hi, in this video i'd like to show you someuseful tips to make presentations with sketch-up and layout; and how to print large drawingson multiple a4 pages. some of the tools i am using including the layout applicationitself are only available in the pro version of skechup. to do this i'll open this 3d model that idownloaded from the warehouse and i'll start displaying a tool bar with the most commonlyused tools.to do this, go to view / toolbars and select large tool set. now i will prepare the model for making somepresentations, first i will select the edge style for a better visual aspect, we go again to view / edge style, and mark only the edge option.
i am going to soften a bit the edgestoo using the soften edges tool. the next step is to color it using the painttool. now i'll duplicate the model with the movetool pressing control while i move it. sketch up will show us now guidelines to help uskeeping the component in the desired axis. what i want to do is to extrude one of thecopies and draw some dimensions on it. select the top view and parallel perspectiveto make easy the work and the understanding of the steps to perform. again with the movetool, displace 50mm all the parts. once they are selected you can enter the distance with the keyboard and press enter to get the desired position.
now i can start to create scenes, first theiso view. then select the parallel projection and make scenes for each view. i am gonna change the scene transitions tomake them faster. 1 second is ok for me. in the exploded copy, i am gonna change thelayer of every part in order to make printed templates. select the component, then right-clickand model info. hide parts we you need, select the desiredview and create more scenes to your liking. i will also create 3d model exploded scenesfor a better understanding of the drawings. create a new layer for dimensions and thenselect the dimension tool. you can do this in layout too, i'll show you later how to.
save now the project and click on file / sendto layout, which will open the second application i want to talk about. select the paper size,i am gonna use now an a4. i will remove the background going to skechupmodel / styles / background. adapt the viewport to the paper size, as you can see, by double-clicking here you can enter to the 3d model to change the view. select the text tool for naming it. with these buttons you can add new pages andmove through them. i'll duplicate the first one using control c and then control v. then right-click and select the next scene we've created before in skechup.
as you can see, if i do not select a scale,the model moves with the viewport. so i'll select a valid scale for this a4. edit thename and style, i like to use the x ray. i am gonna draw now some dimensions for theviews, we can choose mm or meters. they are so easy to do with layout too. repeat thisprocess for all the views. we can also insert multiple windows with detailson the same page. save the file, go to file / export, and wecan export to image, dxf or as in my case, pdf. here we can alsochoose to export all pages or individual.
and this is how the file looks. go back to sketch up and click send to layoutagain to generate the printable templates, as it will be a different size of paper i'llneed a new file. select the scene you made before, place it and rotate it. as it is bigger than an a3 go to file / document setup / paper where i can choose a custom paper, i am gonnamake mine bigger in one direction. copy the viewport, select other view. go back to document setup and select print document grid. the grid won't print if it is not checked. here we can also select the color or spacing of
the grid. move it towards one of the lines so once printed, it can be cut. it is easier if we set the snap off. going to arrange / grid snap / off name it and draw the dimensions. we can also write notes with the label tool and if wehold down after select we can create curvedlines. export and check the if the pdf is ok, toprint it on several a4 is very simple: choose your printer, click on poster and make surethe scale is as 100% here we can see the layout of the pages, whenprinted we'll only have to put them together
by matching the grid. last i'll show you another great advantageof this method. any change you make in the model will update the layout file, when yousave the document. so you only have to generate
sketchup for 3d printing tutorial,again the pdf files and there's no need torepeat the complete process from the beginning. actually there are multiple ways to performthese tasks, after trying a few i ended up using this method, which for me, is the bestand faster. but any other one can be as good if the result is the same and it doesn't takemuch time.
