Registering views in SketchUp
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Discussing in another thread the value of SU-LO. I have to admit there's a level of separation and complexity working between the two. I just came up with a problem where I apparently accidently moved and saved an ortho view in SU that ruins the alignment with all the work I added in LO.
If somehow the original location (center) of view were associated or registered with the model entities (or one could find the center of view on some model entity), I could get the view back to where it was. This important relationship is just floating, done "by eyeballing". It would be nice if a camera description can be taken from an old file and applied to the scene.
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Peter, would it work to take the camera position from the old SU file and apply it to the new one? I believe there's a plugin that will copy scene/camera settings from one file and import them to a different file.
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That would work--even if the scene had to be recreated.
I already fixed this situation but it made me think how tenuous this could be. In this case I am not dependent on exact dimensioning to the objects, just graphics and notes. So I just kept shifting (panning) the SU scene little by little and checking it in LO, over and over.
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I was wondering about another option. I wonder when the embedded version of the SKP file gets updated. If that didn't occur until you save the LO file, you could pry out a copy of it which at the worst would set you back to the last time it was saved. And then if you'd made a bunch of model edits, you could copy the camera location from that file and apply it to the old file.
When I create 2D ortho views, I use Zoom Extents or Zoom Selection so it would be easy to fix the scene if I inadvertently move the camera. then I resize the viewport if it shows more than I want it to show. Of course I make sure I never have scenes listed as modified in LO, too. Could something like that work for you?
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I also make a set zoom extents for all views in my setup. And I usually have to make an arbitrary plane that encompasses the entire building regardless of view, where it's always the same width that is longer than a height.
But Dave's copy camera settings suggestion would work. as would copying the entire model out and into a good file.
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To copy the camera position from an embedded SU file within the LO file? Perhaps. I also have multiple incremental backups to look at if the camera copy is an option.
I think zoom extents might work. Though may have to use Kris's method. I have views of different buildings for example, while hiding the other, and the "extents" of things in the drawing could change. Some method that is not so complicated that I skip it all the time.
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No, from a previous version of the SKP.
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@krisidious said:
No, from a previous version of the SKP.
No Kris, I was referring to the SKP file embedded in the LO file. Peter understood that right.
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