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| Free ArchiCAD-SketchUp add-on Graphisoft has announced its Virtual Building solution tie-up with one of the most popular architects' preliminary design packages - SketchUp. The integration of SketchUp with ArchiCAD lets architects and Principals alike, focus on creativity at the earliest concept phase of any new project, knowing that their designs can be automatically imported into ArchiCAD and further developed. This SketchUp add-on means, in day-to-day design terms, a smoother workflow from the building's very conception through to a 3D model. Now, even these earliest sketch concepts formed in SketchUp can be incorporated into the intelligent Virtual Building environment. Here detail can then be easily added, and data interoperability can open the model to a range of other applications. Feasibility studies of volume and materials can be performed at this sketch phase, linking the building data to the SketchUp faces in ArchiCAD to support the design brief at this early stage of client cooperation. You can win the project with your clear SketchUp concept design -- but now in ArchiCAD you can prove your design is viable. The simplicity and power in SketchUp has always been appealing to the design community at large, and now this link to ArchiCAD opens a natural path to integrated and documented virtual design and construction. Any Senior Designer will find the ability to transfer simple SketchUp models into a productive and documented ArchiCAD Virtual Building appealing. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |