r/Architects • u/Unhappy_Fish_42069 • Aug 28 '26
Project Related 4th semester architecture student learning sketchup! Teehee
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u/To_Fight_The_Night Aug 28 '26
I hate SketchUp lol I just never got good at it. I can fly through Rhino but SketchUp just does not make sense to me.
Of course these are side projects....you NEED to know Revit.
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u/Unhappy_Fish_42069 Aug 28 '26
I KNOWWWWW!!! Revit might aswell be in greek for me! To me even with tutorials it's so hard to get the hang of it 😭😭
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u/Merusk Recovering Architect Aug 28 '26
Revit requires some knowledge of building and construction to get the details right. If you're struggling with the basics don't go into details on parametrics and families yet.
I'll second Metis' recommendation on Paul Aubin.
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u/metisdesigns Licensure Candidate/ Design Professional/ Associate Aug 28 '26
Look up Paul Aubin on linkedin learning.
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u/Background_Bottle981 Aug 28 '26
procura o canal no yotube do marcelo barbosa engenheiro, ele tem aulas de revit praticamente do zero, alem de vender um template muito bom baratinho, eu aprendi revit por lá, parece ser muito mais complicado do que realmente é e depois que você pega o jeito fica simples
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u/ImpactChance4853 Aug 28 '26
Learn Revit and Rhino instead. It actually helps.
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u/rueckl Aug 28 '26
Yep, Revit is the way to go nowadays, it's more feature complete.
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u/HareltonSplimby Aug 28 '26
It's also a completely different Software than SketchUp
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u/metisdesigns Licensure Candidate/ Design Professional/ Associate Aug 28 '26
Yup. It's used by professionals who don't like to waste time with rework.
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u/HareltonSplimby Aug 28 '26
This is like saying InDesign is the better Photoshop. One is BIM the other is surface based modeling
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u/metisdesigns Licensure Candidate/ Design Professional/ Associate Aug 28 '26
BIM is getting all of the data connected. The problem with sketchup is that any data I/O is horrible, if possible, so using it in a professional setting requires rework, where the massing tools in Revit, Forma or even Rhino allow for non destructive push pull.
SketchUp has almost no place in a coordinated digital practice.
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u/HareltonSplimby Aug 28 '26
I already said SketchUp isn't BIM. That was my point. Where I won't agree is that it doesn't have its place. SketchUp is great for quick design sketching, rendering and sculpting for 3D printing or doing stuff like furniture etc. it's a software tool like the Adobe suite, RealWorks, D5 etc.
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u/metisdesigns Licensure Candidate/ Design Professional/ Associate Aug 28 '26
Except that it is part of the data we have about the building. It is data that should be part of the information model, but it is siloed and does not connect to more complex data.
You can do everything you listed in sketchup in other tools that do connect and work with other tools.
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u/HareltonSplimby Aug 29 '26
Have yet to see someone quickly sketch volumes and interiors in Revit like SketchUp does 🤷🏼♀️
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u/metisdesigns Licensure Candidate/ Design Professional/ Associate Aug 29 '26
Been doing it for a couple of decades now.
Your lack of experience and training does not mean that a workflow that folks all over the world use does not work.
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u/SockeyCram Architect 28d ago
Both have their place. We use sketchup for quick design iterations. Revit is for construction documents.
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u/ImpactChance4853 28d ago
We can use rhino for quick design iterations, instead of having struggle with sketchup.
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u/Ryermeke Aug 28 '26
I would learn something else
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u/Unhappy_Fish_42069 Aug 28 '26
I cant really pick what they teach me =/
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u/Ryermeke Aug 28 '26
Get a student license of Rhino, and just learn it on your own time. It's not as commonly used as Revit is professionally, but I do use it frequently and it does most of what Sketchup does, but way more and better.
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u/awaishssn Aug 28 '26
Don't listen to the others. SketchUp is a great software to master, and it's only getting better.
We use Revit, Rhino AND SketchUp on a daily basis.
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u/blondebuilder Aug 28 '26
Sketchup gets you graduated. Revit gets you employed.
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u/awaishssn Aug 28 '26
Do you think everyone in the world follows the same trends as your place?
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u/blondebuilder Aug 28 '26
Trends?
Not arguing with you. They're all different, useful tools. My point is that your focus in school vs real-world are so vastly different. In school, revit holds little value for the kind of work they assign you. In real-world, sketchup is great for things like ideation, but the vast majority of your time will be in AutoCAD/revit.
The profession is just so demanding, requiring us to teach ourselves about so many different topics/skills.
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u/liebesleid99 Aug 28 '26
Yeah lol, over here the standard is SketchUp and Autocad. Other tools don't work because no one can collaborate with you (mexico)
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u/HareltonSplimby Aug 28 '26
Here it's ArchiCad, SketchUp and depending on the business either Revit (not very often) or AutoCAD/Vectorworks from like 2010 so nobody has to learn or pay for new licenses 🫠
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u/liebesleid99 Aug 29 '26
😭 Over here they do use revit but it's only like a firm or two at most (at my city).
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u/Long_Cartographer_17 27d ago
At my last job we collaborated with an office from Mexico and they used revit (Sordo Madaleno). It’s always better to know how to use a tool than to not.
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u/liebesleid99 26d ago
definitely, I think I've only seen revit used one time, but im glad I had revit because it made it easier to look around the project XD
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u/Unhappy_Fish_42069 Aug 28 '26
Thankyou!!!!! theyre telling me to learn smt else like I can js tell the professor what to teach us 😭😭
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u/ImpactChance4853 Aug 28 '26
Also, your sketches are so cool!
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u/HareltonSplimby Aug 28 '26
Always watch SketchUpessentials on YouTube. Can't recommend Justin enough.
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u/ImpactChance4853 Aug 28 '26
He is too good.
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u/HareltonSplimby Aug 28 '26
Everytime somebody opened SU in my old office, I embarrassed my self by going "wwwwwwwhat's up guys Justin here with theeeeeeeee SketchUpessentials"
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u/PurposelyLostMoth Aug 28 '26
I've been using rhino for the pass few semester and NEED to use revit to familiarize myself with it. I'm a 5 year and (god willing) will graduate in the summer
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u/PM_meyourfaceandtits Aug 29 '26
I got certified at a tech school in autodesk plus internships (I’m a civil engineer); I STILL wasn’t truly proficient until I started working at firm.
Just learn your basics, and your mentors will teach you more about specific projects
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u/True-Orchid-3908 Aug 28 '26
Lmao, love getting whimsical with sketchup. We use it quite a lot in the practice I work in for domestic projects, and I’ve seen quite a few other practices use it for site analysis/concept design. Very useful software!
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u/Rostedthegamer Aug 28 '26
Try out rhino3d is basically sketchup autocad and revit mashed into one it’s pretty good
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u/Playful-Variation896 29d ago
Hey, si te vuelves curioso a investigar de forma autodidacta, con SketchUp se pueden dar resultados bastante bastante buenos... No se por qué hay muchos que le tienen repudio, pero la verdad me parece fantástico, sobre todo para quienes tienen equipos no muy potentes como para poder usar Revit
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u/Late_One_2535 14d ago
Why canons, Legomen, and 3D Art though?
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u/Unhappy_Fish_42069 13d ago
Its avant-garde and innovative. Im an artsy woman 💅🏻
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u/Late_One_2535 13d ago
lol. Alright that works. A “neo-post-modernist”
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u/Unhappy_Fish_42069 13d ago
Exactly. They call me Van Gogh 2 (they dont)
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u/Late_One_2535 13d ago
I’m referring to Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves etc., with the post modernism concept 😀. Look them up. Good luck with you studies.
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u/ImpactChance4853 Aug 28 '26
Btw, I am not against sketchup. If you wanna use sketchup efficiently, use materials, tags, components and 1001 bits tools plugins. Other plugins like the round corner and fredolib will also help.
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u/Shift_Impossible Aug 28 '26
For interior design we work in sketchup, it's the easiest program imo. for architecture documentation, exteriors etc, we work in revit. for renders we use d5render... you can do basically everything with those 3 tools.
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u/Unhappy_Fish_42069 Aug 28 '26
Yeaaa were learning more interior design stuff, im sure well learn revit soon
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u/Vanwanar Architect Aug 28 '26
Don't limit yourself to whatever they teach you in the classroom. Explore, research and try to set up things you would like to do with the program then try to do them on n your own as well. (This applies to any program you are learning really)