Try exporting as PDF, with image resolution set to high, and then rasterizing in an image editor like photoshop or GIMP, with resolution set to 200dpi, and saving to jpg.

Edit:

Had success exporting up to 2000mm (78"). Any higher and the pdf came out blank. Maybe a hard limit set inside LO.
But, PDF output set to high will export at 300dpi, so changing image size, without resampling should get your 2500mm wide image at 200dpi without issue.

Thank you TIG! Just what I was looking for. Followed your instruction for customizing the prefix and got to work!

Hi Thomthom,

thanks for the reply.

Yes, but that option only removes the polygon, the lines are all drawn with or without filled polygon.

So if I understand, text is created by sketchup directly, not by your plugin. What your plugin does is in a way, control the native sketchup 3d text tool, and keep a reference of the text content, so it can be changed afterwards.

Not easy to change I guess, or, it should be changed directly in sketchup's core.

HI Thomthom,

I've used this plugin a lot, and really really like it. It should replace the default text tool in sketchup. Thank you!

I've been doing some 3d laser cutting lately, and have been using a lot of "engraving" fonts such as this one:
http://www.ffonts.net/Machine-Tool-Gothic.font . The preview in windows font viewer is horrible, but in sketchup they work just fine. If I understand correctly, ttf fonts have to be closed shapes, but that makes for an ineffective engraving/cutting font.

I usually create the text and then explode it/edit it to remove the last segment, so I get single line fonts. This is fine, but makes the text non editable after this. Is it possible to have an option in your plugin to use these kind of fonts and not close the loops / draw the last segment.

Again, thanks a lot for all your work!

Santiago

Hi all,

I switched from dropbox to google drive recently. I've been having issues saving layout files to google drive. The problem is that, after the first save in the session, Layout has issues doing quick save to the same file, when the file is big, and the save (ctrl+S) is done very frequently.

My theory is that google drive, after the first save, takes ownership of the file while it uploads it to the cloud, and, since layout files tend to be big, it takes a while for gdrive to release it. So, if layout tries to save over the existing file, it does not get permission to save over, until the previous file gets uploaded.

This bug makes me shut down google drive when working with layout, which is very inconvenient.

Anyone else seen this?

Santiago

Hi KCDA,

thanks for the scrapbook. Looks useful for schematics.

Santiago

@jql said:

Having an option for a model displayed in Raster/Hybrid but exported as Vector for CAD.

Yes please... this is really necessary.

• Option to assign not only lineweight, but linetype to vector viewports.
• Show the current layer someplace like the window title.
• Option to draw stuff using viewport units (draw stuff at 1:50 for example)
• Ordinate dimensions (for stuff like levels in elevations and coordinates)
• Spot elevation (for levels in plans)
• Better display of dashed lines so they display properly at polyline ends. (linetype generation in autocad world).
• PDF import support in windows

I had a chance to talk to some of the developers at 3dbc, but forgot to mention most of this stuff .

Agreed. A make unique material option would be ideal.

Try this:
-Copy your base component
-Make the copy unique and save it to disk
-Open the copy and make a small adjustment to the material (colorize it). and save it.
-In the original file, reload the modified component. There should be 2 different materials in the editor, one for each component.
-Go to the new component, and edit the texture in an external editor, and paste the new texture over the old one. Make sure the textures line up. Flatten the image and save it.

When loading from disk, sketchup tries to maintain visual fidelity of components and materials, so when it finds a similarly named comp or material with different definition, it creates a new material or component definition.

I'm currently running version 353.62 of nvidia drivers, without issues. Some previous version had problems. You may need to manually download these from nvidia, and replace the ones that ms installs from windows update. Maybe by this time, the ones available on windows update are current with the ones from nvidia.