Hi Guys,
Our team is planning to use Sketchup Layout for our drawings. Currently we are testing it if possible. The first problem we encounter is how create dynamic text and blocks simillar to autocad. Is it possible in Layout? or is there any plugin for it? Thanks
Have you played around with AutoText in Layout?
Layout is actually way more powerful for dynamic text than it appears. Have a play around with the scrapbook default contents to see how it uses height markers, viewport titles, scales and a load of other stuff.
The basic format is; Add text to document, Text>Insert Auto-Text - you can also customize the auto text; Text> Customize Auto-Text…
For slightly more advanced stuff you can use the label tool and start the label on the item in a SketchUp viewport where you can pull metadata from the model.
Linking to an Excel spreadsheet(s) also offers a lot of possibilities in LO.
Sorry Guys, First time here, the image above is a sample CAD Block that we are using. On the top corner there is a drop down option for us to click of which is suitable spec for the project. Is it possible to create like this in Layout? Thank you.
You can also import RTF format files…
https://help.sketchup.com/en/layout/typing-importing-or-auto-inserting-text#import-text
Thank you. Please suggest a application for do a rtf file.
“LayOut enables you to import text in Rich Text Format (an .rtf file) or plain text format (a .txt file). If your text is in a different format, most word-processing programs enable you to save a file to either of these formats.”
wordpad on a windows machine will create rtf files
While Sketchup is very extensible with extensions / plugins, Layout does not offer any capacity for add-on programming. It can do a bunch of things, but you can’t customize its programming.
I hope this will change in the future.
As others have suggested, create an .xlsx or .rtf file and reference it into Layout. In the spreadsheet, create separate sheets with whatever information you need. Then in Layout, in the table reference options you can select the appropriate sheet (see below) required for your document.
Hope this helps.
Thank you Guys, These will help us
