Use SketchUp to replace AutoCAD, Revit and Plant 3D, etc.?

diacreek · July 21, 2015, 3:15pm

What a chance to use SketchUp to replace AutoCAD, Revit and Plant 3D in industrial and ICI projects?

Thanks,

Bill Wang P.Eng.
Diacreek Engineering Inc.

anme · July 21, 2015, 5:00pm

I don’t know what means an ICI project but with SketchUp Pro + SketchUp Layout + Dibac you will go forget Autocad and Revit.

There is others plugins for increase productivity of SketchUp like BuildEdge, Skalp, Condoc, etc.

DanRathbun · July 21, 2015, 5:16pm

ICI is an abbreviation which may mean **I**ndustrial, **C**ommercial, and **I**nvestment real estate, or simply, commercial real estate.

Guy · July 21, 2015, 6:41pm

There are very good extensions to help you replace AutoCAD or Revit with SketchUp
I always worked with Vectorworks and we developed the Skalp for SketchUp plugin ( www.skalp4sketchup.com ) to replace VectorWorks with only SketchUp. Today the only software we use is SketchUp Pro in combination with a few plugins.

anme · July 21, 2015, 11:31pm

I think 4D Virtual Builder can be a strong candidate for this approach.

@Guy, can you say some plugins that your team use? Maybe can be useful for me too.