Sometimes I discover myself having to import second drawings I made in SU right into a pdf. My reply is to transform the pdf to a jpeg, and open it with paint, or paint.internet, so I can clear up the plan, erase stuff, or insert SU drawings. If I attempt to open the jpeg in SU it has misplaced plenty of element ( 24 x 36) and it’s tough to do as a result of SU typically desires to place a border across the object. Nor does it have the choice to work with the pixels of the jpeg.
I additionally don’t wish to redraw the entire plan into SU, although which may be an excellent possibility.
I do know SU is probably not the only option for 2D drawings, however it’s the program I understand how to make use of, and don’t really need an prolonged studying curve on a special program.
Any pointers about how to do that that you’ve discovered?
G
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To get a plan from SketchUp to PDF I might ship it to LayOut and annotate it there, and export on to PDF.
As to raster picture codecs, with the form of views that SketchUp creates, PNG is a greater export format than JPG/JPEG. The latter is designed for pictures, and its compression algorithm creates ugly artifacts and blur when processing photos with areas of uniform color and contours.
Why in all world would you wish to import SketchUp-created raster photos again into SketchUp? Can’t you edit the unique SketchUp “drawing” as an alternative?
On this case, we’re working off an previous set of paper plans. I had them scanned into PDF, and wish to alter them to go well with the venture, which is the addition of an elevator, remodeling and masking the atrium with skylights and a roof, and changing the maids room into an train room. It hardly appear price tracing the entire home, some 5 or 6 sheets, reasonably merely replace the areas the modifications are being made. An alternative choice, paying for CAD as-builts, was ditched because of the $5k price ticket.
Since I can’t edit the pdfs, I transformed them to JPEGs.
I didn’t know png. information are higher than JPEG, thanks.
I’ve a like / hate relationship with format. Possibly I want a brilliant laptop as a result of it tends to decelerate as I add in pages, particularly pictures. If I get a reference fallacious it goes to hell, and there are a great deal of strains to the highest left nook.
I’m not certain how you bought this concept: “Why in all world would you wish to import SketchUp-created raster photos again into SketchUp?” Maybe I wasn’t clear. Sorry G
OK – I didn’t get that it was all about scanned previous plans. Sure, PNG is certainly higher than JPG for these.
It’s because SketchUp treats raster photos primarily as materials textures, and it downsamples all imported photos to slot in a 1024 x 1024 pixel rectangle (2048 or 4096 when you’ve got the “use most texture dimension” field ticked in Preferenced>OpenGL). This may be circumvented with TIGs (if I bear in mind proper) Massive Picture Splitter extension. LayOut doesn’t have this limitation.
So many factors to hit on right here. Longtime PC person, first time on this thread (lol). I can actually assist you out, I’ve fairly a little bit of expertise with working with as-builts.
On the subject of working with MS Paint to simply erase parts of your picture and annotating, that is the way in which to go in your case except you wish to use a complicated picture editor to make your annotations look prettier! I at all times default to MS Paint requirements at any time when doable (I’ve truly been fairly profitable at making symbols and drawing an idea plan with it).
This results in the subsequent vital level: Format is THE BEST (newfound) program for making printables. I’ve used AutoCAD to take advantage of good title blocks, and so forth. and I nonetheless am in love, it’s simply gonna take me some time to return from this love affair I’m having with Format now. The one downside I’ve with Format is the grid not snapping PERFECTLY everytime once I create a brand new title block
BUT I CAN DEAL, simply. Format is the perfect. All of “la perfection” was supposed to be contained within the SKP. I agree that anntotating with Format is a worthy possibility (for extra handy use of symbols). Keep away from JPEG if the picture is meant to be CAD-use worthy or not supposed to “final in perpetuity” because the picture high quality “degrades everytime you view it” although I might confirm that.
On the subject of the retracing, it could rely upon what your constructing division requires for a allow and based mostly on what you talked about, an excellent motive to return to AutoCAD; like concrete and rebar you may by no means add sufficient dimensions to your plans like you may by no means add sufficient rebar to concrete!
Lastly, I might save ever Format sheet as its personal file, they’re solely a couple of half “MEG” to some “MEGS” at most!
I take advantage of each ms paint and paint.internet to change photos. As an example – I took a paper plan and had it scanned, opened the PDF of a plan, with adobe acrobat pro9, saved it as a PNG. In MS paint I cropped the picture and saved it. Then I opened that in paint.internet and cleaned up the picture with the clone device and so forth. to take away parts I didn’t need. I imported that in to SU, scaled it, and drew the (n) roof and wall (it’s a piece). I imported the picture into LO, and labeled it, saved it as a PDF, mixed it with 16 different sheets in Adobe pro9 and emailed it out.
In a while I needed to edit it, as a result of the roof pitch modified, and the skylights needed to be deleted.
I opened it in paint.internet to take away stuff, and reimported it again to SU, and redrew the revised wall and roof. Then despatched it again to LO. Edited a pair pages of the 17 web page pdf, then deleted out some pages, and recombined the brand new sheets with adobe acrobat pro9, and despatched it out.
It labored properly, although I want that paint.internet had the tape measure device to align stuff. Nobody program does all of it, so I used 5 when you depend LO and SU as 2. I attempted to do a few of it with photoshop ps6 to no avail. Paint.internet works higher for my makes use of.
G
In my earlier reply, I wrote “hold it ‘FUNNER’!” however the reply after that the place I promoted my artwork was deleted. Irrespective of and I meant to make use of the right spelling, “hold it enjoyable” however I digress. I’ve used Adobe Acrobat Professional however I discovered the subscription too costly. If I had an structure agency, I might discover it indispensable as a result of they use so many sheets. CutePDF is a good device for easy insertions/DELETIONS of PDF sheets and Adobe PDF instruments on-line as properly.
Once I began out, I attempted to get as massive a breadth of instruments as doable and did fairly properly however now I’m discovering myself retooling, such as you, in order that the workflow is quicker reasonably than smarter (for repeatability); this has helped me extremely in innovating as of late. So my suggestion is to maintain whippin’ the blueballpoint because it had been and never get too into the weeds so far as the tremendous specialised/technical elements of the software program YET. Maybe sometime when these workflows are “set in stone” it’ll be doable to match notes on what’s extra environment friendly and or enjoyable however for now, I’m simply specializing in pace, that’s, getting stuff onto paper! Godspeed!
Adobe professional 9 and photoshop cs6 are the final standalone variations – no subscriptions. Had I guessed the greenback would develop into nugatory, I might have upgraded to su 2020, fool me.
