Please make your brief introduction to our readers.

Greetings everybody and thanks for letting me introduce myself.

I am Suresh Tamang, Managing Director of Chitwan Design Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Nepal. I have had my hands on Autocad, Sketchup and vray and we have been providing construction designing, surveying, landscape, interior design with a team of sixteen staffs on five branches.

When did you first discover sketchup?

When I was surfing across internet for 3d rendering platform, sketchup’s easy and intuitive (WYSIWYG) dashboard/ interface appealed to me and my working style. And I have been using Sketchup since version 7.0.

How do you apply sketchup in your professional work?

Well, when clients come up with huge projects like land plotting, agricultural farmland plotting etc, then we estimate that they can bear extra charges of 3d rendering and we feel that it would be tempting for them as well to have a 3d preview of the project they are groping in, beforehand. That’s when we convinced them for sketchup model. We make all sketchup 3d model of the project, even prepare a video file by tracking the camera path inside the sketchup environment. It’s all supported inside Sketchup.

You have completed several projects with sketchup and among them which was most challenging & why?

To me, each project is a challenge. But to sort out, the one I did for Bank was a bit more challenging as you have to design it with the functionality of any corporate building, yet look sleek in looks but play inside limited ground coverage. So, I would name that.

How sketchup for vray facilitates architectural visualization process?

A lot. Last time, my office staffs were opening the folder of my sketchup+ vray project outfiles screenshot and they were arguing over each other if it was camera capture of real things or processed file. Then one showed my patent designer logo over there. What I mean to say is it has helped a lot. You can’t really distinct out its output from reality.

Sketchup 2015 is just launched. How do you evaluate this latest version?

I didn't find much difference in Sketchup 14 and 15. But I had expected, Sketchup Guys would have fixed the issue of Sketchup Program File size to have more space to match up with the large MB project files, it processes.

What is the best program for 3d rendering work?

To me 3d Max, but sketchup is easy and fast presentation.

What advice do you have for newbie 3d modelers?

Well, there are a lot parallel platform for 3d rendering: sketchup, autocad 3d itself, 3d max etc. But do not lose your time and energy switching platform every now and there. Observe each platform individually, decide whose dashboard/ interface appeals to you and your working style and stick to it, and hey, learn from this magazine, even youtube and much more online site.

What features should be included in sketchup for better performance?

I can’t think of any suggestion right now.

Give us suggestions to make our magazine more popular to the worldwide sketchup communities.

The magazine is already more popular and I myself is its fan. However, if easy-to-follow vray, sketchup tutorials from community experts and questionnaire section based on needs of amateurs and professionals, would be included in the magazine in coming days, then I think it would be more appealing and break more grounds.