Exporting to pdf scale greyed out

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Hi, I am having the following issue, I can’t change the scale when I export a scene into a PDF. In particular a scene with a vertical section (facades/sections), because apparently changing the scale works on a scene with a horizontal section (floorplans). Why is this the case? And more importantly, how can change scales on a vertical section. I want to create scaled 1:200 views.

I tried using Layout, but apparently it creates an image when exporting to pdf, in other words, I can’t edit the lines in illustrator when exporting from Layout as opposed to when exporting directly from Sketchup.

Any help is appreciated.

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Scale setting isn’t availablre unless you have the camera set to Parallel Projection. Make sure you are using a standard view.

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Hi Dave, thanks for the quick reply. Aligning to the section still causes it to be greyed out, but aligning to a standard view (back/front/left/right) works. However, my building is rotated, do you know how I can adjust the standard views in such a way it aligns with my rotated building?

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The standard views are fixed. You can’t change them to match the model. You would have to rotate the model to align with the default axis alignment.

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Rotating the model fixed it, had to reorganize all my scenes but it is what it is. Thanks for the help!