View plugin

[giorgio78]

Anyone know for any plugin that would give me some new views appart from those six 'houses' that already exists in SketchUp?

Thanks

[Aerilius]

The answer depends mostly on what views you want/need.
There are some plugins:
[Plugin] Axo + Iso View v1.2 20101117
[Plugin] (TIG) Rotate Plan View v1.1 20110316
[Plugin] Extended Standard Views v1.1 - UPDATED
[Plugin] Extended Standard Views - ArchTools-version!

[mitcorb]

Could setting up named scenes work? Or too cumbersome?

[Jean Lemire]

Hi Giorgio, hi folks.

Have you discovered the Orbit Tool?

With this tool and the Pan Tooland the Zoom Tool, you can have an infinite number of views for your model.

As written by Mitcorb, you can use scene to remember a particuar setting, including a view.

Scenes can be named using the Scene Manager. For example, if you are designing a house, you can have scenes named like that: "Looking at second floor bedroom window from end of driveway" or South-east view from the top of the tree in the backyard", etc, etc.

Just ideas.

[Aerilius]

And you can have these views in every file if you create these scenes once in an empty the file and do File → Save as Template .

[TIG]

If you building is not orthogonal [i.e. not all at right angles] and you want to look straight at a facade you can also select a face in the model that's on that facade and use the right-click context-menu 'Align View'; the camera is now looking directly at that face... do not orbit, only zoom or pan to set the view as desired, and then save as to a new Scene-tab. Then clicking that the tab should take you back to that view, even if you have moved your view point whilst modeling...

[giorgio78]

Still don't know how to achieve that all of my sketches have the same view (from the same angle and same distance) as I have for example 10 same roof constructions with different roofing materials on (all of the roofing materials are groups and not only textures). All of the roofs are also saved from the different viewing angle and distance. Is it possible that when I open each roof file, every single roof is positioned the same? I'm sorry if I gave a bad explenation of my problem.
How to open already existing file with the user prepaired template? Is there only INPORT command that I can use (it takes so long to import files of about 50Mb)?

[rv1974]

1. create the roof objects with different mats applied in the same file.
2. set up views and save them as scenes.
3. use 'add hidden layer' ruby: create set of hidden layers (according to the number of mats)
4. assign those layers to corresponding roofs.
5. tweak the roofs layers visibility and update\add your scenes.