Scaling Imported Drawings
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Hola yall, I have a question for all you uber smart Sketchup minded peoples.
I had some blueprints scanned to .tif's and I want to import them into SU to facilitate making a model and I was wondering if there's an 'easier' way of scaling the drawings. Currently all I'm doing is importing the tif and scaling it to an arbitrary scale so it's big enough to read, then finding a dimension, offsetting a line to that dimension and then, using the SU scale tool, I scale a little then adjust a little, scale a little then adjust a little, scale a little then adjust a little, until it's close enough.
It's not 'hard' per se, just a little time consuming. I was hoping someone could tell me a better more efficient way of scaling drawings.
Mucho thanks
Chris
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hi,
use the tape tool on your line, click both ends, then before doing anything else type your length and units, i.e. 13'7.4" or whatever... then hit return and if it's out of scale it will ask if you want to rescale whole model.
if your inside a group or component it will only change that.
if it's already correct it does nothing.
very useful...
john
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Additional tip regarding using the Tapemeasure tool rescale method - use a known dimension - e.g. between two grid lines, AND use a dimension that's as large as possible, to minimize errors in picking - i.e. prefer a distance of 20' over 2' - the potential 'one pixel' out over x10 the distance gives a lot more accurate result........
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Uber Fantastic! Thanks very very much!
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