I swear I spent at least 15 minutes googling this with out success before posting here.
I have a site model that I want to spread across 4 plans in Layout. In order to do this I wanted to create 4 scenes in Sketchup. Each scene was suppose to be a top-down view in the plan but ROTATED to match the most prominent build of that plan. The buildings are not aligned to Sketchups-World-axis.
I tried setting up some help-rectangles of how I want the plan to look like but the command “align view” just looks at it from the top without rotating the plan. Tried finding a plugin but no success. How can I rotate the camera precisely?
I would just set up a cube aligned the way you want it and then set the axis to the cube. Then go to plan view and save the scene. Do that for each plan view you require and when you select that scene the various views will follow.
Simply ‘align view’ with a face, then use the ‘relative top view’ option from the camera dropdown menu. This will set your top view aligned with the selected face (as shown in the sample video at the extension warehouse).
Thanks everybody for all the methods that solves this particular itch. Ok - I tried everything and Eneroth Relative Top View is my favorite because I hate fiddling with Axis.
@paddyclown showed me yet another trick that I wasn’t aware of. He rotates the view on Layout (rather easy in Layout 2025 now that we have a proper rotating tool) and then draws a clipping mask over it. I was NOT AWARE that Layout has clipping masks. So cool! Now I can finally do a round call out!
Two problems solved with one question. Time to call it a day!
