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    • GaieusG Offline
      Gaieus
      last edited by

      Displaying hidden lines is a style feature. When you turn hidden lines on, open your style panel, go to "In model", select the style you are using and update it.

      NOW send the file to LayOut (or if you have already sent it there, update the skp file inside LO).

      Have a look at the LO document below. It has two pages where I inserted the same skp model. On page 1, one of the scenes of the SU model is displayed and in this scene, the active style does not display hidden lines. On page one, the same model but with another scene where the active style is set to display the hidden lines.


      Hidden lines.layout

      Gai...

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      • T Offline
        tvcasualty
        last edited by

        Thanks but that's not quite what I'm after...
        This is what Layout / Sketchup needs to do:
        std iso 3 view...
        I want to show this in Layout, only I'd like it to show as vectors (not as raster), and if it's not too much more to ask, I'd like that to export as a dxf.

        Note, it should also work for holes, and not just square cut outs (if I drew a hole, the hidden line does not show up as an edge).

        Thanks again for your response though.

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        • GaieusG Offline
          Gaieus
          last edited by

          If you turn your inserted SU model to vector or hybrid rendering mode than right click and explode it, you can assign any kind of line weights, colours or styles to the individual edges.

          Also (with LO 3 now) you can export it to dwg/dxf.

          What you showed, how would be achieved in SU?

          Gai...

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          • B Offline
            bjanzen
            last edited by

            So if your style has back edges turned on in SketchUp, you should see those in LayOut. Is that not working for you? If you don't have LO3, does changing face style to X-ray work for you in 2.1? It does for me.

            b

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            • W Offline
              walzo
              last edited by

              I'm guessing the issue here is that Layout doesn't display hidden lines in vector mode (I wish it did!). Correct Gaieus? Ideally one wouldn't have to explode a model, thereby losing the capacity to remodel it in Sketchup.

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                Not in vector mode but in hybrid mode it does (where your edges are vectors but your textures are raster). Probably the most resource hungry mode however.


                Tímárház.png


                Tímárház_1.png

                Gai...

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                • bmikeB Offline
                  bmike
                  last edited by

                  @gaieus said:

                  Not in vector mode but in hybrid mode it does (where your edges are vectors but your textures are raster). Probably the most resource hungry mode however.

                  Not seeing this in hybrid, was really hoping for it on a complex project...
                  Will have to settle for vector, I guess.

                  mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
                    last edited by

                    Looks like Back Edges will only display in Raster mode.

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      Above, my rendering was in hybrid. Note that back edges is a face style actually so you cannot expect it to work in vector mode but in hybrid mode they should appear (however not as vector edges but as a raster effect on the face itself as far as I can tell or at least imagine).

                      Gai...

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
                        last edited by

                        I don't see back edges in Hybrid. Here's what I get.

                        Original SU image with style updated:


                        http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/5709861352_611f5b9c6b.jpg

                        LO Raster render:


                        http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/5709297161_9994d5eba2_z.jpg

                        LO Hybrid render:


                        http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2061/5709297299_4b978f7b43_z.jpg

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                        • bmikeB Offline
                          bmike
                          last edited by

                          @dave r said:

                          I don't see back edges in Hybrid. Here's what I get.

                          Original SU image with style updated:


                          http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/5709861352_611f5b9c6b.jpg

                          LO Raster render:


                          http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/5709297161_9994d5eba2_z.jpg

                          LO Hybrid render:


                          http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2061/5709297299_4b978f7b43_z.jpg

                          Same here. I even exported to PDF, to make sure I wasn't missing something.
                          And set display of models to 'high'. No dice.

                          mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                          • J Offline
                            jhauswirth
                            last edited by

                            LO doesn't support the new hiddenline drawing in hybrid or vector.
                            It will only show them in raster. In hybrid mode it first renders
                            everything except edges (it turns off ALL edges) and then it
                            draws all visible edges as vector on top of the raster image.

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                            • bmikeB Offline
                              bmike
                              last edited by

                              @jhauswirth said:

                              LO doesn't support the new hiddenline drawing in hybrid or vector.
                              It will only show them in raster. In hybrid mode it first renders
                              everything except edges (it turns off ALL edges) and then it
                              draws all visible edges as vector on top of the raster image.

                              Would be great to have it available in hybrid... but in my limited testing it would need some finesse on the software side.

                              I thought it might work to do 2 viewports, one in raster, another on top in vector, but I can't seem to get that to work - although I did think it possible to have 2 or more windows stacked atop one another with transparent backgrounds...

                              mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                              • Dave RD Offline
                                Dave R
                                last edited by

                                Well, you could do it with overlapping scenes. See the attached PDF. I made two scenes, one in simple Hidden Line style and the other with Back Edges turned on. I overlapped the two scenes in LO with them on separate layers. The Hidden Line view is rendered as Vector and the Back Edges scene in Raster.

                                To be honest, though. I don't see much point in doing this. The quality of the result isn't very good.


                                back edges test.pdf

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                                • bmikeB Offline
                                  bmike
                                  last edited by

                                  @dave r said:

                                  Well, you could do it with overlapping scenes. See the attached PDF. I made two scenes, one in simple Hidden Line style and the other with Back Edges turned on. I overlapped the two scenes in LO with them on separate layers. The Hidden Line view is rendered as Vector and the Back Edges scene in Raster.

                                  To be honest, though. I don't see much point in doing this. The quality of the result isn't very good.

                                  Just figured that out by doing a similar test with something I'm working on. Only time it would make sense for me would be for complex joinery / shop drawings...

                                  mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R
                                    last edited by

                                    Out of curiosity, wouldn't just the Raster-rendered image work for that? Or, you could make a high res image export from SU and insert the image into LO. Of course you'd lose the automatic update if you edit the model but for a few images it might not be so bad.

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                                    • bmikeB Offline
                                      bmike
                                      last edited by

                                      @dave r said:

                                      Out of curiosity, wouldn't just the Raster-rendered image work for that? Or, you could make a high res image export from SU and insert the image into LO. Of course you'd lose the automatic update if you edit the model but for a few images it might not be so bad.

                                      I guess the raster would be fine. But I have no idea in actual practice. I've only used vector for line heavy work, and hybrid for anything with color and shadows...

                                      I've sent a few pages off to plot with the overlay and with just the raster. We'll see how they plot out.

                                      mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                                      • GaieusG Offline
                                        Gaieus
                                        last edited by

                                        @jhauswirth said:

                                        LO doesn't support the new hiddenline drawing in hybrid or vector.
                                        It will only show them in raster. In hybrid mode it first renders
                                        everything except edges (it turns off ALL edges) and then it
                                        draws all visible edges as vector on top of the raster image.

                                        😳
                                        I may have remembered my (old) post above wrong then, sorry.

                                        Gai...

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                                        • bmikeB Offline
                                          bmike
                                          last edited by

                                          Nice thing about backedges, even if they don't render in hybrid or vector - is that they do allow you to snap when section cutting through a model...

                                          mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                                          • B Offline
                                            bertsminky
                                            last edited by

                                            I did the two SU Scenes onto two LO layers and at first it showed perfectly well then after going back to it one of the scenes had become a solid form - ie you couldnt see through it to the other scene/layer behind ?
                                            Any idea on why this would happen cos it had me scratching my head for a while - in the end i drew a clipping mask but for the backedges example above this wouldnt be suitable.

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