Noting that If I have a digital survey then I’ll also be able to export existing grade/ topo in elevation and section. will be manipulating plan quite likely so when brought back into cad will use as underlay to update the cad plan…Įxport scenes of as-built elevations back into cad format (showing window and door Rough openings only). Manipulate 3d model to get roofs and plans working… general look and feel and constructability. skp as underlay and quickly (hopefully) generate as-built elevations… albeit with only one lineweight when brought back into cad. So, to generate as-built plans thinking draw in cad.Įxport cad plans to. So, thinking now that I’m going to have to use cad to draw my floorplans since I’m planning on using cad to create my sheets… for the time being. dwg directly from Sketchup.Īs expected all lines on 0 layer and all white… ok.īut this pretty much tells me that whatever I import from sketchup is not going to have any useful layer information so lineweights are out the window. So, remembered I could export a scene (2d). Black screen both cad and sketchup as best I remember. I have a 4 week long short fuse residential project that I’m thinking I might be able to pull off using sketchup/ Layout… if I start today!)Įxported Layout from LO (not a large file) to dwg. dwg files be ready to hand off to engineers?Īlso thinking I would probably (for the time being) want to dimension and notate in autocad… depending on how intuitive and capable sketchup/ LO is.Īny insight into your workflow is appreciated (including what you have already shared). What about consultants? If I copy/paste from sketchup into model space will those. I typically use lineweights assigned to layers and have ditched plot styles but could go back there as required. Not sure how to deal with lineweights and plot styles etc though. Thinking if I could generate everything 2d in sketchup and/ or layout (floor plans, elevations, details etc) I could export these in 2D to model space and use my sheet layouts in cad to crop viewports etc.) My sheet layouts… at least until I get completely comfortable with LO. The ability to scale and crop fully detailed building/ wall sections and turn them into individual details (with scaled hatches etc). The scaling ability of hatches, linetypes etc for various scales You sort of hit on a few reasons for doing that but in reality what are the ONLY(?) reasons you would need to export to cad in the first place? Working with consultants comes to mind.Īlong these lines wondering if I were to do my detailing (I do a LOT of this) in sketchup… (can this be done 2d) what I’d be missing from cad. So you did/ do all of your elevations, sections & detailing in sketchup and import 2d versions of the sketchup model into cad? Sounds like i need to take a hard look at layout and it’s capabilities! Might be easier for me now but it was killing me. If I’m gonna do that guess I’m going back to give Revit another try… but would love to not have to bang my head against that any more lol. Yes, not interested in using a 3d model in autocad. I have a good project I’m starting now that could be a good fit to incorporate sketchup into the workflow… but it has a short fuse and I’m a little leary… but not completely ready to shy away if someone can give me a little encouragement for moving that direction… I’d be willing to give it a shot. But I did get through a huge learning curve over the last couple of weeks with sketchup (Modeled an as built house, created a site plan for a small development, created scenes and templates, exported out scenes and movies for incorporation into some literature etc etc… )Yeah I’m kind of gloating hehe (waiting for the crash and burn now)… but my point really is that if I was able to figure out sketchup (intuitively enough) then I’m hopeful about learning to use layout as well. Yes, the segments were broken (now I know why lol) but was able to use the elevations for a good portion of my elevations. I have exported out of sketchup in the past some elevations that others have generated in sketchup and was actually quite happy with things for the most part. Do pretty much everything related to construction documents but kind of specialize in detailing.
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