Sketchup Modeling: Giving Form to Imagination

The existence of CAD services in the construction and many other industries like electrical, plumbing, and mechanical have lead to quality products. CAD drafting has helped the designers to bring in innovativeness and customization to their products. CAD has surpassed the manual drafting by providing the designing process with its unique features. The built-in features of CAD provide easy accessibility to the designers for 2D and 3D drafting and designing purposes. The range of CAD services include AutoCAD drafting, CAD Drafting, CAD conversion, 3D designing, 3D drafting and CAD outsourcing. The process of structural CAD drafting helps to prepare a 2D or 3D image of an imagined design on a computer to obtain it in a digitized format. This digitized designs help to make quick changes and alterations in the designs as well as examine even the minor parts of the product before it finally gets a practical form. Many types of software are used to customize the designing process of various products. Every different type of software has their own specialty that provides a unique advantage to the designers. One of such significant software is the Sketchup modeling. Sketchup was originally designed as a tool for architects and engineers and not for the designing of real-time environments for which it is used the most, nowadays, especially by Google. The reason was the presence of too many polygons in it, which restrained its use in creating quick designs. However, after experimenting many of the models of Sketchup in the 3D warehouse, the technique was finally brought into use for Google Earth and Wonderland. Sketchup Modeling is capable of giving a form to the most innovative and impractical imagined designs. Another software that is competent of decreasing human efforts and possibilities and flaws and mistakes in the design of products is the BIM modeling. BIM or building information modeling is the software associated with construction industry. The process of BIM helps to generate and manage all the information related to the building structure while the period of construction. Its use is made to improve the efficiency and productivity of building design and construction using three types of softwares namely three-dimensional, dynamic building modeling and real-time. These softwares help to keep an organized and easy to access record of all the information related to the building. This information includes the geometrical and geographical figures along with the calculations of dimensions, area, labor, and cost of production.