Posted by Iain Stewart on March 11, 2004 at 01:52:25:Read in architosh.com:
"The big news for SketchUp at Macworld was the new SketchUp plugin for ArchiCAD users. This allows ArchiCAD users to bring in a SketchUp model and turn it into intelligent objects. Also, the company was actively showing how well SketchUp worked with other apps like Piranesi and Art-lantis 4.5."When I tried the first SketchUp demo well over a year ago I thought it was nice but lacked the precision necessary to be useful in the real world. Now from their website I see that it seems to have become a seriously impressive tool: SketchUp 3.0. A friend uses ArchiCAD, which seems to me as a spectator to be slow, cumbersome, limited to working with the "Sims"-like library objects he has to buy, and produces poor graphic output. But then he can slice his 3D buildings into sections, rotate perspectives at will and so on most impressively.
So what I am wondering of course is whether SketchUp could do a plugin for PowerCADD? In other words, intuitive 2D meets intuitive 3D, without stepping on each other's toes. Or are the two applications already intimately compatible (importing PowerCADD files straight into SketchUp and vice versa)?
Meanwhile it would be very interesting to hear of any recent PowerCADD 6 + SketchUp 3 experiences.
Iain
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