Awesome photos, excellent article!
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Beautiful Design and Build. The fit and finish inside and out looks excellent.
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Stunning. I love how the interior design really highlights the place.
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…and now the print issue of the June 2024 Connecticut Magazine is out. It’s a four page spread in print. The online article has more pictures.
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After working out this photo match method with this photo, I’ve wanted to do this animation for months and finally did something.
Still learning DaVinci Resolve.
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What I did there was work out an alternative approach to Match Photo using a Watermark and some help from camera meta data to use trial and error to line up the camera location with the 3D Spacemouse, but I just discovered after reading another thread and testing it out, it is possible to use Match Photo on a one point perspective after all. I’d swear I had experiences in the past that showed 1 point to be difficult, but I made is work here without much trouble.
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A couple years ago when doing the moment frame, I needed WF steel sections to play with so I made a bunch with the help of PowerCADD and Wild Tools - Steel section tool.
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Yet another Match Photo exercise to the rescue:
Having made the mistake of not saving any samples of the old, existing trim on an insurance total gut remodel, I needed to confirm a hypothesis of what that trim was. Match Photo did quite well with a surprising degree of accuracy. The tape measure certainly was important.
Match Photo scene
Orbit out and dimension
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This is very cool.
So with the tape dimensions on the photo you then scaled the inserted picture to match the tape lines modelled in sketchup? Then you traced the items needed?
More or less. The tape measure isn’t perfectly on axis nor is it flat against the wall surface, so it’s close but not perfect. The radiator was traced, and modeled with idealized numbers (I often start tracing and then enter a nice clean number instead of just clicking and getting some dimension that’s ~1.234 etc.) The baseboard was modeled from dimensions out of the catalog based on what I suspected it was and it matched almost perfectly. It takes a bit of an artist’s eye to place the origin within the photo, because you can’t actually see the corner point and have to imagine where it is.
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Here is edit Match Photo mode with back edges turned on. You can see the hidden corner and the yellow box for the origin.
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This is very cool, Im defiantly going to have to take a look at using it.
Sometimes the stupidest little things become a big deal, but you have to deal with it to go forward. Again, a client chooses something that doesn’t have any good CAD or component representation, so I have to make it myself. It becomes something of a personal modeling challenge like the Friday live modeling sessions. Here is a ceramic soap dish and a shower grab bar/shelf.
The spec sheet for the gab bar was a raster PDF (couldn’t find any vector content to extract), so I turned to PowerCADD to prep the 2D reference views because of it’s superior tools for arcs and 2D drawing.
The soap dish is mostly just guess work.
In use with ambient occlusion.
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Nice job. It’s all about the little details. 
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Excellent work 
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And another product representation: this one based on a specific lever and rose selection by the client.
Component:
In use in a model:
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To Clean or Not to Clean.
Many manufacturers don’t provide SketchUp models of their stuff (after all EVERYONE uses Revit, don’t they?), but some do. Kohler has a lot, but it’s just converted from some other 3D software and is a mess if you inspect it. Even simple flat surfaces are all massively triangulated. Here’s a simple towel bar from Kohler vs. cleanly reworked in SketchUp:
When you have the right stuff, you can fly through making SketchUp models at lightning speed, but without them immediately at hand, getting a SU model done correctly with the right details feels like getting bogged down in WWI style trench warfare.
Sorry for the rant. I love the days I fly with SketchUp and hate the days I get stuck in the mud.
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The Crash on DWG Import seems to be back on my desktop version, so quick solution: just do it on the iPad version. While I’m there, why not do the whole modeling exercise in the iPad version just for practice? Getting more comfortable with it especially Hover + Just Draw mode.
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