@hornoxx said:

Actually I'm speechless but, as you see, obviously not
Long before I think about presented contents, As allways, I'll stick to your outstanding good graphic language. Reduced to white-gray-black, combined with a clear color coding using mainly orange as a matching contrast color for your there pointed(?) references. This "language" you hold through all the plans and everything, from start to end, is from one single font
Since this entire facility is probably too far away from the road to be seen from there, it is a good idea carefully to appreciate the driveway(?) with it´s own special design.
Especially I love the "simplicity" to produce plasticity by the use of shadows (are the shadows made by layer syles PS?). In the plan "Landscape Principles" this effect is nice to look at, since this works very playfully, without any strictness.

Thank you SO MUCH for the praise mate!!!!!!

To answer your question:

@hornoxx said:

Especially I love the "simplicity" to produce plasticity by the use of shadows (are the shadows made by layer styles PS?).

To keep the whole page sharp and text legible I've used Indesign to get the shadow effects for the trees. Everything on the page was compiled in Layout and exported as a layer enabled PDF.

The trees are on 3 separate layers within that PDF. Within Indesign the PDF is dragged onto a page, all tree layers turned off so all background elements only are displayed, this is then copied > pasted in place and just level one trees enabled and shadow cast added > pasted in place again and just level two trees enabled and shadow cast added > and again for level three trees. The whole document then exported out as a PDF.

The result is much cleaner and lighter (file size) wise as kept as vectors.

Again, big thanks mate!

Phew now final I can post the finished after a few months in design, documentation and the writing of a 70 page planning report to support the application.

BIG JOB! The proposal contains:

DEMONSTRATION GIN DISTILLERY,
RESTAURANT,
RECEPTION CENTRE,
MANAGER'S RESIDENCE,
COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY, and
15 TOURIST CHALETS

The development is within a sensitive Drinking Water Catchment, so we have had to employ the use several modern Aerobic Treatment Units to pretreat wastewater before on-site disposal. This on-site disposal of wastewater actually helps as we are also in a High Risk Bushfire, we essentially keep wet all vegetation surrounding the development, lowering its flammability.

The site is located within an established "rural agriculture | rural production area" so the intent of overall styling is to project built forms as "repurposed" from those expected in a predominantly rural area.

AND now the fingers are crossed that we have demonstrated a well considered, well addressed proposal that can be supported through assessment!

This thread is a pretty much an update of a previous, posted to display the "early concept".
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81%26amp;t=66083

Other than utilising Indesign to create shadows to the PDF exported from Layout, ALL docs were produced directly in Layout, IE: All floor plans, site plans and annotations. SketchUp was used for modeling and export of rendered elevations which were imported to Layout as images.

Layout | SketchUp | Maxwell | Photoshop | Indesign

@mike amos said:

Who would have thought Red bull could get so close with an engine they had actually rejected?

Or they have two drivers that are well above that of Merc, certainly both RB drivers have proven they can drive fast whilst still maintaining tyres, something Hamilton has proven he cant!

@mike amos said:

As far as Daniel goes, what a driver, Max is someone I cannot get a grip of yet. He is amazing at the wheel and dances that car around the track but is using driving tactics that got Michael Schumacher such a reputation as a bully. If he cannot drop the bully in the playground mentality he will be left behind.

Yeah Max's weaving under braking is totally suss, though he's proven the same from the driver in front bothers him little, "you close that door, I'll just drive the longer dirtier way and still get around you"! And does he have the measure of Daniel, in the wet where heroes are made, he has the measure of everyone! Brazil '16!!!!! Just drive past anyone anywhere on a wet track!

@mike amos said:

Valteri in the same car as Lewis? Fireworks, he will NOT be allowing Lewis to push him around the track like Nico did for so long.

Fingers crossed, Bottas is brilliant, and certainly the measure of Hamilton.

@mike amos said:

Nico will be missed but I think he will be happier and at peace. Good luck to him and his family.

Yeah, not this end!!! You don't retire as champion! Something someone said to me once that always stuck. Mike Doohan, 5 x Moto GP champion, face the reality that he may lose his leg if he broke it one more time but still continued to push for a championship. I suggested to a mate, "wouldn't you imagine faced with that he'd retire?", his response was "that is why he's a world champion, and you aren't"!

For me Nico bowed out knowing that he wouldn't be able to defend his championship even against his team mate! That's a bit soft!!!

BTW, I'm almost wet with excitement about this year! It hasn't even started but already feels like the true driver's championship of the 90's revisted!

Mate, I seriously just drool at your digitial penmanship!

Wow, just wow! Mood PLUS!!!!!!!!!!!

Is that the losing 2017 merc Rich? I have a gut feeling our Daniel Ricciardo or Max who is in for a championship win this year! To be honest, I'm not against any particular team, just as long as if Merc take the championship again, it is Bottas who pulls it off and Hamilton gets caught in lewd photos with Justin Beaver! Seriously what was the go in Monaco sharing the grog with him?? Makes total sense he was beaten in 2016 by a retiree!

Off vertical, dude you lost me!

It's sad that we seem not anywhere near evolving as a species Mike! We seem to be moving further and further from the Trekkie dream! Though I have faith that if we all just do in the very least one good thing for each other every day, we will slowly get there.

I live by the moto, "let me do good for someone at every chance, as I may not get that chance again".

As a simple example: For me I live in a very public spot (on the most popular beach in Sydney Harbor), I'll at many times in the day wonder over an park myself on a boardwalk bench soaking up the sites (bikini clad women mostly, life is hard). If I see a family looking for a spot to sit, I'll offer the bench I'm sitting on 1 versus 4 = 4 wins in my book and I'll always state that. As this beach is the safest of Sydney's beaches they are often foreign or non national families, most often they are rather taken with the fact you'd offer, and then just as often will want to engage!

In other words, always be a good ambassador for your home - for your people, others will see the wealth of your generosity! If we all kept doing lots of seriously easy things each day to make life better for our fellow humans, we will reach that Trekkie dream!

And seriously, we don't need to do those things with any sense of outcome, we should want to do them with the knowledge that that stuff is just the right thing to do!

I tend to think everyone is trying to make hay while the sun shines! We've been bitten by a downturn in the last half decade that has made us all a bit scared that the same could happen again any day!

For me personally, I've had a huge project in the pipeline, now just days away from completion and ready to post the final docs. Some nice design and LayOut works!

Mate to me that is making little sense!!!

Are all the pages exported from the same Layout file or later combined in Acrobat? You could try printing from the PDF to PDF this might fix it!

I'd also try exporting one page at a time and then check the properties of each to ensure they are correct sizing.

@freizeitkraemer said:

Hi all,

Text can be aligned left right and center but I can't find any option to justify text to form a nice block. Any work arounds for this one?

I'm trying to convince my colleagues to use Layout rather than Indesign for SketchUp presentations - but the limited text format options really make it difficult to sell. Layout is great for presentations of models that evolve and need frequent updating or drawings in scale. But the general work flow issues, limited export resolution and missing text features leave Layout behind the competition.
Having said that- I personally like it and use it a lot.

cheers, Thomas

BTW, why would you want to do this? The features in InDesign for EVERYTHING far outweigh those available in Layout! I currently work this way and it's rather seamless!

Nice work mate! The degree of roundness in the joints I'm not in love with though - makes the joint look a bit rustic!

That scene is divine mate! Makes me feel like grabbing the tent and heading out for a few days amongst the deadly snakes that slither through camps sites all too commonly here!

That looks amazing mate! The poster looks like it needs a bit of age hacking!

Ok then yep 10 out of 10!!!! You are a modern day hero!

Hmmm, If I'm understanding what you are saying you are using a SU file reproduced in Layout as vector and so to utilise the "clipping mask" option! If I'm understanding correctly, you get 10 out of 10 for being a genius!!!!

@dave r said:

This comes from another of DJH's threads. He can't get his copy of CorelDraw to recognize fonts in his LO exports. I've tried his files in other programs that read PDFs and haven't had any trouble.

What you see for PDF export options in LayOut are what is available to set.

From what I understand of Layout it doesn't embed fonts, there could well be a font licensing issue! I've had this issue with some fonts when exporting from Indesign in that the font license wont allow it to be embedded and I have to create outlines of all text before export. The reason it may work for you David is that you don't have that font on system so font substitution is occuring. Where on DJH's machine the same font is trying to be dragged in! Layout doesn't seem to drag up such warnings again as fonts are being embedded!

So for DJH, I'd try a different (standard system) font to test if this is the issue!

Interesting I import Layout PDF's to Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop - all with no issues!

Really very cool detail there mate!