![]() ![]() If you want some help doing that, let me know and I will give you a hand. If you are going to continue with LayOut, which it sounds as if you will, you might find it worthwhile to spend a little time creating your own template(s). I'll save those for another post.Īndrew, i'm glad you got it all sorted out. It is a pretty good tool, but could use some more refinement. I'll leave the posts I made with all the questions I asked, even though a bit embarrassing, to assist others that might have the same issues when initially using SU & Layout. I have cleaned up the SU 3D Model to reflect many of your suggestions. ![]() Lastly, I was working from a presentation model, and got sloppy on the round column placement (I added grid lines as an afterthought, wrong way to model). Also, thanks for the heads up on the viewport & SU scenes. I am not sure why I had to select AutoScale for dimensions (seems like it should just be AutoScale automatically), but indeed, it is the process. On March 6, I issued my first Schematic Design package using SketchUp & Layout exclusively (something I have been wanting to do for many years). I know it has taken me a few weeks to reply, and show appreciation, but I am sincerely thankful. I really appreciate your quick response, and diligence on helping me understand how to use SU Layout in a more efficient manner. Here's a screen shot of one with a guidepoint placed at the center. Are they supposed to be? They are off by differing amounts. The columns in your model are not centered on the intersections of the grid. Don't worry about them being clean and nice looking. I say that because when I first started doing plans on Arch E paper, I was using the default 0.5 for the line weight and you could barely see the lines when printed. I'll guess that if you try printing out your sheet with the line weight set at 0.1, you won't be able to see the lines at all. If you catch yourself doing that, click outside the viewport to close it immediately and then hit Undo.īack to the line weight thing again. If you accidentally double click on a viewport and open it for editing, even if you don't make any changes, the viewport will be shown as modified. You can change the dimensions of the viewport without opening it to the model so if the scene doesn't fit in the viewport initially, you can drag the sides of the viewport as needed. If you need to change the zoom level or camera position, do that in SU, update the scene and then save. that you might make to the SU scene will no longer be translated to the viewport since the viewport is no longer related to that scene. Changes in camera position/zoom, style, etc. This effectively breaks the link between the original scene and the viewport. This indicates that you have opened the viewport for editing in SketchUp and moved the caamera or zoomed or made some other change. Don't ever leave a scene displaying as "Modified". If you go back to the SketchUp model to make changes and then save the file with a different scene displayed, you'll screw up your viewport. It's bad practice to use the Last saved as the scene selection. Notice that with the viewport selected, the scene is shown as (Modified) Last saved SketchUp Scene. I also noticed a few other things with your LO file that you should take care of. This is normally the way you want to place dimensions when you're dimensioning the SketchUp model. With Auto Scale selected the dimensions match what you get in SketchUp. ![]()
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