Thanks Chris and mitcorb; I'll try Jim's poltrude tool. Checked the Ruby library Depot, but didn't see it; 1001 tools has other handy tools but not random sized rectangles. I'll check out extrapolate colors and random colors.

George

Does anyone know of a plugin that randomly subdivides a rectangular surface into rectangles and squares and possibly be able specify the largest and smallest subdivision? I'm looking to do a layout pattern for stone pavers, random sized with size limitations and thought I saw a surface subdivide plugin a while back. Thanks.

While reading another recent post on primitives; I saw this and thought it might work for you: http://www.ohyeahcad.com/download/

Good Luck!

Hi,

I've exported a Layout file to pdf rendered as a raster image and some of the dimension and text font in some of the scenes/views I've linked to Layout really drop out and shrink in line weight and size, other scenes/views are are fine. If I process the Layout scene/view as a vector or hybrid image everything comes through fine and I can print with no problems and things are legible and at the size and weight they should be on my large format printer.

The problem comes when I email the vector/hybrid pdf to the local printing house to print the drawing; the vector and hybrid images in plan section turn to a heavy illegible black mess - you can see it's a plan but the lines get really heavy and bleed together.

The image/scenes styles are all the standard SU "Engineering Style" with the line weight set to .25 to preserve detail, though a .5 line weight works as well. All scenes and views are Ortho Projection and to scale.

The export pdf Output Quality is set to High.

The original SU file was done on a Mac platform in SU 7.0 (not pro) but then the SU file is opened, edited, and done in Layout on a Windows XP platfrom

1. Is there some reason that the font and text sizes wouldn't be consistent across all of the scenes/views (they are all the same in SU) when rendered as a raster image and exported as a pdf?

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2. Is there some known reason why the vector and hybrid rendered images are printing so poorly when sent as a pdf to a commercial printer, but ok on my large format printer?

If anyone can shed some light on this it would be greatly appreciated; thanks.

SketchUp version: 7.1.6087 Pro
Operating system:Windows XP