Gadgetory

my name is Caitlin measely I'm an artist and architect I've had a career in the arts for the last 20 years most of the work is large-scale drawings on walls and I've decided to pull those drawings off the walls and actually create those architectural pieces themselves and now I'm gonna try out the Microsoft Surface Studio - so this is Sketchup it's a software that many architects use lighting designers use it's also an easier version than AutoCAD or or Revit which is which are more complex that's one of the great things about Sketchup is that it's it's basically easy you can just play around you can apply like colors and textures this is nice actually this feature that I can really do that but also hold the stylus at the same time I had an impulse to turn the whole screen this way or diagonal so that I could lean into it a little bit more I'm a little hesitant to put my hand on it I'm trying to figure out where to put my elbow I work on a drafting table so like for me the drafting table is a lot like this it's it's either flat or flat low like a desk or flat raised and sometimes this is actually quite nice because if there's someone sitting next to you and you need to show them a specific detail or you're making a presentation of your work then this is actually quite good I think that it's great for explaining spaces as if I was designing a museum this would be like a conceptual idea for a space or something it could be a Nature Center or a library or water treatment be something like that you know if you're drawing for a large period of time you know you can get yourself to sit up and that's something that that architects and artists have to be careful of is their postures in their back like always leaning over so actually it's quite a good idea to be like oh I need to sit up this is great for what you're sketching you're doing concepts you're doing site planning programming diagrams I really like the way that I can zoom in and out in Sketchup and then I can just select orbit and I can I can oh that's quite nice actually I really enjoy how I can zoom in instantly and and then rotate at the same time that's that's a great feature actually this sliding thing is weird though I wanted to say hey it isn't it's day I think I have to take it off otherwise it's gonna like fall on the floor but if you can but oh you can also use it on the tee ball so you know that's fine too today we tried out illustrator and Sketchup and I found that the Sketchup presentation and process of drawing on it seemed pretty good it was more instantaneous larger I could see so much more of what I was doing instead of on a small laptop or even if I had a dual screen I really liked the size of the screen I like that you can move it I get 45-degree angle or straight up because then if someone has to come and collaborate with you at your desk or you need to show it a quick presentation it's instantaneous I do wish that it would go entirely flat sometimes just because the way that I draw with my arm and my hand it would feel a lot more natural I mean I actually thought this would be more than what she told me you said like 4k yeah I thought I would guess that this would be more than that actually but if it was less than that I think small offices would have these more and I also think universities would have it and that's a big deal because the architectural departments and universities really need the latest software and presentation and all of these different applications to you know prepare their students to go out into a very competitive or world of architecture you