Scale Factor Plugin?
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Hello@All
could anybody guide me how i can insert a scale factor?
ok i build objects 1:1
how i can insert the scale like 1:160, 1:87 etc.
i would build models for real.
look here to understand what i search
is there a plugin to enter this ?
0k i could enter for 1:160 --> 0,00625
or 1:87 --> 0,011494251:87 go faster and this scale i can better hold in my head.
thank you
dean
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A quick way would be:
- draw a line 87 (cm, m, inch, ...) and
- use the tape measure tool to change the model scale for this line to 1 (cm, ...)
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You have a Pro licence, this is what Layout does - Insert your model and set the scale. Unless of course you need the model scaled for 3D printing?
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If you need your SketchUp models scaled down for 3D printing, I would do as Carsten suggests and use the yellow Tape Measure tool to do the resizing. You can either use a temporary line drawn in the model space or scale some known dimension.
I've done paper models of buildings for model railroads. Here's an example:
I unfolded the building in the lower left corner to get the image, below. I inserted that as a viewport into Layout which I scaled to suit my son's N-scale railroad. Then I made a PDF file and had it printed on some heavy card stock. This part is all more easily done in LayOut and then the model could be printed at any scale.
I added tabs to my final design although they don't show here.
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papercraft is cool... im not sure... i had seen a plugin here... like unfold.
i would love do have both a plugin for papercraft and 3d printing.
papercraft for lowcost or lowbudged and 3d printing for models on the Table.
@ cotty du bist ein scherzkeks
--cotty youre a joker.a plugin will be faster and my deadline is not a problem than.
i have never print in 2d and 3d. is the result really acceptable?
@ dave. a model railroad was ever i big wish for me as a kid. however we have had only a sleepingroom and livingroom. the coal cellar was to small and dusty and the garret open for all renter.
i play sometimes with railsimulator on PC you see my dream is now reality...vitual reality 
edit: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=27528&hilit=papercraft#p238568
regards dean
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Cotty is not joking with you.
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Indeed! Cotty is not joking with you. And his method with the Tape Measure tool would be every bit as fast as a plugin. Learn what the native tools can do before you ask for plugins to do the same thing.
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cotty you are my hero..that works... i had never known this function.
@dave you are right.
thanks at all
and thanks to dave, Don't trouble your head about it.
dean
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