more about my workflow
Sure, so, I am currently using it in 2 similar contexts, first is with client work where I’m helping a friend build out his garage/workshop/youtube studio. I rebuilt the garage fairly accurately at scale then we used arkio in the space itself so that we can see what the finished studio will look and feel like. It’s pretty cool to turn pass through on and off and see the furniture in place. I built it in fusion so that when we have everything squared away I can go straight into building the furniture in the same place, down to the jointery and fasteners, and building blue prints. Arkio is letting us feel out the space as far as how he workflow in the space will work (where to put what machine, how wood will pass through the space), but also how it will look on camera, so determining if things are too big or too small.
What I think would be great features for this sort of thing are:
-being able to set the focal length of the camera tool, selfishly so that I could test how things look on camera in the space, but I also think that would be useful to create more creative photos
-a better snapping function on imported objects, I’d really like to be able to move furniture around the space more accurately, maybe this is just a skill issue on my part though.
- maybe a different scale option for the work space? Because what I’m building is so comparitively small the shadow map resolution is super bad. But if there was a separate workspace for the kind of thing I’m doing you’d be able to bump it up so it would look decent at room scale.
My other context is as an industrial design professor (Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico) and I’m using it in the classroom with my students. We’re building a mobile computer truck/van in groups of 3 or 4. I basically have the same issues, but in this case I think having a free/really cheap edu license for pro would be great. There’s the 20 minute meeting anxiety, but on the other hand that doesn’t seem to work, as the meeting just rolls over to 20 after it counts down to 0, so idk.
I’d be happy to tell you anything else, or talk on zoom if you have questions, just email me.