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Our winter home which the county says is too small
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Photoshopping foundation headers, piers and a connecting wall for the addition
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Laying boards to approximate S & E borders of the proposed addition |
SketchUp generated floor headers
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Same headers, just white, before cutting off excess |
Floor level one of four and setting pier positions
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Four levels to raise the SE corner above the rocks |
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My model version 1.0 (out of 3)
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Initial 1st floor interior. My wife said "No".
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House sized T-111 panel composite before cutting to fit the south side
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After cutting to fit the west side
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Rear tie-ins to existing structures
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The extended roofing is designed to blend into the background picture as seen below far left |
Very cool SketchUp features: 'transparency' and 'hidden' |
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Preparing to fit a downloaded door and try out a 4 panel slider
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Adding downloaded iron balcony and window boxes
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Downloaded and stretched a rock to represent terrain
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Temporary grey rectangle serves as a 'knife' to cut through downloaded iron railing |
Temporary 'cutaway' allows work on opposite inside wall, etc. |
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Drawing terrain lines the hard way did not work out ...
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The thousands of resulting slope lines bogged down the CPU |
Simply outlining and 'lifting' the terrain minimizes the drain on the system ... |
SketchUp automatically computes a minimal 'web' within the outline |
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Filled the 'web' with a selected sand-like pattern
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The rock was downloaded from Sketchup's 3D-warehouse |
Somebody actually made that rock and uploaded it to the warehouse |
Walls, etc, temporarily 'hidden'
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Traded the 4 panel slider for two twin panels
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Need that center post between the sliders for support
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My model version 2.0
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Redesigned the entire model after getting true elevations with a real laser level
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Raised the SE corner, and everything attached, by 3 feet
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My model version 3.0 |
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One temporary 4 sided box 'cuts' a window hole through all walls
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Will the building inspector go for this? |
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