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Moving to LayOut on this Round Barn... good fun. I'm working with an engineering firm on this one, and will be moving from these presentation drawings into production drawings upon client feedback. Need to add the entry - a gabled rampway that meets the conical roof. Should be fun working out the framing.
@tig said:
If you reread the README file... it says to put
flattery.rband theflatteryfolder [with its contents intact] into the Plugins folder...
It needs activating from Preferences > Extensions and then View > Toolbar...
yeah, i did all that. 
upon investigation, the download folder isn't exactly clean. 
took some doing, but i managed to clean up the nested nonsense and got it sorted.
would be better, i think, to have 2 files to download, mac, and pc. then eliminate the nesting and the guesswork.
also, the font color in my folder lists is green for this. weirdness. and i don't like it. 
no luck here, SU8 pro.
downloaded, extracted. copied the 'flattery' folder (left the MACOSx folder along) into plugins.
noticed there was no flattery.rb, found it inside the flattery folder, moved it to plugins.
shows up in my window>preference as being checked on, but can't seem to load it.
@sally said:
Hello,
I'be been happily using layout but suddenly the lines, dimensions and text I try to place ON my model seem to be behind it. I'm guessing it has something to do with "arrange" bring forward etc, but can't seem to stop it from happening. I don't know what I did to make it change like this?
rgds, Sally
are your dimensions on a separate layer?
move that layer above the 'model' layer.
layers act like trace paper - a layer on top will show on top of what is below.
my typical layers look like this:
notes
numbers (for part numbers / piece identification)
dimensions
whiteout (for blocking out parts of geometry / etc.)
model2 (secondary, detail model views)
model1 (primary model views)
titleblock2 (page specific information - usually just text)
titleblock1 (on every page - includes page frame, logo, etc.)
@bjornkn said:
Assigning a shortcut to "Make unique" would take you 10 secs, and 0.1sec every time you use it after a Move/copy.
yeah... thanks.
Copy and Make Unique?
I do lots of repetitive pieces parts drawings - but usually things can change slightly from one component to the next (ie, post length, or thickness, etc.)
How hard would it be to combine Move+Ctrl and Make Unique? (maybe with an extra key in there - like Ctrl+Alt?
Having an option to copy and make unique, with key commands or a script with an icon would be great. Would save copying then hitting the pull down for 'Make Unique'.
Anything out there?
@mike lucey said:
..... I was waiting for him to 'take off' into the other room
That is me, and I can assure you that if you do pop off, you do not go anywhere except down. 
@keea1111 said:
I tried rebooting and that didn't solve the problem. Does anyone know how to address this? thanks, Keea
it looks like the dimensions aren't pulling from 'real world' to scale - 3/4" seems awfully small for that building. are you on 'auto' scale - have you tried setting the scale to the correct ratio?
when i had a related issue of trying to pull dimensions that were on faces out of the world axis (tipped to a cutting plane) - i copied my viewport over to the right side NN", then exploded the view - this turns your 'live' window into your model into a bunch of vector lines and graphics.
i then applied dimensions to the exploded viewport, being sure to set the correct scale.
when finished, grabbed them all and moved them back the same NN".
they weren't associative at this point - but they were accurate.
was having that very same issue yesterday. i did a re-boot and re-started layout. seems to have worked itself out.
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home made rollers. keeps you honest. 
Thanks. Been letting my AutoCAD installation collect virtual dust lately.
Really enjoying the process and workflow.
Hoping that G continues to develop LayOut as a Pro tool. Lots of room for continued improvement on an already great package.
@edson said:
mike,
your construction drawings have a quality uncommon to this kind of document: they look great as graphic pieces. congratulations.
thank you edson. much appreciated, and i'm humbled that some of you have taken the time to comment on my work.
-mike
Just a small collection of recent work utilizing SketchUp + LayOut.
Some of this is design work by me and for clients, other work done as a consultant to produce construction or fabrication documents.
I come from an art + architecture background, and drifted into timber frame design / building.
Currently I do heavy timber design work / prelim engineering as well as a mix of design / production / presentation / arch viz / etc. drawings and presentations on everything from small residential (working on an off the grid, in the woods house right now) to some commercial work.
Chester, NH covered bridge. The engineering team sent me their 3d solids. I added joinery and steel details in SketchUp, then detailed in LayOut:
Poland Project - reconstruction of a synogague in Sanok, Poland, to later hang in a Warsaw Museum. I produced the fabrication drawings from the engineer's 3d solids model. In SketchUp I modeled the joinery, connections, and other details, then detailed in LayOut. The timbers were hand converted (axe, saw) from trees, then scribed to create the structure. I have a few images from the field of folks using the drawings...
A woodshed / expansion / sawmill building in VT. I worked from the clients sketches and prelim CAD drawings. I partnered with an engineer (friend) to produce drawings for permit / construction:
Mill Rd. Project - designed in SketchUp for schematic design / review and then brought into LayOut for presentation. The project was turned over to a local (to the owner) design / build firm for permit drawings / etc.
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Another good one, language NSFW:
nicely done!
i had to bend an entire house (client wanted to see 2 versions...)
i modeled the 'straight' version first, then used FredoScale to bend the house.
windows, doors, stairs, trim, etc. i broke the house into pieces, and bent each piece with the same reference points and angles to match a radius that i pre-tested. time consuming to get the setup right - but once that was done - it saved me from re-drawings the entire thing on and arc.
i'll have to look at shapebender...!
@alan fraser said:
I'd like to see him pedal UP that dune.
I'll go find some pics.
The bikes in question were designed for the Iditarod trail... so they can make it up, over and through some pretty tough terrain.
