That did the trick.
Thanks.
@unknownuser said:
zx10r_Gaz:
LO still takes much longer to start up than SU does...
Yeah, I thought there was something wrong with my computer the first few times I used it!
That did the trick.
Thanks.
@unknownuser said:
zx10r_Gaz:
LO still takes much longer to start up than SU does...
Yeah, I thought there was something wrong with my computer the first few times I used it!
I was hoping to use LayOut to do some professional looking presentations with my floor plans. I don't even need 3-D, just a 2-D spread of a 3-story house at 1/4" = 1' scale. That means a page size greater than 11x17. In fact, it would be the standard 24x36 page size. That just brings my computer to a grinding halt-- twice I've had to do a Ctrl-Alt-Delete to end the program, as it just hung up on disk access for what seemed like forever. When it does work, the response time is so slow that it's just unusable.
Any tips for speeding things up? I used the "send to LayOut" command from SketchUp, set the scale to what I wanted and tuned the DPI down to 150 hoping that would help-- but it's still just too slow to use.
Do I need to restrict myself to one of the templates available? I notice that the largest size offered is 11x17.
Yep, that worked. Thanks, Gaieus.
Oh, that's in LayOut. I was looking in SketchUp. I'll try that later today.
@jhauswirth said:
Don't use 300 dpi in LayOut until you're ready to export to PDF or print, do 72 dpi while you're creating your doc.
Yeah, I figured that out quick!
@unknownuser said:
Line thickness is in the style tab in the Sketchup Inspector. Its in points.
So try 0.2.
Sorry, but what is "SketchUp Inspector"? I did a search for "Inspector" on the help page, and it came up blank.
I hate to bother you guys again about something similar, but I'm still stuck on how to get a high quality floorplan into LayOut. You don't "export" to LayOut, you use the "send to LayOut" command. But there aren't any options to set the linewidths (as there are for the export command), it just sends the file. I've tried changing the quality to 300 DPI in LayOut, but that didn't help. I was hoping to use LayOut to do some text labeling since SketchUp is very limited as to what you can do with text.
BTW-- LayOut seems to be a tremendous memory hog, but that's another issue. Just a simple floorplan, to scale, brings my computer to its knees!
@anssi said:
And here is the "final" file:
[attachment=0:3ba0xxza]<!-- ia0 -->testi2.pdf<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3ba0xxza]
Anssi
Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you!!! That does indeed do the trick.
I would have never figured that out from just reading the documentation on Exporting in the "Help" section.
@anssi said:
I had no problem exporting.
I didn't either!
But then I figured out what the problem is. I have to use 2D export to get the .pdf option, and in that case it only exports what's visible on the screen. In order for me to get the whole floorplan on the screen, I have to make it much smaller. In that case, you don't get individual lines-- it's like you did a screen capture, and you lose all the detail.
Try it again with that bathroom floorplan shrunk down like this (don't adjust the magnification):
Interestingly, this seems to happen the same way when you use "insert" in LayOut. You only get what's visible on the screen from the .skp file. And if you shrink it down enough to get an entire floorplan (in my case a set of floorplans), you just end up with a blurry image.
Maybe I'm missing something, but if you can't export to Acrobat at scale, and at 24x36 paper size, then it's not much use in a real-world situation, because that's what's you're going to have to give to builders and city planning depts., etc. I have to believe that this has been worked out, and that I am missing something.
@anssi said:
Well-you say you adjust the page size to get the right scale. For me it works the other way round. I set the scale, and the page size adjusts itself (as I tab out of the scale box). I never touch the page size settings unless I want output that is not to scale.
Sorry if I didn't make that clear. I set the Drawing Size "scale" parameters* and let the "size" parameters adjust themselves.
*This was not easy, though, as SketchUp kept trying to tell me I was exceeding the page size limit. I had to do it in a certain order, or it would reject it.
@unknownuser said:
Can you attach your skp file?
Hmmm. Having trouble doing that. I copied my SketchUp file into the sketchucation newbie folder, but when I click on it, I don't get a URL address to link to-- just and empty (Mozilla) browser page. It worked fine with that .bmp file I did earlier. If you want to look at it, it's in the newbie folder under "Bathroom Floor Plan".
@gaieus said:
Have you tried to export from LayOut?
Just tried it. Same result-- bad.
Anssii: I checked again, and I do have the "Profile Lines" section set to "Match screen display". I'm not sure what the "profile width" box is, though. Did you mean "Drawing Size width" box?
@anssi said:
Please don't use the BMP format for image attachments, the file sizes are enormous and they take ages to load
Sorry about that. I just used the screen-capture program that Gaieus recommended in an earlier thread: "Gadwin PrintScreen". I guess it defaults to .bmp. Can I still use that and convert to another format that doesn't create such large files?
I'll fool around with your recommendations, but I'm not quite sure I understand what you're getting at. I set the drawing size parameters so that it would be to scale at 1/4" = 1' in Acrobat.
Thanks, Gaieus. Let's see if this works. Sketch-up floor plan on the left, what the image looks like after export to Acrobat on the right:
BTW, I did have those setting correct, Kenny.
@gaieus said:
Could you show a screenshot of what it looks like?
I have one, but I don't know how to post a file here. Is there some dummy site on this MB I can upload to and then link to from here?
@kenny said:
The print settings shouldn't affect the display. Make sure you have got hardware accelaration on (Window, Preferences, Open GL)
Kenny
Is that in SketchUP or Acrobat?
Thanks for the advice. BTW, it's not just printing-- the file looks bad on my screen even before I print. I don't think adjusting the print options should affect that, should it?
@gaieus said:
Hi Goggin,
I'd have two questions:
- Do you use any of the graphical styles provided now in SU6? Those might behave differently when exported.
I don't think so. I'm not even sure what those are. Mine is a simple floor plan-- nothing fancy.
@unknownuser said:
- Have you tried to export from LayOut?
Yeah, that was what I was thinking I'd try next. I haven't used LayOut yet, but I'll give it a go today or tomorrow.
I figured I must be doing something wrong since this is a key feature-- if it doesn't work well, then I don't think Pro would be worth purchasing.
I should add...
I only have the free version of Adobe acrobat, but when my architect sends me a PDF file that she has exported from AutoCad, it looks fine. I don't think it's a problem on acrobat's end, but I figured I'd include this info just in case.
I find that I need to export my files to PDF format in order to have them printed on 24x36 paper at print-shops. But the quality of the image is terrible. The lines are so thick, that you can't even see walls on floor plans. It's just a big blur.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to export the file to PDF and preserve the image quality? Or, is there some other file type I can use? The print shops I go to, including Kinko's, don't have SketchUp on their systems, and I can only access the smaller printers from my laptop when I'm at one of their workstations; not the large printers for 24x36 inch paper
@unknownuser said:
Heh! Heh!... I am still on version 5, mostly. Goggin, sorry if I have confused you.
No problem. I'll PM you my PayPal account so you can compensate me for the $500 I'll have to spend now.
@unknownuser said:
That's a 2D Graphic export. You should choose File > Export > 3D Model. Otherwise, if you want 2D export of entire model, zoom extents seem to be the only option.
Interesting. So, if I pick 3D Model, it will export the whole file regardless of what is on the screen? Do you know why it's set up that way. Not intuitively obvious to me.
@gaieus said:
What format were you trying to export?
And 2D vector or 3D?
I chose 2D, because that was what I wanted. I had parallel camera view, top.
Basically, I was exporting a file to the architect I'm working with, who uses AutoCad in 2D.