With 2019, we got a new feature > Export for SketchUp in the DWG/DXF menu in LayOut. I’m curious what workflows people would use to take advantage of this feature? In what situations would you start something inside LayOut in 2D, then export to SketchUp to continue in 3D? I’m sure there are some goo…

I’ve read this thread twice now and still have no idea what this setting does. Does it export everything in paper space, regardless of whether it’s a viewport or not? Does it keep paper space and model space as two separate things but with the same value? How is this making SketchUp play better with…

Or is it adding some extra metadata, ignored by other programs but used by SketchUp to know how to import the drawing?

When I saw first saw this feature I also didn’t understand the logic of using the file format from a competitor to import LO back into SU knowing you can read LO files with the ruby API and easily can create native SU entitites!

I will try to summarize this so that all comments are addressed. In 2017 we added the ability to export LO entities to Acad placing LO entities to Paper Space and SU to the Model Space. Sense then we have had a number of requests to bring back the ability to export all entities both LO and SU to the…

Trent So is there any difference in LO created arcs/curves/circles/splines for export to .dwg? As opposed to an export to .dwg from Sketchup arcs/curves/circles/etc. having #sides to contend with. Ps…sorry for the lame q’s regarding the .dwg export…as I still haven’t installed 2019…hope to in the …

[image] Guy: you can read LO files with the ruby API and easily can create native SU entitites! Wow, that’s a really good point. Yeah, why convert to dwg when it could go straight to SketchUp directly using the API?

It’s true, that after reading the contributions to this post, one wonders (especially as an outsider to the insider’s priority list of “we have had a number of requests to bring back the ability to export all entities both LO and SU to the Model Space.”) how this came about. This makes me so very c…

So it could be called “Export to model space”?

[image] duanekemp: so that I might understand “their” need better. if ‘they’ are an enterprise with a couple of thousand network licenses, ‘they’ will have more sway… and no one will be allowed to disclose who ‘they’ might be or even if ‘they’ exist… john

Matt 2h [image] Guy: you can read LO files with the ruby API and easily can create native SU entitites! [image] Matt: Wow, that’s a really good point. Yeah, why convert to dwg when it could go straight to SketchUp directly using the API? Matt, am I reading this right? So… from LO to SU……

Example workflows using Export to SketchUp from LayOut?

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Matt February 9, 2019, 8:42pm 15

Wow, that’s a really good point. Yeah, why convert to dwg when it could go straight to SketchUp directly using the API?

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Example workflows using Export to SketchUp from LayOut?

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