I’ve created a model in Sketchup, and made it with 4 components.
I would like to send each component to Layout so I can make a technical drawing for each part to be manufactured. As sending the whole drawing would mean far too many dimensions etc so I would like to have 4 separate technical drawings for each component.
Is there a way to do this? As I’ve tried highlighting one component, then ‘Send to Layout’, but the whole drawing goes.
I’ve attached a jpg to show the 4 components highlighted.
Think of each scene you create in SketchUp as a photo of some part of the model. That might be the exploded view as in your screen shot or it might be an assembled view. It could be views of the individual parts, too. Each of the scenes you create in SketchUp is then used for a viewport in LayOut.
If you want to show an assembled view and the exploded view, you’ll need to have two copies of the assembly. One fully assembled and one exploded. Moving the parts between scenes won’t get you the results you need.
Here is an example from a LayOut project I did. Each view of the model is a viewport made from a different scene.
If you were to do a Zoom Extents of the SketchUp model, there would be an assembled copy of the urn for the three views on the first page and an exploded copy off to one side for the exploded view. For the bottom view on the second page, I turned off the layer for the top of the box to show the interior and created another scene.