Adding symbols for continuation in a drawing

[Tim_E]

Hello. I’m curious if there’s a smart way to show continuation in a detail? I am mostly drawing decks and porches added to existing homes for permits.

For example, I usually draw the detail in 2d and add in the continue symbol/s into the grouped parts where needed.

Sometimes I draw a giant 3d continuation symbol and move it in front of the 3d model already drawn, and hide the part I don’t want to show

But as I try to make things fit in the layout page I often need to go back to sketchup and tweak. After a bit my sketchup scenes have become all willy-nilly. I feel like I’m spending far too much time on this part of my drawing. I know there isn’t a silver bullet to my rambling issue.

Thanks for any advice you my have. Tim

[DaveR]

I add break lines frequently in LayOut. There’s no need to create special “broken” objects in SketchUp for this. I’ve drawn different styles of break lines in LO and created a scrapbook of them so I can drag them out onto the page.

Here’s an example. In this case three viewports using the same scene with the edges of each viewport dragged inward to crop the view and then break lines inserted at the gaps.

If you are adding dimensions, note that you can dimension across viewports.

This shows the entire part from the SketchUp model

[Tim_E]

Thanks for replying,looks really slick! I’m going to experiment with that technique.

I rarely draw anything in layout…are the continue lines in your scrapbook different lengths? Sometimes I would need an 8" line, other times 30’. Not factoring in scale obviously

[DaveR]

I have a couple of different lengths of break lines but they can be adjusted for length. These days I mostly use one of the ones on the bottom with the white fill.

I made one of them as a scaled drawing as an experiment but I found it’s not that useful for my work.

Here’s another example.

[cakrupp]

@Tim_E

slick

My initial thought is to draw the break lines in Sketch up and insert them in a scrapbook layout doc to create the various types you want. With the ability n layout to edit the line you should get away with just one breakline

[DaveR]

@cakrupp

My initial thought is to draw the break lines in Sketch up and insert them in a scrapbook layout doc to create the various types you want.

That works if you don’t mind the segmented curves and bloating the LO file with more .skp references. They aren’t difficult to draw in LayOut and have less impact on LayOut file size.