Sketchup Sessions with Sai

Today was a day of firsts. Akshay and Monica’s first day at office, my first day interacting with people on site, the first time we interns tried ice-cream from corner house and also the first time many of us took our designs into sketchup.

A few of us struggled with getting started, facing issues with things like importing the drawing and realising halfway through that the drawing wasn’t too scale. Some of us just took forever to make the surfaces, line by line. Half the day was almost up and nobody had a model that was even near completion.

Noticing this, Sai immediately called us all and sat us down for a crash course in sketchup. Apparently we’d all been using sketchup wrong (some of us more so than others). A quick introduction to the software and we realised how different it was from autocad. The layers worked differently on sketchup and the outliner was more like cad layers wherein you could group things. Ultimately we realised that sketchup is the kind of software that has an affinity for organised people. If you systematically work in components and groups, your laptops and computers will love you for it. (You know who else will love you? The people who have to work on the same file after you)

And so we started with our first sketchup session. Slowly, steadily all of us are practicing and improving our 3D modelling skills. A few more sessions and we’d probably end up being better than Rambo!

P.s. Rambo is brilliant. You don’t have to take my word for it. Go check out our Instagram page @sandarbhdesignstudio for updates on his models and insanely realistic renders.

-Mannat