Hi Fredo,

Thanks very much for the ongoing development of this excellent tool!

One feature request I have that I think would go a long way towards ease of integration with other renderers would be the ability for Animator to save individual animation frames to SketchUp scenes - each scene could then be batch rendered (for example by Enscape) without requiring any direct integration.

Is this functionality in your development plans at all? I have also been requesting Enscape to work on integrating their rendering functionality with Animator so hopefully this can happen some day!

Thanks again,
Christian

@pgarch said:

That looks good Christian. I am interested to know is the thick lines of the reinforcing were done within SU? and is fo how?

Everything was modelled within sketchup. The reinforcing is a 12mm DIA circle extruded along a line, then filled Black.

I modelled each precast panel in their entirety so I could foresee any issues/clashes with the reinforcing layout.

The entire model was build within Sketchup in 3d, rather then just producting a 2d line drawing. All annotations and most dimensions were done within Layout. I have just directly inserted the 3 different views of the same model into Layout and gone from there.

Hi all,

This is my first post, but this seems a sensible place to put it. Ive been using Sketchup and Layout the last few months now for producing precast concrete and structural steel shop drawings for construction purposes. (see attached examples).

Havent had any problems with getting the drawings approved by the project engineers, and the drawings are generally of better quality thens some others I have seen. I have found the dimension feature of LO2.1 to be extremely useful, as previously I was dimensioning my models within SU and hoping they would come out OK. Any feedback on the drawing would be appreciated!

Anyway, this forums been loads of use, and hopefully continues to be.

Cheers,
Christian

Precast Concrete Shop Drawing