[Help] Plugin to flatten 3D furniture into 2D for export to AutoCAD?

[Vitordmira]

Hey. I’m fairly new to working with SketchUp. I’m currently modeling furniture for scale models, and one of the most time-consuming parts of my workflow is laying out the components flat in 2D so I can export them to AutoCAD for cutting (usually on MDF sheets).

As you can see in the image, I manually rotate and arrange each piece on the red axis (XY plane), but this process takes a lot of time, especially with more complex furniture.

Is there any plugin or extension that could help me flatten the components automatically or at least speed up this step?

Thanks

[paul.millet]

hello
have a look at this open source extension OpenCutList sur L'Air du Bois

[bmike]

Paul suggested OpenCutList, and you could try Eneroth Laser Tools:

SketchUp Extension Warehouse

[gsharp]

I use simple extension “drop vertices” to drop selected vertices of the 3d model to z=0, and then “selection toys” extension to remove faces.. then just tidy up the edges as needed and group. Mostly though I just draw a 2d simple outline using inference snapping from the 3d object above..

[boris.beaulant]

Yes, if parts of your furniture are component, OpenCuList allows you to generate a Parts List from which you can :

• Generate cutting diagrams that can be exported to DXF.
  Link to the documentation.
• Or export all parts to individual DXF files. Link to the documentation.