@juju said:

@unknownuser said:

@mrstop said:

@unknownuser said:

Hi Paul, my apologies.

We are a little behind, which is my fault. Running an architectural business and writing a book at the same time has been more time consuming than I expected. Trimble came to my office last month to do some follow-up videos, so hopefully this will ease the wait a little. The book will go into a lot of detail on these processes, as well as provide one of my house models to follow along or dissect as you feel necessary. Without Matt, this wouldn't even happen!
Here's a link to the new video series...much more in depth than the last ones:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-bndkJaV8A6tVUVIlqFHMAcodO8aATrh

I'm not sure why I missed the announcement of this book, but I just found out and I'm very excited! Do you have any update as to when we can expect its release?

This fall!

month & year reference? (international audience with differing seasons)

Fall technically started in the US (where the authors are based) on September 23. Fall ends on December 21. We will need Mr. Sonder to confirm, but reading into his response of THIS Fall, it would seem to imply the year 2015 of the Gregorian calendar.

@unknownuser said:

Hi Paul, my apologies.

We are a little behind, which is my fault. Running an architectural business and writing a book at the same time has been more time consuming than I expected. Trimble came to my office last month to do some follow-up videos, so hopefully this will ease the wait a little. The book will go into a lot of detail on these processes, as well as provide one of my house models to follow along or dissect as you feel necessary. Without Matt, this wouldn't even happen!
Here's a link to the new video series...much more in depth than the last ones:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-bndkJaV8A6tVUVIlqFHMAcodO8aATrh

I'm not sure why I missed the announcement of this book, but I just found out and I'm very excited! Do you have any update as to when we can expect its release?

Thanks for your help. Starting with the end in mind and the methodical layer creating tip solved my problem. My model now shows 71 components and 34 layers.

@dave r said:

I tend to put related components on the same layer. So both case sides are on one, the bottom is on another, drawers are on a third and so on. In the model space I have the fully assembled model at the origin and an exploded view behind and to the right a bit. There are copies of individual components located nearby but out of view for the exploded and assembled views. For example, the case has two sides but there are six copies of the component in the model space. Two of them appear in the assembled model, two in the exploded view and then I used two to create a scene showing the part in 2D. I could have done that using two different scenes and then two different viewports in LO but this method works for me. One thing I'll stress is that every part in the model is drawn as a component. There are no groups. If/when I need to edit something in the model, I do it on the fully assembled copy knowing without doubt that my changes will carry through to every scene.

In any case, you should be able to get everything you need displayed without a hundred layers. I think that would be a lot easier to manage than hiding and unhiding components.

I think this makes sense. Right now I am using the outliner and everything is a component. That said, I have created a lot of groups of components to help organize my model. Is this a bad idea?

I am trying to create a set of dimensioned drawings in layout for a wood working project I designed in Sketchup. To start the process, I have begun creating scenes in SU of the different views I want. In some of the scenes, I want to show an individual component so that I can get detailed dimensions of drilling patterns and what-not.

To create the scene of the individual component, I have hidden all of the other components. I then created the scene with the "Hidden Geometry" box checked. After I have done this and I return to other scenes,the other scenes have all the components hidden as well.

Some searching suggests that the best practice is to not hide components when creating scenes. Is this correct? Are there cases when I should use the hide function in creating scenes?

It seems that the recommended practice is to put the component I want to highlighton an individual layer. So, if I want detailed drawings of a 100 individual components in a model, I would have to create 100 individual layers? Is this correct, or is there a better way?

@unknownuser said:

While some may disagree, architectural drawings should only be drawn to the framing and dimensioned accordingly.

Thanks for the clarification. I just surmised from the detail and beauty of your drawings, you were including everything!

Thanks for the excellent set of videos. I have just started playing around with layout and they are very helpful to understand the process.

You mention in the videos that you dimension to rough framing, which I get the reasons why. You say you do this by dimensioning inside of trim. In the Sketchup file, does trim also include drywall (or other wall finish( in addition to other trim-work? If so, are you modeling the drywall separately, or are you just pulling the dimensions back the amount equivalent to the drywall spec?