Gnrl problems while developing 3D

[swati22]

Hey I have a few questions here..

1. Can a model be exported in certain scale(eg. 1:500) as a png, eps file directly from SketchUp without using layout?
2. Is there a way to set line weights depending on layers? If not, how can I find out the exact camera angle in an axo view (using plugIn by TIG) so that I can set the same in CAD, import Plan as seen in axo view and club it up with exported file of 3d model in axo from skp?
3. I came across a post on how to develop dashed lines in layout but am unable to find the same now. It involved overlapping of scenes and switching on or off the desired layers. Unable to find the option of dashed lines in layout, could only change line types of the containing frame, not model.
4. Is there a style available where one can see only Mass/Void - basic outline of a building, switching off edges and putting the profiles on, doesn't deliver satisfactory results.

I'll be glad if any of these problems can be sorted out
Thanks!

[jsteacy]

1. no, crummy I know but no there isn't. I wonder if a plugin could do that but that's a different forum
2. first part no, no sure I get the second part of the question, there are a couple of plugins that offer more specific control of info on the camera, this is one http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=21047. The plugin CADup http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=35096 will create a series of 2d drawings from your model if that's what you are after.
3. Which version of layout do you have? v2 and v3 have dashed line options under the Shape Style dialog (for lines drawn in layout, v3 can control the scale of the dashes which is key. If you put the model in vector mode you can explode it and alter the line work of the model but it is no longer referenced to the model but you could overlap it with other instance of the model that is still referenced. I'm not sure about the method you are alluding but another option is to put the model in vector mode and to a scale, then export a pdf, import it into illustrator and everything comes in nicely so can use layout to get sketchup models into illustrator.
4. There is a plugin that will replace a complex shape with a basic shape(proxy or placeholder), but I haven't tried it but the author suggests you can go back and forth between them in the menu. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=179977#p179977. There might be another version out there as well.

Hope this helps