Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Architectural Design with SketchUp
see in Figure 3.26, the office was simply created on top of the snapshot image that came
into SketchUp through the Add Location tool.
Another example is the design of a gardener’s clock (basically a sundial), as shown in
Figure 3.27.
Figure 3.26: Using location information for accurate shading
studies for an office
Figure 3.28: Plan view of the sundial with the Shadow Settings window
Figure 3.27: A gardener’s clock, designed using SketchUp’s
shadows feature
As you can see in Figure 3.28, the placement
of the square stones was determined by adding a
location to the SketchUp model and then setting
SketchUp’s shadows to the accurate time and date.
The inner circle represents the spring equinox (3/21),
and the outer ring is accurate at the summer solstice
(6/21). Changing time to each full hour on those dates
produced the locations of the hourly stone markers.
As mentioned, you can use geo-located SketchUp
models in Google Earth and many other geo-based
software packages (e.g., ESRI ArcGIS).
One additional aspect of geo-based modeling that
is not covered in this book is phototextured building
modeling. To learn more about this, I encourage you
to read Aidan Chopra’s book Google SketchUp 8
for Dummies or visit SketchUp’s tutorial site:
http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/yourworldin3d/index.html.
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