SketchUp bridge for Sustainable Technology

 I wanted to share this post as it was a small milestone for me. I find myself more capable of using SketchUp the more I am force to interact with it. I had to create an axonometric for a hard construction detail of decking. I was dreading this the whole semester and left it last minute to complete.

Fortunately I found myself enjoying the process of designing this as there was a lot of problem solving and I had to mentally disassemble the design to create the axonometric. 

PROCESS

I created the footing for the decking with the correct heights and worked out which part would be sunken underground 

I drew out the parimetre of the decking and began to mark up where the beams and joists would go 

I created the 3-D joists and beams 

I lined it all up together 

I began placing the beams with a certain distance apart 

I then had to insert the joists 

I attached the posts into the gaps between the joists which took a bit of time to line up accurately 

I had to layer the joists in 2 separate layers which was difficult to avoid interrupting the grid beneath

 

FINAL LOOK - I peeled away the decking board so that the viewer could see the structure beneath the decking 

I completed this within half a day