Share Example of Layout Construction Documents

sorgesu

Ok, I have a lot of nerve, but I am asking anyway.

In my SketchUp Classes I leave no more than half an hour to cover Layout.
There is a lot of "how to" to cover and there is no time to show how thorough a document can be created.
It would be great to have a sample document, already done, which we can explore a little in class, impress the folks and then allow them to take a copy home to spend time "deconstructing" it, as a learning exercise.

Does anyone here have one that they might be willing to share for such a purpose? Credit will be given of course.

Thanks so much.

dedmin

He-he! Why anybody here thinks we are all architects What kind of documentation - for furniture, mechanics. architecture and etc?

sorgesu

Construction Documents: Architecture, Engineering will do,
Not furniture so much as it doesn't show all the goo gaws and do hickeys.
Thanks.

Rich O Brien

I know what a do hickey is but goo gaw is new to me? We have doo dads and do hickeys. Along with thingamajigs and yokes. Sorry but I have nothing else to offer....

bmike

sorgesu, i'm tryng to PM you with some links, but I'm having some forum issues. i'll try again later...

i have a few JPG examples in the construction document thread - but i can get you a few full size PDF pages you can show...

Gaieus

I thin what Susan needs is a layout document, not anything already exported. So they can "play" with them in LO itself.

sorgesu

Thanks Csaba, yes that is exactly what I need, a layout document.

We would probably need to transfer it with "Transfer Big Files" or something like that.

Thank you in advance for all very kind offers.

Gaieus

I would give you one however I have never done anything in LO (beside "playing" with it and testing).

I am to produce my first ever LO document however but that will be in Hungarian. I know you would not have issues with reading it but your students may be bored with it.

Edson

susan,

I have just finished a set of drawings for a clubhouse and for a gate house. you can have them if you want. each set comes from a LO file that is about 70mb in size. you would have to send me an email address by PM so that I could send them to you via yousendit.

do not forget the language on them is portuguese, not english.

sorgesu

Edson, I can't thank you enough. You are so very generous in being willing to share such a large and laborious document. I very much appreciate it.
Translating the Portuguese will take me much less time than creating the Layout from Scratch. Thanks again. I will PM you an email address.

brookefox

Susan, You have seen John B's presentation of LO? It is the best tut I have been able to find and I think a very efficient and easily understood intro. Watching and doing while watching I think would be perhaps good for your purposes. If you have only 30 mins then it would seem you would want to start with a manageable doc with a limited number of playhandles.

Edson

@sorgesu said:

Edson, I can't thank you enough. You are so very generous in being willing to share such a large and laborious document. I very much appreciate it.
Translating the Portuguese will take me much less time than creating the Layout from Scratch. Thanks again. I will PM you an email address.

no problems, susan. it is a pleasure to be of help. I used those two small projects to get into LayOut. now I think I have a reasonable command of it.

I was very impressed by the quality of the jpg and pdf exports but cannot say the same about the dwg export.

sorgesu

Brooke, so sorry, I missed seeing your post with your suggestion. I am looking at the video as we speak. Thanks so much for pointing me to it.

tim

You're welcome to use my house design. Slightly out of date file but all there; as displayed by @Last at the AIA show etc.

http://rowledge.org//tim/building/AshlingRdLayoutForGoogle.zip

Edson

@sorgesu said:

Brooke, so sorry, I missed seeing your post with your suggestion. I am looking at the video as we speak. Thanks so much for pointing me to it.

susan,

I am afraid that video is related to LO 1 or 2, in which john says it was not intended to be used with construction drawings... in the 2010 basecamp keynote speech he speaks at some length about LO 3.

sorgesu

Tim, thank you so much. I grabbed it. I now have a few in my arsenal as Mike was also kind enough to forward his.

Tim, I see you are in Vancouver. I am teaching in Vancouver next week on Wednesday and Thursday, arriving Tuesday after teaching in Victoria. Would love to have coffee if you are available! Just PM me.

Brooke thanks for the video link. I cannot actually use the Video in the class as people are expecting me to do the training but the underlying layout document used in the Video is a good one and I've asked someone at Google to dig it up and allow me to use it.

Edsun, you are right, since I won't be using the video that statement won't be an issue.
I will however be using your layout documents as the main training example that we will go through piece by piece in the class.

Thank you all very much. You have all been very kind.

Gaieus

@sorgesu said:

I am teaching in Vancouver next week on Wednesday and Thursday, arriving Tuesday after teaching in Victoria. Would love to have coffee if you are available! Just PM me.

What happened to you, Susan?! Last time we were hanging out together, they were beers!

sorgesu

That must be your other Susan girlfriend!

I may just put some Bailey's in the coffee though, does that make me Csaba-worthy?

Gaieus

Ah, Susan, you know you are Csaba-worthy in any way!

I am also sorry that we had so little time together in BaseCamp this year (but yes, I know you were living elsewhere).

redinhawaii

I am on my third set, still not time efficient with it yet, but it is adaptive and flexible, in two of the projects I am having to make revisions, will see how that goes.....
aloha
red