Saying that the 'Arch Viz' community looks down to Sketchup is total, wrong, Yes there was some push and talk at the beginning of Sketchup, but with time this tool has proved itself and something as valuable as REVIT or AutoCAD.Īlso, the comment of 'We are Autodesk slaves' well dude, really, do you know how thing work in the USA Architecture industry? I think we all have learned that generalizing does not ever apply in this type of forum because honestly you never know who is in the other side, how long they been doing this or how really much you know what you are talking about. I laugh at you guys because you're all slaves to the Autodesk machine! I just cant bring myself to even want to learn it. I do think the arch viz community tends to look at SketchUp as Crayola crayons, maybe even the crappy ones you get at TGI Fridays with the kids menu.

You still need to learn how to drive, but it is a lot easier to find reverse, you don't have to worry about the clutch, or grinding your gears into a fine powder. I think of SketchUp as an automatic transmission and Max as a good ole manual transmission.

They way I saw the comment, and I fully agree with it, is that SketchUp took a lot of the mystery out of 3D in order to allow more people to do it. I guess you can do this with VRay and Max if you have a monster of a workstation to handle it. In 5 minutes, I can take any SketchUp model I have worked on, and walk through it with the Oculus Rift. The nice thing about Enscape is that it is a one click solution for VR. The tool doesn't matter, its the person behind the mouse that makes the art.

I use both all day every day in a professional environment and have produced imagery better than some of the things I see in the gallery page here done in Max. I take great offense to the attitude that Sketchup (and Enscape) is for 'dummies'.

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