Hi, I am helping a friend in the UK with their Barn Conversion application, and I am using Sketchup to help produce some initial drawings.
I am looking for a template that will help me produce something along lines the second attachment that I downloaded from a local planning portal.
Is there a template I can use for UK planning applications.
Sample.pdf (284.8 KB)
This isnât really a thing that a SketchUp template is going to help you with. This is more of a documentation thing for which LayOut would be well-suited. You would need SketchUp Pro for that. Otherwise, you could export images from SketchUp and import them into a word processor or some other program for adding things like the text.
Thank you for your reply. I have just tried exporting a Sketchup image as a JPEG and importing it. I am still within the trial period of the software so I will have a look at the LayOut function.
Also the âFreeâ [aka âMakeâ ] version of SketchUp is explicitly provided, with the proviso that it is NOT to be used for âcommercial purposesââŚ
Your making a âplanning applicationâ sounds like one to meâŚ
Also your attached model is set to use / dimensioned in imperial '/" - but in the UK âmetricâ submissions have been de riguer for many yearsâŚ
And of course it also lacks significant details [like its site and a few details of its expected form, that would currently make it inadmissible as a full submission anywayâŚ
So more work is neededâŚ
I think you might need some professional helpâŚ
Sometimes being keen on a project is not enoughâŚ
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You are making an awful lot of assumptions TIG.
Your reply makes you sound like a complete idiot.
[/quote] That might be your opinion.
However, nothing I said is untrue.
Your details say you use SketchUp âFreeâ, so âcommercial useâ is precluded [that includes anything like making a planning application on your own behalf - or a friend - [please read the ToS for clarity] ].
Even with the âtrialâ period of Trial>Pro the results cannot be used âcommerciallyââŚ
AlsoâŚ
Your âimperialâ model units will not be NOT acceptable when used in a planning submission in the UK.
Your model as offered to us is also insufficient to support a UK planning application - considerably more detail is needed.
So you do need to do more workâŚ
I may well appear to you as a âcomplete idiotâ [to you], but somehow I got to be one of the select few who are known as âSketchUp Sagesâ.
I am also an RIBA architect based in the UK, so I might just know a few relevant wrinklesâŚ
Take criticism and advice gratefully - if you donât, then you are fucked. [weirdly the online forum censors missed that one !]
Not very constructiveâŚ
I am only trying to help.
If you cannot accept help [or criticism] then that is up to youâŚ
Better to get criticism here on the drawings then coming from the local planning council people I would think. Your friend might prefer an easy process without criticism from the authorities as well.
Just my 2c - (architect in the Netherlands).
You sound like a bit of an entitled nimrod.
The folks here know much about SketchUp and are merely only trying to help you out.
Simon
Personally I have found this forum to be invaluable for a wide range of SketchUp challenges. Sounds to me like the problems youâre trying to work out here are well within the capabilities of SketchUp and layout. In fact the SketchUp / Layout platform is tailored specifically to the task.
It might be helpful to review the forum etiquette Pages here:
and do a âCTRL+Zâ with your approach to forum members. If you can process the information already given through a new lens you could soon end the struggles you came to the forum with in the first place.
RespectfullyâŚ