Hello,
I m a structural engineer thrilled by sketchup. I developed many ways to use it in my design but I m wondering if anyone can help me.
First, I use layout but not so often, as for me it s much quicker to use autocad platform.
And I tried to obtain all the data for the drawing from the sketchup model.
For example, for a wooden structure I name all my components specifically beams, columns, bracing, etc. I found a very good tool called number components, it offers me something close to what I want. It creates texts for each selected component and I can select to show me the definition n of the components.
The only problem is that it is putting the text only in Top view, so I have to extract each wall, rotate it in top view and after number all the components. That cost time. After that, all the 3D texts are with the same horizontal orientation, I would have preferred for example to orient the text after the direction of the element and let s say after the length of the component.
I m sure that for a smart programmer it could be easy to make things work First to have a text for components that comes in the plane where the elevation is made, and than to have it with orientation.
This way I can make scenes with each wall, number the comonents and expot them to dwg. By the way, the export to dwg is very poor as all lines are in the same layer but I use Skalp and it exports sectioned elements as polylines with their individual tag.
Hope the pictures attached are visible.
Hello,
Maybe you can try the Drawing feature of OpenCutList extension.
It allows you to draw all or portion of a project with fully customizable labels.
And you can export these drawing to Layout.
Thank you, It s a wonderful tool, but not quite what I want in this case. I was amazed when I saw the first time a presentation of the extension, a few days ago. But i need something to use with CAD export, not layout.
You can try @curic4su Single-Line Text
Then you can try my extension, it got all of your needs.
- Labeling selected components by Camera direction
- Export AutoCAD with Layers
- And much more…
There is a free trial in 30 days with subscribe license but without Curic Single Line Text (the plugin creates text for Components), which is included with permanent License.
Exporting to AutoCAD while maintain layers, origin and units.
yesterday I watched at your tutorials, AutoTag is already installed :)). I have your 5D+ on my wish list but I was waiting for blackfriday to see if you apply any discount :)). Not that all your work isn t worth all the money, because it s something incredible what you did
I do have single line text, it works quite well as you said. Thank you. But how can you label multiple selection of components by one click? Because it s a problem if you have to put one by one
I’m afraid it’s not possible. You can use label tool from 3skeng. It tags a lot of components at the same time.