{"id":2572,"date":"2015-03-01T10:36:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T10:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/portusproject\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2015-03-01T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T10:36:44","slug":"build-your-own-portus-in-sketch-up-and-share-it-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2015\/03\/01\/build-your-own-portus-in-sketch-up-and-share-it-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Build your own Portus in Sketch Up and share it with us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following upon last&#8217;s year discussions initiated on Twitter via #buildyourownportus and in the course and summarised in a post by Matthew Tyler-Jones on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/meme%20technology.org\/2014\/06\/14\/the-Portus-mooc-and-modelling\">The Portus MOOC and modelling<\/a>&#8220;, I have found extremely interesting how many people wanted to build their own Portus model and experience modelling as interpretative process.<\/p>\n<p>Graeme covered, in his post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mooc.southampton.ac.uk\/Portus\/2014\/06\/24\/build-portus\">Build your own Portus<\/a>&#8221; and extensively during the MOOC, some of the techniques used to give a sense of the site and how the modelling helps archaeologists.<\/p>\n<p>One of the aspects about modelling that facinates me the most, which I think it&#8217;s the next natural step, is how informations are shared and re-used. Normally, once a model has been created it&#8217;s circulated to experts for comments. In the last couple of years I have been looking closely to the visualisation created by Grant Cox (via <a href=\"http:\/\/artasmedia.com\/\">ArtasMedia<\/a>) and how he communicate with the rest of the team. Modelling a particular building in 3d, not only helps in the interpretative process, but creates a base that can be easily shared and re-used and where changes can be tracked down following the different versions.<\/p>\n<p>Grant&#8217;s use a quite sofisticate software, 3ds\u00a0Max, but there are free softwares, like Google Sketch up, that allows users to hcreate and share their own models online. I also think Sketch Up is ideal as it work across different platforms (as well as on tablets and phones) and it&#8217;s really user-friendly. You might want to try to create your own 3d model of the Grandi Magazzini and share it with us! I have created a step-by-step document that will guide you through the process (from how to download the software to how to share the model with us) and I have also created a basic sketch up file, which already contains all relevant information from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/files\/2014\/06\/MagazziniModellingHelpSheet.pdf\">Modelling Help Sheet<\/a>, that you can use to start your model. Have a look to the guidelines and download the Sketch up file on the course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/Portus-2\/steps\/22128\/progress\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following upon last&rsquo;s year discussions initiated on Twitter via #buildyourownportus and in the course and summarised in a post by Matthew Tyler-Jones on &ldquo;The Portus MOOC and modelling&ldquo;, I have found extremely interesting how many people wanted to build their own Portus model and experience modelling as interpretative process. Graeme covered, in his post on &ldquo;Build your own Portus&rdquo; and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,3,21,22],"tags":[648,652],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrg","category-archaeological-science-and-computing","category-blog","category-classical-and-historical-archaeology","category-maritime-archaeology","tag-portus-2","tag-portus-project","column","threecol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Build your own Portus in Sketch Up and share it with us - Archaeology Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2015\/03\/01\/build-your-own-portus-in-sketch-up-and-share-it-with-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Build your own Portus in Sketch Up and share it with us - Archaeology Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following upon last&rsquo;s year discussions initiated on Twitter via #buildyourownportus and in the course and summarised in a post by Matthew Tyler-Jones on &ldquo;The Portus MOOC and modelling&ldquo;, I have found extremely interesting how many people wanted to build their own Portus model and experience modelling as interpretative process. 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