Thanks for the info and help. I built it yesterday, before I had a chance on figuring out the layout tool. I needed a way of moving a hobby lathe into my new garage.
And I think I'll pull the trigger on Pro since it does what I want.
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I'm running make and am still on the fence about pro because I need the ability to make 2d shop drawings quickly and easily like Autocad can. It was a real struggle to get the angular dimensions off of the tubes because sketchup would not grab an outer edge to go off of, so I had to draw temporary lines and even eyeball the 73.2 degree measurement.
I changed the axes to the middle of my objects, ran flatten-faces and it would send the group to the moon. My workaround was to copy my objects and paste them into a new file. The reason they were miles from the center were because I work in x 1000 so I can use .001" precision without as many sketchup hickups, then I scale it back down if needed and sometimes I grab the most convenient corner which sends it far away, or export STL in meteres which doesnt require me to scale it back down.
I drew a gantry and would like to flatten it so I can snap dimensions in a 2d shop drawing format. I would also like to 'unwrap' a pipe connection so I can print it out, lay it on the pipe and trace where I will need to cut. How do I go about it?
I'm running version 17.2.2555 64-bit
