Thank you Richard & pbacot,
The SU hatch file can be used as it is, straight from a Scrapbook (or wherever it is saved) with adjustments to scale, line weight & visibility/style of viewport edge; and then, using the grips, fitted to where it is needed. The Clipping Mask comes in when the shape to be filled is other than a rectangle. Each hatch can be copied within the Layout and re-used at a different scale etc.
I will check out the plugin.
All the best
Brian
Hi all,
As I understand it, some folks would prefer vector hatches in Layout. I don't now use hatching very often but I have been experimenting with a way to do it. Of course I realise that my version of hatching will exist only in Layout & will not be 'Smart' in any way. I apologise if this has been thought of/discussed before.
Essentially, I create a single hatch in a SU file, insert into a Scrapbook & then simply drag-n-drop into the Layout workspace. For instance, a line of batting (insulation) is drawn at full size in SU. The array length should be made long enough to fill the expected space (in LO), at the expected scale. A cross hatch should, of course, be arrayed in both the X & Y directions and again long enough in two directions to fill the expected space in Layout.
Once in Layout the hatch can be manipulated in any way that an inserted SU file can be because it is just another Viewport. In this way rectangular areas can be filled quite easily & quickly. More complex shapes can be filled by tracing round the shape perimeter and using the trace to produce a Clipping Mask from the hatch. More awkward are shapes with an 'island' or hole but with experimentation it is sometimes possible to produce a trace that is joined throughout, including the hole. Once the clipping mask is applied the trace stroke can be turned off in the Format tab leaving just the hatch. A simple filled shape would work as well.
I attach a Layout file (LO 2015) and a PDF of the same. This will, I hope, go some way to illustrating what I have come up with.
Layout file with sample hatching
Hi Nino,
Try redrawing with a reduced segment count in both the main pipe and junction pipe before using Fredo6 Round corner
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12%26amp;t=38061
Above is link to previous posts on this subject. Hope you may find these useful!
Try searching for 'Hammered Copper Sheet' or 'Planished Copper Sheet' for the base texture.
@bob james said:
@bob james said:
@jql said:
Apologies accepted if you post it on the Duh thread!
So here goes my duh:
@bob james said:
This seems so simple that it must already exist, but I could not find it.
For example: I want to make a 4" square post at a specific spot. If I wanted a round post there I would just select the circle tool, place the cursor at the point and drag out (or put a value in the VCB).
I'd like to be able to do that for a square: select tool, place the cursor at the point and drag out (or put a value in the VCB)
I apologize if this already exists
@jql said:
LOL bob you can make your life difficult if you draw a 4 sided circle and explode it.
Or you can make your life painless if you draw a 4 sided polygon without exploding it.
Those two are native tools. Do you forget sketchup also has native tools?
Your suggestions create 45 deg rotated squares.
Why can't someone just make a simple extension to make an orthogonally positioned square starting from a center point?
How about this?
Use the four sided polygon as suggested. Place an initial polygon on the line of axis (your fence line?) with the placement/inference line on this axis. You now have a rotated 4 sided polygon at 45 deg to the axis. Place the actual fence post polygon to the required centre spot and use its placement line to pick-up a perpendicular inference from the initial polygon. Your fence post is now square on to the fence line. Hope I have placed this reply correctly.
My most recent Duh! moment was finding that in the VCB (measurement field)if either of the two lengths was what you need just type the separator comma followed by a number or a number followed by the comma and Enter.
To ensure that the texture you are sampling is actually a previously rotated example just draw a cube with the texture rotated as required on each face (make group or component). Use the cube to sample from and not the model itself. A refinement, if you will be using the same texture again, would be to create the sample cube like a Rubic cube. Then each sub face can be moved as well as rotated to provide variation of parts of the texture image.
Hi Guys,
I have come across this as well and my thoughts are that the dimension is not snapping to the appropriate end point because the point is masked by other geometry. For instance, with a section cut you may want to dimension a feature that is further back in your model than another object that appears in front of it. Although the dimension end point looks to be anchored to the correct spot it is not. Sometimes I have found the only way round this is to go into the model and draw a temporary line to anchor the dimension correctly and erase this afterwards. I often draw kitchen worktops with curved front edges and in rooms where the worktop butts up to a wall this problem occurs when the room is sectioned and the worktop needs a height dimension. Hope this makes sense!
Regards
Brian
Try this. In LO, click and start a line. In the measurement box type in the real world measurement, say, 1000 followed by the'/' and then the scale factor. So, I want a scaled line of 1000 in a 1:10 drawing. Type '1000/10' enter. you have a scaled line. Not sure how that works for you 'Imperial' guys!
All the best
Brian
Hi,
I have been looking at the Excel table into LO thing (or lack of in the PC version). Here is my offering:
Create your table in Excel with cell widths, heights, font size and formulas. Make sure that any editable data can be copied and pasted as a block (for convenience).
Format a matching area in the spreadsheet as a swap area.
Select the entire table, copy and paste into LO. The table comes in as an editable text block with cells bordered in black lines.
Make any changes to data in individual cells. Note, no formulas are copied just the numbers.
Double click in the text box which will select all cell data.
Copy and then paste back into the Excel sheet but in the formatted swap area.
Select the data to be changed and paste into the original table position.
The formula results will update.
Start back at the beginning! Re-copy the updated table and double click in the LO text box, paste.
Not perfect but seems to work. Basically it is a way of re-calculating a table using Excel and not having to do it manually.
Brian