Different line widths
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One thing I really miss in SU is different linewidths.
In plans to would be great if it was possible to have width 4 for heavy walls, and cuts, and the rest, funiture floors ect. in width 1.
I haven't found a way to do this. Does anyone know of a workaround ?
What I do now is fill the heavy walls width a color. An other way is to model in 3d and use cut sections, but sometime is faster only to draw in 2d.
Thanks
Jorgensen -
unfortunately I am not aware of a way to change this.
the only thing we can do is painting edges in different grayscale colours; that gets a bit towards line weights... (but it is of course not the same).
a very tedious workaround (which provides you with different line weights) is to export the different elements seperately, changing the thickness of the profiles in the styles editor. later you can merge all the images to one final drawing (in photoshop for example).
there is maybe a third way by exporting a dxf-file and importing it into illustrator (where you, as far as I know, are able to change line weights). I have never worked with that app though, therefore can't give you any tips. but I think someone in this forum did use this way (can't remember who)
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uf, not a easy way
hopefully it will be possible in SU 7.0 -
There's a script called thickie ( or similar ) I think available on smustard, but I'm not sure. It can help you.
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well you can get at least something like this with coloured edges:
but the thickie script sounds interesting... if you can get your hands on it, could you give us a short review?
cheers,
Jakob
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I don't have the script but afaik it works in such a way that draws another line very close to what you want to display thicker and since all edges are 1 pixel thick, two edges are 2 pixel thick and from any distance (maybe expect for very close) they seem to merge into each other.
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I don't imagine that you will ever see different line weights in SketchUp itself, it's a modeller not a 2D CAD program. That's where Layout comes in....to keep the two functions separate. There is, indeed a Ruby script that draws in extra lines to apparently thicken them, but it does actually create extra geometry, it's not a line weight tool as normally understood.
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http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot
The script is called Thicklines.rb and it's under the Architecture heading. -
You can stack scenes with different geometry hidden in Layout, but that brings up its own problems.
If you are really only modeling in 2d you could move objects that you want a lighter line weight very far away and use depth cue setting.
And yes, exporting to Illustrator also works. With CS3 you even have ability to export and import dwg/dxf to scale.
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Thanks to everyone. It seems not so easy to do, so I just keep on useing colors to create differences in the drawing. Ultimate I use autocad, but I would just like to keep it in the same drawing.
I will have a look at Thicklines.rb.
I simply don't like Layout, to slow and to complicated (a fundamental thing like updating views/layouts is a pain). What is possible inside Layout, should be a intern part of SU, like model- / paperspace in AutoCad. But thats a nother story
I like the combination of SU and Indesign - but SU is a bit of a pain to print from, but I get hold of it now using PDF995
Thanks all.
Jorgensen
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