@mattw0711 said:

Awesome, thanks for the quick reply. In actuality, you are doing the exact same thing that the plugin you referred me to does, just a different path to get there.

Totally makes sense, thanks again!

Then I remember why I'm not using it... She won't mind, I use a couple of her plugins daily...

Then do as you please dear Sir!

@kyeric said:

Hello!

I have been reflecting lately (as I have a lot since turning 40) on the idea of architecture as design and implementation. I have been using SketchUp for about 13(!) years in some form or fashion and in my growth as a practicing architect and designer I have always fallen back on the trusty, intuitive tools that SketchUp has to offer. My nature is to continue to investigate many a new whiz-bang technology that preaches BIM capability, but I continually find those types of methods too cumbersome and...well, let's face it: not fun.

As I have circled back around again to a more concise SketchUp and LayOut lifestyle thanks heavily in part to Nick Sonder, Mike Donley and Mike Brightman (you all rock!) I am wanting to ask not what would be the next great feature release of SketchUp and LayOut, but what experience does this community have with moving away from the traditional CAD plans/elevations/sections/details and into a more inclusive 3D representation of a design?

I still think this is such an interesting subject as plans and sections tend to rely heavily on being diagrammatic and representative, where elevations land more on becoming pictorial. Utilizing some of the methods of Nick and Mike in SketchUp and LayOut, I have found that making all of the 3D information becomes bogged back down in translation back into a more standard graphic standard format. I am hoping to hear some of this community's experience dealing with breaking away form an architect's conception of graphic standards to how an owner or contractor relate directly to visual communication in 3D? How do you all make a new standard?

No wrong answers here, just appreciation of not only this wonderful software, but the users that make it sing.

Cheers!

😎 👍
interesting sir,

i find su/lo good,fast,exactly fun and doing great for my job. been 6 years riding with skp/lo to reach the project completion. i see it not braking away from architecture, rather engineering graphics standard while it is adopted and acceptable by the concerned trades and professions, owner and contractors alike, with some blocking issues,
i have to create and export another raw 2d plans exerpted from the 3d model for the allied proffesion use, more exactly ,structural designer, plumbing, elec engr. so on.to do their thing using their beloved 2d software.

cumbersome sir, yes it is but it can do the job. but when u master the workflow. it gets better and better, and faster.

interoperation is the big thing to conquer in there. the call for the software developer integrate some of it capability to work together, and make it faster,

i make new standards by pursuing this creative endeavor and sharing and encouraging others the expirience and benifits of this new technical instruments of society development.

It happened to me too. Sometimes you're lucky and after reopening Layout you have a recent file, sometimes just nothing and you lose hours of work.

I solved it adding few lines to my autohotkey script, it generates a loop that autosaves every 2 minutes.

where 120000 is the time in milliseconds.

OK. Now it shows up.

This is an issue with your graphics card. Quit LayOut, open SketchUp, go to window>Preferences>OpenGL, and disable Hardware Acceleration. Then try opening LO again and re-rendering the viewports.

Very likely this will fix the problem. If it does, it also indicates that the GPU isn't supporting OpenGL properly. You can check for and install driver updates for your GPU which might help. It depends on the card.

You can select the desired paper size in File>Document Setup>Paper. A2 is list in the drop down near the top of the list. If you're modifying an existing template that shows the grid lines, the grid lines will still be displayed with the same spacing. You can go to the Grids page and make changes to the grid spacing, color and whether or not the grid will be printed.

While you're in the Paper window, you can adjust margins and other details, too.

Yep,

I'm waiting for it 😉 ...
let(s have a look here
it's about Sketchup pro 2016 and Layou C API
Using the LayOut C API in a SketchUp Extension
"The LayOut C API is included in the SketchUp application, meaning developers may utilize the LayOut C API from within their SketchUp extension without being required to include it in their extension. For an example of how to use the LayOut C API from within a SketchUp extension, see the RubyExampleCreateLayOut sample."

source :
http://extensions.sketchup.com/developer_center/layout_c_api/layout/index.html

another idea to solve my problem ?
Thx Frederik for your reply
David

You can only search In Model using the Outliner.

Local searching is not possible. But a really nice idea.

Option to ensure you get it correct is to draw a line over the SU model and rotate it with "snap to object" on! I do this as a matter of course as it quicker than trying to find the right inference.

a few options:

Understanding the (3) different modes for displaying the model in LO, and trying to avoid any jaggies when printing, none of the three modes are complete. In Hybrid mode, where we want clean lines and full texture, materials print, any lines inside the model, say an interior wall seen through a transparent window material, will loose all its lines and look like a washed out "raster" mode ...why does LO do this? We know (and accept) the limitations of the drawing default styles and non-realistic rendering...but why in Hybrid mode, where we look for clean lines and full materials display (print), does LO do only some lines while eliminating others all together? Anyone got a a clue why or how to avoid this...I'm about to abandon SU & LO after ten years on this oversight alone.

Ahh... Yes. I remember there have been suggestions for exporting from SU that way. I rarely ever need to export PDFs from SU because I get better and more controllable results doing it from LO anyway.

Well, you're on the right track now anyway.

Thanks for the help

I hadn't looked at this before, myself. I guess my sketching in LO is just that. Not used for precise work. I kept experimenting to see if there was some trick. As Dave says in the last comment, as way to change the handle of the widget--if indeed we have to continue to use the widget in the future... I imagined using a modifier key that would "free" the rotation arm to be realigned.

Other notes. I don't highlighting mentioned in this thread. It is so light on my computer I often can't tell if it's really there.

I guess you have to measure the angle then do the move by entering it. This is not that easy, given the odd ways LayOut does things, but I guess you can learn to avoid the pitfalls.

I am doing something similar.

Please, sketchup team, let the items dragging from the Scrapbook KEEP THEIR LAYER. It is really labor and time wasting every time I have to choose a layer before or after I drag something from the Scrapbook.

@john2 said:

Does anyone know how to control the dpi resolution by entering numbers (e.g. 270 dpi, 250 dpi, 200 dpi) when exporting jpegs and hybrids from layout?

Once you set the save location and file name for the exports, you'll get a window that gives you the settable options.
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@ryanmas said:

Thanks for the tips. That was the issue I was concerned about, dark textures and colors being printed. Even on small SD sets the "rehatching" of revisions is just a ridiculous method of working.

I'll just stick with textures in SU.

One option might be to use a B&W lined texture in your model! Just flip the coloured texture out with the lined texture and flip it back in for other shots. I know it's a workaround but certainly a quick one!

Just make sure both textures match in scale and proportion.

Thanks again, Ill give that a try

@woodarc said:

All sorted now, Italic Tahoma is not available in Layout!!

More accurately, Tahoma doesn't have an italics version. There are only two versions of Tahoma, regular and bold. LayOut doesn't fake italics like some other applications do.

You might try purging the associated SketchUp file of unneeded stuff and see if that reduces the size enough. Or you can upload it to DropBox and provide the link.