup a few years ago when laptops with good graphics cards (for VR) still had insane prices.
- It was a Thinkpad P51 with low tier quadro card.
- connected using a thunderbolt3 cable to a gtx1080 in a Sonnet Breakaway egpu-bay (the black box on the left).
- That way I had powerful graphics at the office. When out of office just used the internal lower tier embedded graphics chip OR sometimes even packed the complete setup in a flight case and used it at the clients place…fun times ;-).
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Landscape Designer.
Electric up/down desk, good ergonomic chair.
I used to use a single laptop, moved to a more powerful one to run Lumion in the background, then upgraded to a powerful PC to run lumion.
Love my space mouse.
The 3 comps save project files to a small NAS server, which is duplicated on google drive, so that the companies that I work for all have access to their files at all times.
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I am late joining this but I will respond just in case. I am a HUGE believer in extra input peripherals. They save me tons of time. I am no longer young and I have trouble remembering all the multiple keyboard shortcuts for my graphics apps - most importantly Photoshop and Sketchup. I am keyboard dyslectic and an appalling typist. I have developed ways of mapping these shortcuts to other devices than my keyboard.
There are four devices relevant to Sketchup (and other graphics apps) in this photo.
The most important is the one on the left. It is a left handed keypad designed for gamers. It has 19 keys, a scroll wheel, two thumb buttons and a four way joystick. Using a third party software I can map these to do anything I want including multiple keypress macros. One thumb button is mapped to act as a shift for the keypad thus doubling the finger keys to 28. The driver is app aware and remaps the keypad according to the foreground app. So it is as invaluable for Photoshop as it is for Sketchup. Instead of remembering multiple keypress short cuts all I have to do is remember keys by function. Functions and tools are often similar in different graphics app. So I can map the keys so that the same keys will select things like pick tool, hand tool, zoom tool, zoom to selected, zoom to extents, fill tool, line tool, etc. regardless of the app I am running. The other advantage of this keypad is that I have all the modifiers: Option (Alt), Ctrl, Shift & Command, the arrow keys and scroll wheel zoom all ready under the one hand. Except for naming items I can push my keyboard out of the way and work with pen (or sometimes mouse) in my right hand and all the needed shortcuts and modifiers under my left. It’s a very economic and intuitive way of working.
In Sketchup I also use the simple basic Space Navigator. I love it.
I have a large surface drawing slate which is essential for Photoshop but I also prefer for much of Sketchup. For really fiddly precise selection or movement in Sketchup I switch to the mouse but for most work I am far faster with a pen. The slates eight buttons are also programmed for basic functions which would otherwise require multiple inputs.
I use a very standard three button mouse with scroll wheel. I use it’s buttons very little as everything apart from moving the cursor is available under my left hand.
I also work dual monitor. The advantages are obvious. These are both calibrated regularly with an external calibrator to keep them to a single standard and matched to one another. The small monitor shown here has since been updated to a larger 4K one.
So there we are. Odd … but it works perfectly for me.
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Same here. Razer Tartarus. Would be lost without it. 
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Interesting. Do you use your left hand for clicking with the pen too? I played with the idea briefly by taping over the tracking optics in a mouse and just using the buttons with my left hand for clicking.
No. I have always clicked right handed and used left for modifiers and commands.
This all started back in the day when I had an XL Wacom with an A3 drawing surface. It was supplied with a pen and a five button mouse that could be used on the slate’s surface. I discovered I could configure the mouse as a ‘button box’ where I could click the buttons but not move the cursor. Thus developed the idea of having all the main modifiers available under my left hand while I drew with my right. The idea of modifiers affecting a tool’s behaviour is universal to all graphic apps. Thus began my two handed style of working.
When Wacom ceased supporting that slate I needed a substitute. I did the same as you and put a tape on the underside of a standard four button mouse and used it in the same way in my left hand while I drew with the pen in my right.
Then I discovered a software for completely re-mapping input devices. I bought a standard numeric keypad and re-mapped it to provide not only the modifiers but a number of keystroke commands and macros as well and worked with this under my left hand.
Finally I discovered the Razer Tartarus gamer’s pad which I now use in a far more advanced form in the same manner.
It all just sort of grew from that first simple start.
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Nice toppic Aaron!
This shows my homeoffice working space.
Monitors: 2 x 27" QHD + 1 x 24" FHD
Keyboard: Logitech K800. I use the same one at work.
Mouse: Razer Taipan. This mouse has 6 additional buttons which I use for different shortcuts.
3d-Mouse: Unthinkable for me to work without this device.
Controller: Xbox-Controller. Sometimes I use it for flying through the Enscape-Window (and for Gaming)
Btw: Why isn´t it possible to open multiple 3d-Windows in SketchUp (like in the most other CAD)? 
Greetings, Peter
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I hope I’m not too late for this.
Here is my setup.
- There are 2 HP 27" monitors plus another lower resolution one at the top. With room for a 4th one but the space has been taken.
- The small little monitor in the middle is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and mainly used to monitor my time. I click Alt+S and it starts/stops to count in a “Pomodoro” style. That thing helps me focus.
- Also have a Wacom tablet that I use with Photoshop primarily.
- A 3D mouse that I can’t get used to.
- And a track ball Mx Ergo with 12 “gestures” for quick actions.
All the best with the book!.
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