Beams, columns for timber house

[chrissieandrich]

Hi there, we are converting upstairs in our french farmhouse and we have drawn the walls but cannot find anywhere that we can draw columns or beams. We did find a timber frame house in https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search ... Class=both but when exporting into sketchup we can import to a 3d model but we don't know where to import this to then draw beams etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated, we are stumped!!

[hansmex]

You can import model from Warehouse into SH3D.
You can use it "as is", but you can't change the model, except its overall size or texture(s).

[VeroniQ]

Personally, I do my own beams and columns with boxes and cylinders with wood textures on them. With the new 5.5 version, you can rotate the beams around 3 axes in order to design an attic.