Do you also see similarities in the image on the left page with images made in SketchUp? SOM. REALITY BEFORE REALITY. by tecnospa - Issuu PS. Image was created probably ~10 years before SketchUp :slight_smile:

In the background, that is… Bryce!

Any idea what it was done with?

I think their own software SOM AES

Alias Upfront, too, had quite a similar look and feel as SketchUp. I think it was first written for Silicon Graphics Unix workstations and later ported to PC.

You mean this is not SOM AES? In the book “100 Years of Architectural Drawing: 1900 2000” there is also one image similar to this from SOM office and in description is written that they used SOM AES. I searched a lot to see how this SOM AES looked like but did not find.

[image] robertjuch: You mean this is not SOM AES? No, you are probably right. I used to play with a trial of Upfront in the early 90’s but it was way too expensive then (and quite prone to crash). When I first saw SketchUp its display with the visible edges and realtime hidden line view remin…

[image] BSU: Before SketchUP there was ... Upfront Corner Bar Lee Anderson, the original author of UpFront, is an old “Friend of SketchUp” who used to come to 3D Basecamp back in the day. He is an associate professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Minne…

SketchUp or not?

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SketchUp or not?

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