One of the real un-intended problems with Sketchup is how it now dominates my daily work-flow. I'm fortunate to now make a living creating stuff, presenting stuff, and building stuff. Nothing in 26 years has had anything close to the impact of on our work and more specifically, me. Sketchup literally has changed the process of how we work, the presentations, and the products we create. Never did I relise the true implications of adding this to the firms list of programs. I had ordered it through Architectural Record (I think) It was a quirky little program that seemed like a good fit for the planning work we were doing. My desktop changed dramatically the day the CD showed up, Sketchup 1.3. I've been using Sketchup for many years, well before Googles introduction. I also wish Sketchup and layout developers would consider adding true 2D documentation abilities. I thought it might be worth weighing in on this conversation. I'm new to the forums here, its been a treat to see all the good work.
I notice that sometime ACAD users create huge pdf files, others can make small ones. I find it seems OK with my pdf 24 x36 sheets, but my file (KB) sizes are small, even with images in them. How well Layout will handle such imports in peformance, I do not know. Two things: have you tried placing the CAD image in Layout instead? Have you selected "Use maximum texture size" in SU (SU / Preferences / OpenGL) ? The first seems to lose no quality while the second is still limited in resolution for large images. I would like to be able to import a higher resolution pdf or jpg as an image but Sketchup seems to reduce the quality. I find this makes it possible to put some of the time I had invested in autocad available in the sketchup model without doing an import of the autocad model with all of the problems that entails with faces etc. Johntwiname wrote: I have been using images of floor plans with extra detail and using them as an imported image. At least I hope this is an original idea or I will feel real stupid the URL. It too is scalable.Īfter digesting every word in this forum topic it is time to give back to you all. For the arc I just drew an arc, exploded it, made a component of it, and hid every other segment in edit mode. Then make a component of it and it is scalable. For those who want to fine tune the process of creating dashed lines and get them to the right look for their projects here is the info: painful as it is, for a straight line you must draw a set of equal lines with equal spaces between (or any regular variation, I think mine were 1/4" each) and - here is the key - add a small circle to one end. For the dashed line and arc just scale them to the drawing, edit component and get rid of the very stretched circle. I have just uploaded to Google Warehouse my set of Electrical symbols and structural symbols including the Elusive DASHED LINE! To use the electrical symbols just open each component and hide the version you do not want. It took a couple of hours working with the digger to convince him that by digging to my lines he would produce a useful hole in the ground but eventually it worked and the resulting hole will soon get its footings. I drew up 6 triangles and then used LO to produce a sheet with 6 views, each one adding a new triangle to the one fixed line we had available. My finished set didn't fit very precisely around the house but did always include every part. So I did some quick SU work to fit a set of triangles around the footing perimeters anyone with a couple of tapes can lay out triangles. I didn't have any serious surveying equipment available so I couldn't do a typical transit layout, taking reference points and marking out angles etc. I'm actually building the house (see above posting.php?mode=reply&f=12&t=15911#pr234269) right now and during the foundation excavation I had some trouble explaining to the operator where he needed to dig and how deep. Here's a use of LO& SU construction drawings that I hadn't expected.