[Radiance-general] RE: Sketchup exporter script

[Terrance McMinn]

Hello All,

Thomas you have made an excellent contribution to the radiance community
with your SketchUP exporter. I assume this script would also work with
the free Google Version of SketchUP as well. That software was of
limited use to radiance modelling as it did not have the 3DS converter
available in the PRO version.

A point here, for the Google SketchUP (free version) users would be for
the user to manually modify the 'sky' file for location and orientation
as that option works differently from the PRO version of SketchUP.

To this effect a couple of extra comments in the 'sky' file for the
novices would be useful.

With regards to accuracy of modelling using SketchUP, simply use the
mouse to indicate direction and then enter the distance with the
keyboard. This allows wonderful unit conversions on the fly during data
entry. For example say your units  are in metres and you want an offset
of 50mm, type 50mm or 2" and SketchUP will do the rest! It even
understands entries such as 2",100mm for a rectangle.


Regards 

Terry Mc Minn
Faculty of Built Environment, Art and Design
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U 1987 Perth 6845 Western Australia
Email: T.Mcminn at curtin.edu.au
CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J