I started using SketchUp in 2001 or 2002 when I went to a ten week course in SketchUp and AutoCAD. I did all the beginner errors but slowly built my knowledge of the program. It's mostly been a pleasant journey but I still think it should have been developed more into a professional tool but I won't go into that here...

@marked001 said: These are awesome, Edson. Have missed seeing your work. I'm about to start documenting an addition to my home with LayOut. Documentation is not my thing! thanks, jason. I must say I quite enjoy taking my own designs to construction documents. modeling the details in 3D is akin to building the real thing and is essential to solving all construction issues. the saddening thing is that in many cases the builder does not follow them to the letter. worse than that, I have had a couple of situations in which the builder (in the countryside) barely looked at them and built my design"his way" with results you can imagine. very frustrating indeed. regards.

Edson, which solution was the one you needed?

This is a link to my post where I think It is a similar issue http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=551208#p551208

Anyone find a real solution for this yet? I don't think the real question was ever addressed. See the attached file for the lines that were originally questioned.[image: zRZV_Capture.JPG]

Yes, it's true,It was just a prediction (no information), we call it the French flair! .Well, the new version of SketchUp pro and Layout brings us a lot of good things and especially for DWG imports/exports. cordially

Actually, if you triple click to select all of the geometry inside the component and then apply the paint, you will paint the edges as well as the faces but of course that's because you've selected the edges along with the faces.

@fredo6 said: Edson, When you get a crash, could you send the bug report to Trimble, specifying this is about BezierSpline. So far, I don't have enough elements to figure out in which area it can be. Since SU8 and SU13 use the same version of Ruby, it must be something more subtle. Thanks Fredo I have already done it.

Thank you for the link!

Where is folder of default materials? I have imported my custom materials and since now I have double of everything I want delete default ones but I can't find folder? It's Sketchup 2017.

I have not watched the tutorials mentioned here, but there is another valid solution perhaps? http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=38637&p=341462#p341462 Create hatched lines in Sketchup and hide outlined edges.

@unknownuser said: @aureus said: @unknownuser said: Yes, that is exactly what I do. Works really well. And may I ask you what do you do when you need to put height dimensions of this sort (attached)? So far I haven't found them in SketchUp nor in LayOut. In layout, use the stock scrapbooks or create your own. OK, thanks, Nick. I knew that. I was just curious if I missed some other way, more automatic like in the case of usual dimensional work. In this way you need to type height values yourself. Luckily, there's not much of manual work here since usual construction documentation doesn't require so many of those symbols or at least requires much less than typical dimensions. Greets P.S. Your videos on YouTube are fantastic and I have just found out on other topic that you got even better working machine.

Thanks Dave for the answer, so simple. More thanks to Edson for asking the question !

thanks

Edson, when someone says "is this Vray?" and you say, "no it's Podium", it really shows just how well you apply the software. These renders are some of the best I've seen. I adore the portrait image!

@paul russam said: Awwwww, I feel bad now When I originally wrote it in 2007 I knew it could be better but it was beyond my programming abilities. I'm chuffed its still being used and I hope somebody picks it up and gets it working the way you want. paul, please do not feel bad. you have done your part and we cannot thank you enough for doing the plugin in the first place. it is just that when people like a plugin they want to push it to do more than it was planned for.

Cool for the Macs users! After the Iphone 5 they are lucky!

@Edson and everyone here, thanks for talking about this topic. I wish to have an open mind regarding other approaches to this problem that might be helpful (or better??) I agree with your points on this topic. The pros and cons are correct. However, there will always remain the need to deal with CAD-like detail in some way- whether it is dealt with in a pure CAD programme or in LayOut. I admire the efforts to take detail into the 3D realm and this is a worthy alternative that should be encouraged and advanced, e.g. Like Robertson & Walsh Design http://sketchupdate.blogspot.ie/2010/10/sketchup-pro-case-study.html Personally while I love creating neat documents in small/ medium doses, I hate the huge effort it takes to create construction documents which is why I created this methodology in the first place While I love efficiency, there can be an over-reliance on automation for an area that requires very close and careful monitoring and this is where I saw many of the problems that were evident in Autodesk AEC (now dead) and the overly complicated tools in some other packages. One source told me about a certain softwaRe that attempted to create a good workflow for construction documentation and didn't quite achieve it (due to the fact that it was a complete disaster- not my opinion) Tools should definitely be developed to assist in the area of 2D documentation. The world is tired of sad ol CAD http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=1a97699ccccefb478d83901d4c57a251 [image: download?mid=1a97699ccccefb478d83901d4c57a251&rtyp=lt&ctyp=other&ts=1254452187000]

@slbaumgartner said: Here's another one: I added some plugins' tools to the main toolbar using View->Customize Toolbar... Works great, but when SketchUp starts, these are missing from the toolbar on the blank window SU opens by default. If I open a window on an existing file or open another new window using the File menu, they reappear. Seems to me this must be a sequencing problem: most likely SU creates the default window before it has loaded the plugins. Not a big deal, but a minor annoyance. Steve long time bug.. multiple requests to have it fixed.. nada.. meh..