I just sent a SketchUp model to LayOut, and am having issues with the way it is transferring over.
For context, I am working on a design drawing for a bathroom with a complex tile pattern. I modeled the tile, and added it onto the vanity wall. I added the fixtures, including a faucet that is set right in front of the tile, and finished the model. Everything looked great. I sent the vanity wall view to LayOut, rendered it in vector, and for some reason, the pattern seems to be “leaking” into the faucet profile. I have no idea why this is happening, I have tried moving the faucet forward, exploding the wall tile pattern, and nothing worked.
I tried uploading the files, but they are too large, so I will add screenshots. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?
Thank you for replying! I just uploaded the link on my post. On raster, it looks like the issue does go away, but I prefer vector due to print quality.
With Vector and Hybrid rendering, oddities in the lines are often caused by the model being located far from the SketchUp model origin, or very large model extents. LayOut is even ,more sensitive to this than SketchUp.
It looks like it’s showing hidden geometry of the taps. If the orthogonal view is deactivated, it can be better appreciated, what is seen is not the frame of the wall. It is very strange.
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It does look like that but it’s not. If you tag the tile group in the SU model and turn the tag off in LO, those little lines don’t show on the taps.
This isn’t unusal with highly detailed geometry that is effectively very close together for this sort of bleed through… It’s not difficult to work around, though. I added tags as you can see in the GIF, above, and set the top viewport to show the faucets, rendered as Hybrid instead of Vector. The tiles, walls, and other stuff are shown in the viewport below but not the faucets.I also reduced the line scale for the Tiles tag.
I’m a little surprized to see the walls, mirrors, and case work are all loose geometry in your model. It would be easier to work with if you were using components and groups for the different objects and adding tags to them to give you more control in LayOut.
Thank you so much! I am still new to LayOut, and I’ve tried using groups before, but I was a little confused on how to use them. I had no idea that you could change line scale of certain tags. This has definitely showed me how important it is for me to learn, and I really appreciate your help!
You should take time to learn both SketchUp and LayOut. You will save yourself a lot of time and frustration if you do.
As for groups and components, those are used to provide separation between objects in the model. Then you can give tags to the groups and components. Once you are in LayOut you can set Line Scale for tags as I did, above. You can also set things like dash styles and line color by tag in LayOut. There are many other ways you can leverage the use of components, groups, and tags. One example is to show different wall sconce options.
