Dear Sketchup,
Please, please, please add a decent hatching tool to Sketchup. I use Skalp but that is quite buggy…Oh and line weights ![]()
Thanks in advance!
Dear Sketchup,
Please, please, please add a decent hatching tool to Sketchup. I use Skalp but that is quite buggy…Oh and line weights ![]()
Thanks in advance!
(Moved to Feature Requests category.)
I wonder if this would be a tool or a style setting.
Wondering because the current section cut face color is a style setting. But this is global at this time.
It certainly would be an easier workflow if section cut faces could be hatch painted with a tool like the bucket tool. (Maybe a section brush tool?)
In an earlier discussion I suggested that a vector hatch option could be added to SketchUp materials, using the same kind of .pat files used by Autodesk and other CAD applications. Then a style setting could determine whether SketchUp would display the hatch pattern or colour/texture.
Because .skm files are a zip container adding pattern files or SVG or whatever would be easy.
I’d think that older SketchUp versions would just ignore anything inside the archives that they didn’t expect. ![]()
If it’s simple 'decent ’ hatching for in Layout, i.e. vector, then I discovered this discussion at Skectucation:
https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=66503
I’m not suggesting it’s necessarily a solution for everyone… (it works for me)
And as for lineweights, then if it’s for Layout, you could look into Mike Brightman’s method of stacked viewports in Layout.
Hi Paul, I tried all sorts of “workarounds” but, I think, this should be a standard tool as Sketchup wants to present itself as “all you need” as an architect. I get details and sections cuts how they should be drawn in the end, but it still is a struggle. Let’s be honest, Layout is still too buggy an way to slow to do with what it should do, but yes I 've found “workarounds”. I love SU, for more than 18 years, but it just needs that tiny perfection to become a complete tool for architects, interior architects and designers.
Or add a pattern generator to the forgotten StyleBuilder App
I second that… It’s one of most frustrating things when creating architectural plans to not be able to create proper vector hatches. I use Skalp also but it’s so slow and buggy that it’s frustrating to work with… Even just adding an option to use material on section cuts would be a big improvement already.
Please learn from Skalp and build a native solution.
adding styles to SB would be handy…
it’s only ever been an ‘raster’ edge builder with limited usefulness…
john
I believe the hatching should be a Layout feature with the option to dynamically link hatch patterns to SketchUp materials, Sketchup tags, and Layout layers.
Exactly!
Yes I agree - this would be valuable. So Concrete in SketchUp looks like a rendered material, but in LO it look slike a hatch pattern.
Or a how about a new type of Face Style, so we would have:
Wireframe
Hidden Line
Shaded
Shaded with Hatches
Shaded with Textures
Monochrome
Or, make the Shaded mode include hatches/patterns?
Contemplating this a little more, I would actually be content if there was a Standard set of hatch patterns of a really good quality - maybe a set with Landscape, Architecture and Engineering patterns, all High-res and with some customisation (colour, reverse, etc).
Not sure where it fits into this discussion but a lot of options are missing from LO including the patterns that get applied to things like Fences, Insulation, Walls, etc. These are “complex” line styles are often displayed as a hatch. (Usually I make them with custom rotated hatch patterns, but it’s an annoying process).
Still no hatching options for section fills in Layout 2021! ![]()
But thank god they changed the SketchUp logo! (grmpff)
By marking it as a solved thread, the FR get’s lost…
This needs to happen ASAP. Not that difficult surely. Sketchup is presented as architectural design software and it lacks this crucial capability. Such a shame.