A sign printed that large will certainly not be at 300dpi (the machine would never spool the print).

I know my sign guys work at artwork supplied at 1/5th or 1/10th printed size. If you can export a vector as PDF the size of the artwork will make no difference as long as it is proportionately correct.

The bigger issue you will have is that most artwork will be required as CYMK not RGB. Conversion to CYMK will need to be done post export.

Thank you SO MUCH, Dave...! 👍 😄
I will give it a try...

I sure hope that we will see an option to get a isometric grid in LO in the future...
I seem to have more and more requests for this...

My suggestion, trace the floor plan in layout and get a really nice crisp presentation. Will take half the time of mucking around and you wont get all the nightmare lines that result from exploding the vectored SU model. In fact I do all plans in Layout and then model up in SU!

Yup that could change...

@pbacot said:

And they probably had a lot of half size sets printed because no one likes lugging the huge sheets around.

Yeah I had a builder on the phone last week complaining that some drafty had given him plans at A1 size (big) as opposed to A3 (small) that he could then print in his own office and manage on site V's having to get them printed at a bureau and then need a table for handling on site!

The world has moved on from large plans, thats what associative dimensioning is all about!

Here's my method.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40%26amp;t=56847

Thanks. I think I am confusing two different issues on this thread. I'll look into it and probably post another thread. My goal now is smaller pdf output from LO.

Yeah wont work mate! Sadly!

I think I figured it out. Originally I had the section planes withing a group and now that I have placed new section planes I did them outside the group.

Dynamic sheet index (which might be exploded for custom editing and formatting.) Good idea!

Does the scene name for the viewport in LO show as modified?

Could you post an example LO file that shows this? No need to post the SKP file, too.

Fantastic! Thanks for the tip Dave, overall I really like the new functionality, and can see the time that was put into the upgrade of this feature. Knowing these subtle nuances is invaluable. Profile updated.

Frankly, I'm disappointed in the dimensioning quality of Layout. Sketchup, well, I can understand dimensions might be limited there. But Layout. Heck, that's its name! Next to 'layout' for technical drawings are dimensions and the inability to do basic rad/dia dimensioning is pitiful.

no problem.

@dave r said:

Notice you've got both the label text box and the arrow selected. The select initially as a group now in LO2015. That's why the grips are way out there like that.

There are some subtle nuances now with the Label tool. If you want to resize the text box and not modify the shape of the arrow, double click on the arrow. Then single click on the text box and you'll see the resizing handles where you expect them.

Got it! Thanks Dave.

When I export a PDF construction document set in Layout it will be like 200-300 megs. With the print to pdf I get like 20-60 megs. And yes, much faster. Glad I could be of help.

Still interested to know what was going on with that layer.

I'm not Mac and use layout infrequently so it's just a guess.

Check that you aren't on a locked layer when trying to access the files.

I got a lisp file from my friend,now I can handle whole dwg files at one step

Thanks Bruce, That did it.

I hate to throw another idea into the mix, especially as I don't have a specific way to do it in my head but,
Could you link the data file to an image in sketchup itself so you can use it in a viewport in Layout. There are various plugins that can make links to external files and there may be something that works better for you. God knows if it would be any use, but it was a thought.