Hello Nick... I have a very similar way to work... But now after seeing your videos thousands times, I'm creating a new one by matching your way and mine =) In all of my projects I have always the same point of difficult: the stairs. The sections always cut them in the middle. How you deal with them?
Hi Nick, thanks for the reply. And yes I did notice that the scenes were being labeled "modified", Wich then causes an alignment issue in LO. I've since discovered that the zoom in SU needs to be the exact scale required in LO so that it imports at that scale. My scenes have always been aligned identically but no matter what I did, they would import at the wrong scale and then align incorrectly. Drawing the page extents in SU and zooming to this as you have suggested in the video helps but it's a bit of trial and error to achieve the exact scalded view. BTW I'm using sketch up 7- would that make a difference if I update?
+Peter Park I would upgrade for sure. Scale is only set in the Sketchup model Tray in Layout. In SU you simply want to try and center the element in the scene which is why zoom extents works so well.
Hi Nick! I'm an avid follower from the Philippines. I'm using sketchup for quite a long time. I've watch most of your videos and i'm learning a lot more than i've learned for the past years. Thank you for helping us all in our requirements for Construction Documents. I hope I can apply your ideas and style in my method. I just have one question in mind. How do you update all of your drawings in layout in an instant if you have revised your sketchup model. Since you separate most of your sketchup files categorically from Site plan model, Interior models, etc. Hope you can help me on this one. Thank you in advance.
Hi Gerald, It's simply a matter of dedicating a single SU file to editing. The others just reference that file. Once you get into that routine, you always remember to update the SU reference to the latest version.
Nick thanks for your videos Do you do everything in sketchup first and then bring it to layout or only do the annotations and dims in layout, I have been having trouble doing it the later way, everytime i want to add a dimension it goes behind the model or i have to realign the dims again, since I am in layout. it looks like double work for me, any suggestions>
You set up the scenes in Sketchup. Then import the Sketchup file into layout, assign it to a layer and select the scene you want to show. You only need to do this once. What is happening with your process is you are setting the model on a Layout layer that sits in front of the layer you are drawing dimensions. You also probably don't have the scene selected - it probably reads as "modified". You want that to be selected as the scene as named in Sketchup.
thanks i will try it again, i have been importing in default layer, and putting it behind all other, and putting dim in a new layout layer called dim, same for annotations. Scenes are selected after I import from SU, and then do all the work in dim/ anno or which ever layer I need to use. I noticed in your other videos, you have separate files for elevations, sections etc and you link it all up, is that purely for ease of use? I so far am not doing it, as i design and send to client for feedback, so many ways my projects evolve a lot. maintaining multiple files and constantly updating seems a time consuming process, but I can see the use of it.
Hi NIck, its only after seeing your videos have i started to experiment with documentation from Sketchup. When you copy a view, paste it and change it to the Line Work scene, it always for me changes the scale and thus not overlaying exactly. How do you avoid doing this? How are you able to insert drawings at an exact scale?
+Peter Park When you select the SketchUp model in LayOut, open the SketchUp dialog box to access options for displaying that model. One of the options is to turn on 'Ortho', and then you can also select a scale. Sometimes you will need to pick the correct scale again and reposition the views, but that's fairly simple to do and also where Nick's advice on creating scenes is very useful. Good luck!
Hi Peter, the key here is to make sure your scenes in SU are aligned identical. Otherwise they will shift. If they are off scale, then the scene in LO will be labeled as "modified". You need to make sure they are not modified.
thank you Architect Nick!! learned alot..
When i duplicate a page whatever i change on the first one it updates the second, how do i make the second page unique?
Hello Nick... I have a very similar way to work... But now after seeing your videos thousands times, I'm creating a new one by matching your way and mine =)
In all of my projects I have always the same point of difficult: the stairs. The sections always cut them in the middle. How you deal with them?
How Do you show to cut stairs in floor? draw apart?
Hi Nick, thanks for the reply. And yes I did notice that the scenes were being labeled "modified", Wich then causes an alignment issue in LO. I've since discovered that the zoom in SU needs to be the exact scale required in LO so that it imports at that scale. My scenes have always been aligned identically but no matter what I did, they would import at the wrong scale and then align incorrectly. Drawing the page extents in SU and zooming to this as you have suggested in the video helps but it's a bit of trial and error to achieve the exact scalded view. BTW I'm using sketch up 7- would that make a difference if I update?
+Peter Park I would upgrade for sure. Scale is only set in the Sketchup model Tray in Layout. In SU you simply want to try and center the element in the scene which is why zoom extents works so well.
Hi Nick! I'm an avid follower from the Philippines. I'm using sketchup for quite a long time. I've watch most of your videos and i'm learning a lot more than i've learned for the past years. Thank you for helping us all in our requirements for Construction Documents. I hope I can apply your ideas and style in my method.
I just have one question in mind.
How do you update all of your drawings in layout in an instant if you have revised your sketchup model. Since you separate most of your sketchup files categorically from Site plan model, Interior models, etc.
Hope you can help me on this one.
Thank you in advance.
Hi Gerald,
It's simply a matter of dedicating a single SU file to editing. The others just reference that file. Once you get into that routine, you always remember to update the SU reference to the latest version.
What you are doing?
Nick thanks for your videos Do you do everything in sketchup first and then bring it to layout or only do the annotations and dims in layout, I have been having trouble doing it the later way, everytime i want to add a dimension it goes behind the model or i have to realign the dims again, since I am in layout. it looks like double work for me, any suggestions>
You set up the scenes in Sketchup. Then import the Sketchup file into layout, assign it to a layer and select the scene you want to show. You only need to do this once. What is happening with your process is you are setting the model on a Layout layer that sits in front of the layer you are drawing dimensions. You also probably don't have the scene selected - it probably reads as "modified". You want that to be selected as the scene as named in Sketchup.
thanks i will try it again, i have been importing in default layer, and putting it behind all other, and putting dim in a new layout layer called dim, same for annotations. Scenes are selected after I import from SU, and then do all the work in dim/ anno or which ever layer I need to use. I noticed in your other videos, you have separate files for elevations, sections etc and you link it all up, is that purely for ease of use? I so far am not doing it, as i design and send to client for feedback, so many ways my projects evolve a lot. maintaining multiple files and constantly updating seems a time consuming process, but I can see the use of it.
Hi NIck, its only after seeing your videos have i started to experiment with documentation from Sketchup. When you copy a view, paste it and change it to the Line Work scene, it always for me changes the scale and thus not overlaying exactly. How do you avoid doing this? How are you able to insert drawings at an exact scale?
+Peter Park
When you select the SketchUp model in LayOut, open the SketchUp dialog box to access options for displaying that model. One of the options is to turn on 'Ortho', and then you can also select a scale.
Sometimes you will need to pick the correct scale again and reposition the views, but that's fairly simple to do and also where Nick's advice on creating scenes is very useful. Good luck!
Hi Peter, the key here is to make sure your scenes in SU are aligned identical. Otherwise they will shift. If they are off scale, then the scene in LO will be labeled as "modified". You need to make sure they are not modified.
how'd you do that plan line work?
Thanks for all of your great content, it's a great learning tool.
how do I change my page number? A1.0-1.15 to A2.0 and so on.
Thanks.
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Use autotext in layout. You can establish the prefix then it numbers automatically for both page number and detail reference keys.
hi sir. there a possibly a can able to create a coloured floor plan true skethcup but through rendering.
Mark Decamon yes
Mark Decamon plugin
Need layer filtering and faster renderer..its totally bottle neck in workflow..
Please change this video use someone more enthusiastic , and he not even going slow enough for people to understand
No intro? Just start in the middle? Bad presentation form.
Hi Igor, sorry out of the context of the series I understand. This is one video that is a part of a series of several.