SU as LO alternative – a mockup – Function Requests

Thanks to your suggestion. For me that’s no actual resolution as that will break the hyperlink between mannequin and second output/drafting.

I do issues in LO and SU proper now and it fits me. Simply needed to enhance in that workflow and keep away from LO if potential.

The part-way execution of that’s to do what ever drawing, even 2D drawing, in SketchUp earlier than sending it to Structure. For instance, I’d quite draw door swings in SU and put them on a Layer/Tag that solely reveals up in plan view than draw them in Structure. If I can preserve my work in LO to simply inserting a viewport and including notes and dimensions, it’s tolerable.

I strongly agree together with your evaluation / feedback about Trimble and their ‘growth’ of SU/LO over time – as such as you, I’ve held regular making a steady working workflow with SU Professional 2021 and have ended my autorenewal for the subscription this 12 months (subscribed since 2018).

My PrettyPrint extension can provide you higher PDF output. It means that you can management line width, colour, and form (spherical or sq. ends and joins) primarily based on the road’s colour in SketchUp.

I developed this to output plumbing plans for big initiatives (e.g. a 540 unit house tower) that Structure simply can’t deal with. Comply with the hyperlink on PrettyPrint’s EW web page to my Wix website for extra data.

Are you able to select totally different line widths for each tag? Or the road width is similar for your entire mannequin?

Only for readability – Structure permits line widths to be set by Tag.

I do know, however I used to be asking if the plugin fairly print can do this.

I believed you’d – that’s why I wrote “only for readability”

Line parameters are set by colour, not tag. I take advantage of tags to manage visibility of objects.

Dave

This jogs my memory of the times when utilizing AutoCad, (1988 R9) we had to make use of scaled sheets drawn in mannequin area. I had varied scaled sheets for plans vs particulars. All objects have been drawn at 1:1. Some corporations would preserve the sheets the identical scale, and would change the objects scale. I might get initiatives despatched to me that have been completely complicated. Then AutoCad invented “viewports”, whole recreation changer.

I see a number of folks making an attempt to resolve the 3D mannequin to 2D doc puzzle. My query is why?
The SketchUp base camps are filled with corporations that focus extra on utilizing 3D of their condocs. Clearly some issues like plans, some elevations and such are higher in 2D, however some elevation, sections, and definitely particulars may be higher in 3D.

Once I left AutoCad for SketchUp, the perfect wasn’t to tug the 2D mindset right into a 3D workflow. The aim was to REPLACE a 2D solely workflow with a 3D workflow, solely utilizing 2D when it communicated the intent and knowledge higher or simpler than 3D might.

Condoc instruments could also be a straightforward approach to transition a mission from SketchUp to LayOut, but it surely’s simply as straightforward to construct and coordinate each SketchUp and LayOut templates to work in tandom utilizing the native instruments in each software program’s. My templates insert, fill out, textual content, and replace robotically. A bit of time and analysis will train these abilities.

I agree that the format API as promised on the 2016 basecamp, however later withdrawn was laborious felt by the neighborhood. Possibly Trimble will keep in mind why so many people left Autocad, and proper course.