Finals Week + SketchUp Renderings

It's the last week of the semester, and I am dying.  So much work to complete. I didn't actually sleep last night.  Two I worked on over the weekend aren't particularly difficult. Just tedious.  It doesn't help that one of the programmes I was using kept shutting off/crashing on me randomly. It's was annoying to have to keep remembering to save after every few changes or lose work.  Having to wait while the computer/programme does its thing/takes time to render/save (It's an old computer. I'm generally perfectly happy with it, just not so much when rushing assignments.

On the plus side, I now know how to convert .pdf files to .jpg, and to combine separate .pdf files into one file.

So one of the courses I'm taking is AutoCAD for Interior Designers, which is more interior design focused content, compared to the more engineering focused Basic AutoCAD course I took last semester. One of the more major assignments in this course was to produce the floor plan and elevation (one wall only) of a Hotel Suite. (See below.)

The cool thing is, our instructor/professor (I'll post some thoughts about this in another post) decided to introduce us to another programme called SketchUp, which makes it easier to do 3D modelling. We were tasked to come up with a 3D model of the above Hotel Suite. Behold.

Top View

Elevation of North Wall, as per my .dwg

South Wall 

(doors were left off, as per instructions)

Elevations of the living area:

North Wall

East Wall

South Wall 

(yes, I have to work on my horizons/horizontals)

West Wall

Bathroom

South Wall

(hmm... should have added a picture above the WC)

East Wall

West Wall

North Wall

Bedroom

North Wall

East Wall

South Wall

West Wall 

(do you spot my mistake?)

All the above were elevations, because that was what we were supposed to turn in.  However, SketchUp is a 3D modelling programme, so we can have cool 3D perspectives as well.

Like this one peeping through the window.

View from the door.

Close-up on the kitchenette.  

(Hmm...does it qualify as a kitchenette if there is no stove? Maybe not.  Ok, close-up on the amenities in the room.)

3D perspective of the bedroom area. This picture has the luggage rack, and many of the previous did not as I only remembered to add it in near the end, and there wasn't time to retake all the pictures.

Ok. That's it for now.  Now to go write an essay for the most boring course this semester. (For me personally.  I never liked studying history.  I am interested in it, but not from a book.  I much prefer learning about history through documentaries, or through human stories, with just enough history to be aware of the situation/circumstances.)

Ta for now.