SketchUp Wall Framing Case Study with Medeek Wall Extension 

I am an HVAC contractor but I can tell you that with a little practice you can generate visually stunning models of the clients project in a fairly reasonable amount of time with this suite. I guarantee my competition cannot make a better presentation for my clients. Even if I do not get the job? The client will remember me. That alone made it well worth the investment. The profit on one job a year can more than pay for the plug ins. Just a great suite and I look forward to more videos such as these and more refinement of the Medeek suite. Great job Matt and Nathaniel!

Let me say this straight out: what this guy is doing, on his own, is incredible. I’ve been doing very detailed, high end, high design residential work for some years with these extensions. You really have to put the time in and get familiar with how much is possible with them, but you will be rewarded. Matt, what you say about doors is actually already possible with windows. You can make a window just as you want, give it a name, and use it as a loadable window style. When you make a change, you simply regenerate all the windows of that style and they change for you. I have no doubt this will be extended in the future to other elements. Working with Nathaniel is like being involved in a sophisticated beta test: you have to learn each new thing he adds, as he adds it, but you are almost always happy you did. He is also totally approachable and answers questions. I have sent several feature requests and, with a little time and patience, there they are.

Thank-you for a very honest and candid assessment of the plugins abilities and usability. I can see there is certainly room for improvement and the need for certain tools that will make specific tasks easier to perform. I’ve already got some great ideas just watching this video the first time.

Thanks Matt. Always enjoy your infectious appreciation for all things SU. Keep up the good work!

Great work on this Matt, as always you give a presentation on relevant Industry subjects! Really good extension for sure!

Tbh I’m both impressed, and a little dismayed at this. It’s probably more to do with the fact that I haven’t been at sketchup in over a year. But when I did I (back then) I was modeling everything *everything* by hand. Using native tools within SU 2016. I had a ghetto laptop and I just pushed it in the directions I needed.but reallly, I spent an incredible amount of time on details which were either unseen or inefficient in terms of time investment… This model was for a client. A trial by fire (against time), and also learning SU at this point.. I spent a long time etching this one out. Creating 3 layers for the outside walls (cladding/plank, brick, internal(cavity), and internal plaster boards. This was based off the drawing. Amazing to see that this tool/suite can create struts as well, and seeing that library of windows is impressive. I suppose there is always a dichotomy: why re-invent the wheel? vs what can be learned by going the hard road first? making matters trickier: I used Eneroth’s tools, fantastic to see this was my option but, essentially I had created 3 bits of geometry (the walls) stacked back to back of each other, and used the tool to cut through all 3 at once (using the basic cutter of the window frame I had created). --it worked…. But the processing time was horrendous with my (then ageing dual-core CPU). On another model, I would set a process going, and it might have taken 45mins before a cut was complete. However, I know know that this was due to my working methods. I was nesting groups within groups within groups…. My approach needed to be more isolated. Anyway here is the model in the end… A block of flats. skfb.ly/oMAqA skfb.ly/oMAqA

I really am always impressed by the plug ins Nathaniel writes. I use all of them - except for the wall plug in. I use John Brock's for the simplicity of it. I think Nathaniel may try to put too much into his extensions, making them fairly complex to learn and understand. But I get a lot of work done with his foundation and truss plug ins. Nice review, Matt.

I have madeeks suite as well and it's great for what it is but yes you really need to know those architecture details to dial it all in and it's still complicated because architecture itself is complicated especially when you have to deal with the details. I suspect that because Wilkerson is still working through all the variables of architecture that the automation aspects haven't been factored nearly as much because he is still building out the primary tool of just giving anyone whatever functionality that may want/need. It seems to be the best architecture parametric tool for SKP and certainly at it's price point.

It'd be nice if you could select all doors and change the parameters of all of them at once.

Sounds like a Revit clone......