Another shameless plug for SketchUp
I spent the better part of the morning designing a huge, open floor plan kitchen for a lovely couple from Dunedin . They want something interesting and contemporary, so I took their architect's renderings and shifted things around a bit as I am wont to do. Now, I want to show something interesting but in order to work in my industry, I'm compelled to use a truly inferior piece of software called 20/20. I've complained about 20/20 before, so I won't add to my list of public grievances. Not too much anyway.
My quest for an exciting kitchen began with an concept photo. Here's my suggestion. I'm love the supports underneath this glass bar, and I definitely just like the concept of sheathing a knee wall in bamboo veneer as has been performed right here.
Now a knee wall is usually a structural element that adds assist to an island or a peninsula. As a structural detail, we usually hide them. But in this situation, the designer drew attention to it, so much in order that it is arguably the point of interest of this peninsula. So for my thrilling kitchen task, I want to take the concept of this exposed knee wall in a peninsula and use it on an island. Two islands in this example. Easy proper? Wrong.
I paintings with a few very pricey professional software known as 20/20. 20/20 payments itself as "the sector's main indoors design software program." You need to have a license to buy it and operate it is how one of a kind a proposition this software program is. You'd suppose that with all that exclusivity, I'd be capable of render some thing such as the lower back of this peninsula to reveal to my clients. So you'll assume.
Here's the quality 20/20 may want to do after approximately four hours.
20/20 can't draw a curve on something this is status up, like my bar helps here. It cannot observe a bamboo veneer texture to my wall or supports. I can not display the curved glass bar. Not simplest can it not do maximum of what I want it to do, my device crashed 3 instances trying to get it as far as I actually have. PATHETIC. So now I get to inform a consumer at some point of a presentation "Ignore the ones directly helps, permit's fake they are curved like inside the image I showed you. Now pay me $forty,000."
That's honestly an unacceptable state of affairs. So my next alternative would be to hand draw the rendering above. However, that would take me the next two days to finish and I need to expose my ideas to these humans today.
So, I launched my FREE copy of Google's SketchUp and banged out this in about ten minutes. Now I ask you, how can software that cost three times as much as the laptop I run it on be trounced so soundly by software that's free for everybody? How does that happen?
