On 03-Sep-17 12:18 PM, Leon wrote:
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Your last statement, about 3D modeling, is what makes Sketchup so much
better than 2D software. You get to inspect and see if the components
fit together correctly. You literally can show some one your drawing and
they will understand what the project will look like.
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I know _eventually_ one can get to an end result and have enough
facility to be able to do it relatively quickly, but I'm surely having
difficulty in getting there, too...

I started some months ago to try to do what I thought was going to be a
fairly simple task to draw a rendition of the outside of the house which
is just an almost square two-story with hip roof (the length of the
ridge is about 4 ft, the difference from perfect square) from which I
could then add on the single story entry on the east and the kitchen on
the south. The end goal is to create a plan for redoing the entry way
as it was just an old porch folks closed in nearly 40 yr ago and it is
moving from lack of substantial foundation and buildup of yard around
from dust bowl days on.

Anyway, I managed to get a rendition of the outer dimensions and the
height to the upper roof line but in three days of trying I never was
able to get the roof added with consistent pitch and overhang...no
matter how I tried to create a plane and some points and pull up,
somehow it never interpreted what was desired correctly. I then tried
construction points to fix a point for the two ridge ends in space and
the intersections of the eave edges and fill in the planes -- that also
never managed to get slopes to match actual despite measured distances
being entered...spring planting then interfered and here it's September
and I've still not gotten anything altho it's now been at least a month
since last attempt...I'm just too "wore'd out" to spend two more hours
every night...I need one that says "draw that" shone a picture.

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