Line Weight Methodology
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I am struggling to find the best way to deal with line weights. Is there a way to assign line weights in Sketchup by group or layer that translate to Layout? If there is any efficient method to get proper line weight beside redrawing over scenes in Layout, I would be grateful for some tips.
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You should have multiple scenes and use a combination of them in Layout.
1 - Sketchup styles allow you to manage lines thickness where regular lines are always 1 and all the other lines can be multiples of 1.
2 - In sketchup if you set your viewport's background to transparent you can overlay scenes with different styles;
3 - Also in Layout you can set a global scale to the lines displayed in the viewport. So a scene that has lines at 1 and profiles at 6 will be able to display lines at .1 and profiles at .6
This is all controlled with sketchup styles, wich you should customize and save in model and in libraries for later use, and on the Model tray inside LO.
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Thank you for that explanation. I follow all except point #3. What is a profile?
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If you go to Window > Styles > Edit > Edges (First cube on edit) you'll be able to turn on profiles. You'll immediately see the effect.
It's the way Sketchup generates the contour line of the objects you see on screen. It's one of the features that makes a particular style render slowly, but that enhances graphical quality. If you make it thicker you can have nice looking presentations, if you make it 1 you'll have accurate representations of volumes. Most of the times you can only see the side lines of a vertical cilinder or cone if you have profiles turned on.
You can also turn it on on View > Edge Styles > Profiles (but with the above process you can control it's line weight)
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Thank you so much, very helpful.
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Also,for more control, try using grey for some lines in skp. Just make sure that the style you use has lines set to by material and try painting faces, instead of groups/components.
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