Hey there,
after having several issues in finding out how to export to .dwg out of layout:
I don’t know if I am right, but it seems to me that there is no possibility to easyly export dashed lines coming from a sketchup viewport: In Sketchup I have drawn geometry and assigned them to a tag. The tag was visualized with dashes. I created a scene in xray mode, and another scene with wireframe visualization.
Then in Layout created a viewport of the skechup file with the xray scene and another page with a viewport of the wireframe scene, both I set it to vektor mode. I refreshed the model reference and saved the layout file. The dashed lines were visualized in both scenes correctly in sketchup, while in Layout they are not, in both pages/viewports. Also when exporting to dwg out of layout no dashed lines…
When going to raster mode too, hybrid too. ( I got that now). That means to me that i have no possibility to export a in sketchup drawn geometry with dashed lines per layout to dwg, also with dashed lines…am I right? Please tell me if i made an error or didn’t understand something wrong…
The only way I could generate dashed dwg-lines was to redraw the geometry in layout itself and formating them dashy…
I have set the viewport to scale 1:50. Then I went to dwg export - then checked the checkbox to export for sketchup. Everything fine, the export worked but when opening with a dwg-viewer the scale is 5 times smaller than it should be. (In sketchup 1 drew in cm). Is there no easy way to get a 1:1 dwg-file out of layout directly?
I would be happy if you could help me if you notice something a false routine…
Also I would be happy if you could describe me your handling how to export dwg files…perhaps there is a easier way then over layout, perhaps a sketchup extension, or somehow…
Thank you for your replies
yours
spb
The last setting “Export for SketchUp” is the one that confuses your scale. It creates a DWG file of your LayOut page and puts all the objects into Model space, at the scale of the LayOut page. It is often a very practical setting, but usually you have to open the model in CAD and scale the whole thing to get it to full scale.
Yes I understand. I suggested intuitively it should be like this.
checked for Export to model space in 1:1, perhaps with an additional dialog to set a scale factor…that would be useful becaus I would not have to adjust with another software (me I unfortunately don’t have Autocad)
perhaps another checkbox for export to paper space with scale like in sketchup
But I think that is another question…
My initial question was if a expierienced expert - SU- user can export dashed lines out of Layout (lines that come out of a SU-viewport) to dwg…? (disregarding the proper scale for now)
…Sorry perhaps I did not explain my question good enough, or I misworded something…
I tried exporting one file of my own.First with the Export for SketchUp box unchecked. I looked at my dashdot lines with the List command in TrueView. Their linetype was dashdot, and they had a line scale factor of 20. On screen they looked solid, but I guess that with the correct linetype scale values and a correct global ltscale value they would look OK. I wonder if this is an inches/metric (I use millimeters) conversion issue behind the scenes but I have seen this with other applications too.
With the Export to SketchUp box checked, everything looked almost exactly like on my LayOut page, with correct dashdots visible.
