Hi
I'm curious about your folks workflow.

I'm trying to find a fast / the best way to use Sketchup. Until now I have been creating all 2d drawings in AutoCad, plans sections ect.... But now I'll try to get rid of AutoCad and use Sketchup as the 'only' drawing program.

What I try to do is create plan, sections, perspectives in Sketchup. Export/print them as PDF place them in indesign. But sometimes I would like to be able to edit the drawing, like adding colors, delete lines and so on...... This I would like to do in Illustrator, but haven't yet successed beeing able to modify inside illutrator. Live paint won't work with PDF files so......

How is your workflow ?

Thanks
Jorgensen

Hi

I'm trying to print a PDF from Sketchup - using a PDF virtuel printer.
I'm trying to achieve a simple, line drawing, floor plan with shaded textures.
But it seems like there is a big cloud on front of the sun.

If I don't use HLR the 'darkness' disapears, but the drawing looks like a bitmap drawing, and lost its the sharpness from the HLR format.

Settings:
Display - shaded
No shadows
PDF setting - use HLR

Can anyone help ?

Jorgensen

Hi Gaieus

Thanks for your quick reply. I will take a look at Didirs script.

Thanks
Jorgensen

Hi

I have build a very simple, yet, for me, a very useful layermanager.

It displays a toolbar with some buttons to turn off/on some specific layers.

What I'm not able to, is to make this script more flesible. For example, the layer I use to keep my autocad files in I call 0x Dwg, but other users might call it something else like blueprint.

So my question, how do I make the script more flexible ?

Like having variables called:
dwg_layer (for dwg drawings)
icons_layer (for tress people cars and....)

thiese variables can then be modified local in the drawing, and saved inside the drawing.

Does anyone have any idea about to achieve this kind of fleksibility ?

Thanks
Jorgensen