Adding colour to a wireframe style viewport in layout

[SuzanneGreenLD]

Hi
I have created a landscape plan in SU. I used the wireframe style to convert it to black and white and sent to layout to add all my measurement. All great.

Now I want to add some colour back to the planting areas? How do I do this?

If I convert the style it seems I can only have all in colour or all in black and white. Is there a way to mix the two?

Thanks so much.

[bmike]

It would be helpful to see an example - screenshot or post a file.

1. Color only what you want in SKP? Use a style with textures / color turned on?

Or maybe:

2. Copy the sketchup model view in LayOut, put it on a new Layer. Set the rendering to vector. Explode the model view. Color the exploded shapes as needed, using transparency. Adjust as required. If the layer is higher in the list than your original view the transparent colors will show through what is below. If you need crisp line work to be in too, consider then a hidden line or wireframe view that can also be copied and placed on top.

[RTCool]

Do you mean diagrammatic color, or the natural colors and textures of the model?

I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but I find SU’s colors too deep and saturated sometimes for orthographic line drawings, so I stack two layers, one raster with color below, and one with linework exploded as @bmike described above, plus a scrim layer in between. On the scrim layer just draw a rectangle with white fill, no line pattern and then play with the opacity of the white fill. The lines jump out while the colors are there, but more muted.

Scrim layer off:

Scrim layer on:

[bmike]

I do the scrim layer as well… often in SKP now as I rarely render in vector for general work, so raster (and hybrid if needed) work fine.