For example I am drawing an electronic module housing very similar to a fire alarm panel, with a display panel with buttons and LCD. The bigger problem is with text and graphics I have added to the model in Sketchup. I’m not sure I’ll ever find where they went, so am simply adding them again.
The missing labels and dimensions were done in Layout. I used Sketchup for large projects and is worth every penny.
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There are props and const of each one but for sending it as CNC, what I tent to do is a export as section slice in Sketchup (create a section plane in the exact point you want the CNC, and export it under file export and just use the Layout as a PDF construction doc. The render of the Sketchup file is raster but you can change it to vector or hybrid, (selecting the model and go to your tray, where it said, Sketchup model, and change it there). If you did it in Layout but didn’t refer that model to a particular Sketchup scene, maybe the dims and labels anchor when all mixed up! I’m not sure if I fully understood but are those dimensions and labels done inside Sketchup or inside Layout? Just try to keep all the notes and dimension in Layout, a lot easier to control then. A mix of creating your scenes in Sketchup and move then nicely around your layout page (sometimes with snap on or off, depends) Lining up the model is a matter of practise. We’re not a mechanical design house and only do a few simple little drawings each year, so would struggle to justify the cost… I’d appreciate any comments on this, however frank they are, as I am losing a lot of time on this and need to decide ASAP whether this is a suitable tool, or whether I should be by a solidworks license. I’m wondering if I have completely misunderstood Sketchup Pro - is it little more than a 3D sketching tool (as indeed the name implies…) This means no one can lift dimensions electronically from the file, for example for programming a CNC machine. However if I export a dxf or dwg from Layout it appears as an embedded bitmap. I just want to be able to issue 2D engineering drawings, as normal vector drawings (e.g. I’ve also just realised that the model is rendered as a bitmap in Layout, which seems pretty disastrous to me. I guess I could design all labels in another package like Illustrator, and import them as images, however that would mean all the fonts are rasterised, and editing them becomes messy.
This is a show-stopper for me, as we need to include things like label designs. Text is the worst, typically the font size reduces to about 2/3, and the text moves (I suspect that one corner of the text window is in the right place, but because the font size changes so much the text placement moves with it). Text and graphics from the sketchup model still jump about.
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I cannot work out how to position the model to line up with the Layout grid, though hopefully if I persevere I can.ĭimensions and labels that I add do appear to stay put, however there is no sign of any of the many labels and dimensions I added before upgrading to 2015 - I guess I have to start again? Many thanks, makes sense, I’m now using scenes.Īt least now the scaling stays put at 1:1, however it doesn’t appear to have helped with my other problems. We don’t do enough of it to justify buying a Solidworks license, and Sketchup Pro seemed a sensible alternative. Have I just misunderstood the basics of sketchup and layout and am expecting too much of it? I’m after a mechanical engineering cad tool that can generate proper mechanical and graphical designs and manufacturing drawings. For example the text jumps around as I zoom in and out. The sketchup model includes things like text (drawn as text labels), images (imported from pngs etc), and face colors, and these often go a bit screwy in Layout. Similarly I keep having to mess with the position to get the 2D view of the model central in my A4 drawing boarder. It takes two attempts to get the scaling back to 1:1 - the first time I change it to 1:1 it jumps to 1:2, and I change it to 1:1 again and it finally goes to 1:1. Any idea what could cause this?Įach time I open the layout file, or reload the skp file, the scaling and position of the sketchup model changes, with the scaling always seeming to jump to something like 1.93432:1. I had added lots of dimensions and labels to the layout view, and these have all disappeared when I load the. I have modelled it as a flat XY plane in sketchup, then done a drawing in Layout to send to the manufacturers. The design is of a panel membrane label to go on the front of a fire alarm panel, with a window for the display, navkey buttons, and graphics (text and logos).
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Having done a design in sketchup and layout using the trial version of sketchup pro 2014, I have now bought a 2015 license, upgraded, and am having various problems. Hi, hopefully these are silly newbie problems as I’m on a steep learning curve.
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