Hello,

I'm trying out the combination of SU and LO as an alternative to CAD. I added a picture from a test.

The picture at the top is a perspective view from SU, rendered in LO as vector. I added the dimensions in SU because there I'm sure which points I'm measuring. In LO the dimensions are sometimes off.
Question: can the leaders of the dimensions in SU somehow be hidden? I prefer just the slash.

The second picture is a section cutface with the hatches from SU, rendered in LO as raster.
Question: Is there a way to improve the quality / crispness of the hatches? I use high res images as textures and my output quality is set to high.

The third image is the section cutface without textures rendered in LO as vector.

The last image is a combination of all of the above in LO.

I'm not unhappy with the final image in LO but I would like to improve some elements. I hope someone has an answer to the questions.

Greetings,

Max

edit: added the pdf

pdf

hello TIG,

Thanks for your suggestion. This wouldn't give me the look I was aiming for. I already started to do it manually.

Greetings, Max

Hello forum people,

I have a question I would like to ask;
is it possible to create a style that displays all the material colours in white but still shows textures (hidden line view but with textures) ?

I would like to leave the materials in the 3d model as it is but at the same time to have my Layout drawings be pure black and white with textures for the hatches.

Thanks,

Greetings, Max

hello,

My name is Max. I'm not new to the forum but I haven't posted before. Many thanks and compliments to the forum people who so generously share their knowledge and ruby's!

I'm an architect in the Netherlands and atm looking into the possibilities for using Sketchup and Layout solely without the need for additional CAD software.
I'm having a great time reading 'Construction & Working Drawings - Discussion'

Greetings,

Max