Lego SU instructions

kostas_designer

Hi all,

i was surprised by discovering that my son's Lego toys has an instructions booklet made with...guess what??

pilou

Alex Jenyon

Are you sure it's Sketchup? I remember lego instructions looking like this in the early 90's, and always assumed they had some kind of in-house tool to produce them. That or someone really, really good with a technical pen...

kostas_designer

well, ofcourse i'm not sure about it, but it seemed so much like SU to me...
But maybe Pilou is right, i had never seen their application before, so it could be an ad hoc app.
Anyway, it could be possible to use SU for such a purpose.I do this for the company i'm working for..

pilou

or Leocad
Ldraw + MLcad

Jim

SketchUp would make great build sheets. I've experimented a little using plug-ins:

Little House, Dormer Build Sheet

This is a contact sheet built from images exported from A SketchUp model. The model is not mine and was importer using my SketchUp LDraw imp...

(sketchuptips.blogspot.com)

Lego (LDraw) Build Instructions in SketchUp

I've been playing around with Legos in SketchUp (again). I've added some cool features to the importer - like creating build steps on import...

(sketchuptips.blogspot.com)

Unfortunately, I don't think I still have the plug-ins on disk so they would need re-made from scratch.

The image below was automated using a script. It sorted the bricks by Z height, then exported an image for each level of the build. The images were them combined in a editor.

xrok1

i think if anyone has a copy it would be nice if they posted it and Jim could get a copy back. Maybe you could list all the plugins you lost. i'm sure there are copies hangin around.