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Google Sketch-Up. Also inches converter.
Feb. 28th, 2007 01:01 amThe other day I tried using Google's Sketch-Up to make an electronic version of my laborious pre-moving-in floor plan. I had to go find and re-code a stupid javascript to convert inches to feet + inches because all of the ones on the web convert to decimal feet. Which is dumb.
Does anyone know of a convenient inches-to-feet+inches converter they can point me at? I don't like plugging my snippet into W3School's try-it page every time I need one!
By the way, I now dislike Sketch-Up. It has nifty pre-defined components, but after over two hours I still don't have the hang of getting them to snap into alignment properly. I thought I had it figured out, but then it ceased working --- after making sense for a half-hour, which is the oddest part.
Also, they store the "wall" components two folders away from the "door" components, which caused me alot of pessimal navigation. Table-top Microwaves and Bathroom Sinks are in sibling folders, but NO, walls have to be a gratuitous extra level of folders up (and then back down).
The help is also annoying because instead of opening in its own little self-contained help-browser window, like the help documents of most installable windows apps, it goes and steals a browser tab -- which is annoying, because as I was saying, I was using my browser tab to convert inches to feet!
Does anyone know of a convenient inches-to-feet+inches converter they can point me at? I don't like plugging my snippet into W3School's try-it page every time I need one!
By the way, I now dislike Sketch-Up. It has nifty pre-defined components, but after over two hours I still don't have the hang of getting them to snap into alignment properly. I thought I had it figured out, but then it ceased working --- after making sense for a half-hour, which is the oddest part.
Also, they store the "wall" components two folders away from the "door" components, which caused me alot of pessimal navigation. Table-top Microwaves and Bathroom Sinks are in sibling folders, but NO, walls have to be a gratuitous extra level of folders up (and then back down).
The help is also annoying because instead of opening in its own little self-contained help-browser window, like the help documents of most installable windows apps, it goes and steals a browser tab -- which is annoying, because as I was saying, I was using my browser tab to convert inches to feet!
