Posts made by Klog

Max
If you are using the stock hatches that come with Skup then you probably cannot change the sharpness. When you make your own you bypass that problem unless the style you are using for the scene incorporates some fade-out (fog). Thanks for the info on dimension leaders ...
Al (Klog)

Kaas
"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."
As far as I know the leaders for dimension lines cannot be altered - LO or SKUP. Second, I created some clear hatches from AutoCad by hatching a box in AC and making a jpg of it. Choose the lineweight in AC. Save the jpg where you would put .skm files, crop for tiling, and create a new material in SKUP using that jpg.
The "hatches" (read materials) in SKUP are subject to inherent styles apparently (someone correct me if wrong)and often include some screening effects.
I prefer the dimensioning to be done in SKUP for the same reasons you do. I will attempt to attach the concrete hatch made in this fashion.
Hope this helps some.
Klog

Desat concrete.skm

Hello to all in this thread

I have just uploaded to Google Warehouse my set of Electrical symbols and structural symbols including the Elusive DASHED LINE! To use the electrical symbols just open each component and hide the version you do not want. For the dashed line and arc just scale them to the drawing, edit component and get rid of the very stretched circle. For those who want to fine tune the process of creating dashed lines and get them to the right look for their projects here is the info: painful as it is, for a straight line you must draw a set of equal lines with equal spaces between (or any regular variation, I think mine were 1/4" each) and - here is the key - add a small circle to one end. Then make a component of it and it is scalable. For the arc I just drew an arc, exploded it, made a component of it, and hid every other segment in edit mode. It too is scalable.

After digesting every word in this forum topic it is time to give back to you all. At least I hope this is an original idea or I will feel real stupid the URL: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=ead79f519f67b4c28fb37abf337da9ec&ct=mdcc&prevstart=0

Thank you all for the great info.
Klog

Tim ... Thanks for sharing the electrical symbols. It is a problem I have been dealing with slowly. Klog

Gaieus/Dylan
Thanks. By line weights I mean on the printouts and possibly by layer so that cabinetry and other less important features of a floor plan are more background. I've seen the "depth" button on the edit>edges menue. It helps. Justlooking, like many , for a little more discrimination of line thickness. And Dylan, I will check out tyhe item you posted.

Thanks again
Klog

Has anyone found the solution to controlling ling weights?? That is, more than is in the styles tray.??
Thanks, Klog