On Feb 27, 2:07*pm, RicodJour wrote:
On Feb 27, 9:50*am, Robatoy wrote:



But to suggest that one can build a 300K house with SU is misleading
as you fail to include the fact that YOUR ability to do so includes
your vast and well-developed skill-set. Your skill-set can build that
house without SU, IOW, what you got there is a sharper, better pencil.
Period.

You make sharper, better pencils sound like a bad thing. *That's all
anybody is ever looking for - a better, sharper pencil (tool/thing/
whatever). *I don't expect the pencil to be my only tool, and neither
would I expect any one program to get things done.

I certainly don't mean to imply that it is a bad thing and I don't
think I did.


Someone could use almost any program to build a house. *I could design
a house and do the design drawings in Photoshop.

Exactly, to say that you can use SU to build a house does therefore
not validate the software but the builder, who can use anything if he
knows how to build a house in the first place.
I have 20 years and thousands upon thousands of dollars invested in my
software, yet I cannot design, much less build a boat. The software is
very capable as a tool to a boat builder, but *I* cannot design/build
a boat. Owning software with capability means dick.
If my problems are such that my selection of software DOES solve them,
then I am a happy camper. And I am.

SketchUp can be made to sit, stay and speak if someone wants to invest
the time.

SU is inadequate for my needs. That doesn't make me a bad person
*plinks away a tear*

*From the stuff you've posted it seems that you have found
something that works for you. *We should all be so lucky.

Luck didn't have much to do with it. Tenacity, hard work and some
college courses in how to interface with the rest of the planet in
terms of drawing/blueprint standards. On paper and in digital
formats. I got into a proper discipline and stayed with it. Then when
software that I could afford and could handle Non Uniform Rational
Basis Splines came on the scene I was feeling pretty damn lucky then.
Bolted onto a real rendering engine, again, the format exchange was
crucial... and now the CNC is on line, even more so.

So yes, one can build a house with SU, but will it be a better house?