Another step on my newbie life. (technical drawings)
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Dear ALL,
Let's say I finished creating my "components" but instead of inserting them on the Google Earth I want to bring them to the real world. If I was working with paper I would have to print the technical drawings of each piece. Sadly I could not realize how can I simply achieve this with Sketchup or Layout.
Is there any "easy way" of doing it or should separate each piece, add measures, print the top, front, sides and perspective images?
I thank you in advance
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Hi there,
If I understand your "request" well, you'd like to make a (real, physical) paper model of your virtual SketchUp model? If so, have a look at Jim's (our Ruby Forum moderator's) plugin here.
There is also another advanced plugin, "Waybe" but it is still in Beta phase.
If you only want to have different print layouts of your model, see the SU Guide on printing.
Note that whatever is marked with the
image (meaning that it is a Pro function) on that particular (and some other) page(s) is now available in the Free version of SU6 as well (the SU Guide needs some serious update...) -
hi Gaieus,
First, thank you for your answer.
I've seen unfold plugin and also a video about the Waybe but that's not what I'm looking for.
My question is exactly regarding printing. I've seen the printing options but for what I understand, the Sketchup printing is essentialy a print of the current or other defined views requiring me to manually add all dimensions using the dimension tools, am I correct?
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Yes, you should add dimensions manually. You can, however, print to scale - when dimensions are not needed that much (since you can get the dimensions by measuring things on the printout). At least maybe not all dimensions are needed that much.
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