petek, 25. april 2008

Architect wannabe

I spend a lot of my time using Google 3D Sketchup and SmartDraw. I have the free version of Sketchup that can be obtained online at http://sketchup.google.com/, while SmartDraw is only a trial version that can be used for 7 days before it expires and can be dowloaded for free from
http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/smartdraw.asp?id=104640&gclid=CJiMz9rw9ZICFQ-lQwodTHQZDw.
While Google's 3D Sketchup is quite an enjoyable experience, I am finding SmartDraw to be quite annoying and nerve wrecking at times (I guess I am being a perfectionist to the extreme here...). Especially once you're used to Sketchup and it's simple use and spot on precision.

So I am making a furniture study using the 3D Sketchup, it's purpose being conservation of space. I'll try to post that once I am fully finished drawing all the models that are floating around my head.
Apart from that, I got a really neat idea for a house (it's slightly insane... sizewise in particular) and am nearly done SmartDrawing an estimate of the ground floor. I'm posting it here now and I guess I'll post the SmartDraw sketch of the second floor and the Google 3D Sketchup sketch of the outside of the house (from different angles) sometimes later (quite later probably, since my final exams are coming up faster than they should be).

As promised, the ground SmartDraw sketch of the ground floor:















I guess I can't convert SmartDraw sketches into jpg. files, so this export-to-Word-copy-paste-to-paint-save-as is the best I can do.
As you might have noticed, the kitchen arrangement still needs work and since I'm tired, out of ideas, and need to go study I'll just finish it some other time.
I just hope all the elements in the sketch are visible enough and make sense.

A joke ending:
A burglar broke into a house one night.
He shined his flashlight around, looking for valuables; and when he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying, "Jesus is watching you."
He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his flashlight off, and froze.
When he heard nothing more after a bit, he shook his head and continued.
Just as he pulled the stereo out so he could disconnect the wires, clear as a bell he heard, "Jesus is watching you."
Freaked out, he shined his light around frantically, looking for the source of the voice.
Finally, in the corner of the room, his flashlight beam came to rest on a parrot.
Did you say that?" He hissed at the parrot.
"Yep," the parrot confessed, then squawked, "I'm just trying to warn you."
The burglar relaxed. "Warn me, huh? Who in the world are you?"
"Moses," replied the bird.
"Moses?" the burglar laughed . "What kind of people would name a bird Moses?"
"The kind of people that would name a Rottweiler Jesus."

(taken from http://www.amazingjokes.com)

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