Views, Sections, Layers, Visibility.

[sancho77]

Hello there!
My background is furniture design, woodwork.
I love Sketchup ands its simplicity.
However - Layout could improved.
This could by a long shot - but I'll try anyway.
I like the way Solidworks deals with paper space(drawings).
The section view could be created in Layout by simply drawing a line on "Master view".
Also what is visible or not visible(parts,layers) could by controlled from Layout. Some sort of "outliner" in Layout for each view. Also Hatching could be controlled in Layout. Hatch style by layer or similar.
Also each view would have a customisable tag/description(name,scale, etc)that would be linked with view properties.
And dimensions need to stay where they where attached.
I use SKALP plugin at this moment and after changes in model those dimensions are all over the place.

This the pain I'm having at the moment - going back and forward from Sketchup to layout and back again. Updating views in Sketchup, make shore Skalp is up to date - then back to layout . Then I have to find what dimensions I need replace or delete. In some projects I could have 10 + A3 pages - and errors are happening.

Thanks