Scale Factor Plugin?

deaneau

Hello@All

could anybody guide me how i can insert a scale factor?

ok i build objects 1:1

how i can insert the scale like 1:160, 1:87 etc.

i would build models for real.

look here to understand what i search

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HO_scale

is there a plugin to enter this ?

0k i could enter for 1:160 --> 0,00625
or 1:87 --> 0,01149425

1:87 go faster and this scale i can better hold in my head.

thank you

dean

cotty

A quick way would be:

draw a line 87 (cm, m, inch, ...) and
use the tape measure tool to change the model scale for this line to 1 (cm, ...)

ArCAD-UK

You have a Pro licence, this is what Layout does - Insert your model and set the scale. Unless of course you need the model scaled for 3D printing?

Dave R

If you need your SketchUp models scaled down for 3D printing, I would do as Carsten suggests and use the yellow Tape Measure tool to do the resizing. You can either use a temporary line drawn in the model space or scale some known dimension.

I've done paper models of buildings for model railroads. Here's an example:

I unfolded the building in the lower left corner to get the image, below. I inserted that as a viewport into Layout which I scaled to suit my son's N-scale railroad. Then I made a PDF file and had it printed on some heavy card stock. This part is all more easily done in LayOut and then the model could be printed at any scale.

I added tabs to my final design although they don't show here.

deaneau

papercraft is cool... im not sure... i had seen a plugin here... like unfold.

i would love do have both a plugin for papercraft and 3d printing.

papercraft for lowcost or lowbudged and 3d printing for models on the Table.

@ cotty du bist ein scherzkeks --cotty youre a joker.

a plugin will be faster and my deadline is not a problem than.

i have never print in 2d and 3d. is the result really acceptable?

@ dave. a model railroad was ever i big wish for me as a kid. however we have had only a sleepingroom and livingroom. the coal cellar was to small and dusty and the garret open for all renter.
i play sometimes with railsimulator on PC you see my dream is now reality...vitual reality

edit: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=27528&hilit=papercraft#p238568

regards dean

Box

Cotty is not joking with you.

Dave R

Indeed! Cotty is not joking with you. And his method with the Tape Measure tool would be every bit as fast as a plugin. Learn what the native tools can do before you ask for plugins to do the same thing.

cotty

@deaneau said:

@ cotty du bist ein scherzkeks --cotty youre a joker.

not really

deaneau

cotty you are my hero..that works... i had never known this function.

@dave you are right.

thanks at all

and thanks to dave, Don't trouble your head about it.

dean