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I did use AutoCAD LT2000i but Revit is insanely powerful and fully featured for architecture and construction if you know how to use it well. If you have 30 years of AutoCad, Rhino, 3D sMax etc behind you, all this is quite hard to get your head around it!

Great thing is if the customer doesnt like your fireplace design, its just a sub group, hide it and make another group, called ‘Fireplace Apr19’ etc That way if ‘something happens’ you haven’t destroyed half a days work and you can build your drawing ad-infinitum. On very large drawings, I find the the easiest way in SketchUp is hide virtually everything, draw on the blank outer group (so it doesn’t auto merge or join with another group), when complete, make into group and move it to correct sub-group. However there is a point where you cross the line of playing and commercial reality. The columns and beams will be a group etc. The concrete slab will be a group with holes in it for the lift shaft, stairs, ducts etc. If you site manage, arrange your groups so that they mirror the constructional sequence. Everything must be groups within groups within groups and components for repeated groups (such as joist, window, door, oven unit).

If you are an architect, forget layer management in SketchUp and only use it as a presentation feature. This is not unique to AutoCad/SketchUp and drives me insane! The solution is to make a dummy copy of your AutoCad drawing, remove all thickness, layers, in fact everything! Export that and it will work great. Once this is in ANY drawing, you are screwed forever with no known cure because nothing finishes up square, vertical or aligned and slowly but surely the drawing collapses because corners are a fraction of a mm off the snap. Import issues from AutoCad are caused by the line thickness, if you have polylines of set thickness, SketchUp imports the front and rear as two lines, making two faces, each 0.3mm (whatever) apart BOTH missing the snap.

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