Import from Layout to SketchUp

[slbaumgartner]

Continuing the discussion from Forum Login and Signup issues, error messages:

@sculptur1950

Hello,

An issue - starting the actual signup process. I click on the first step to introduce myself and I am then given the same intro page. I simply want to post a question as a new user:

I am currently using a trial version of Sketchup Pro. Is it possible to create a 2D image in Layout and import it into Sketchup to add 3dimensional elements?

I what to create a 3D sketch of a full size standing figure. But I don’t want it to be “in the round.” Imagine taking a shadow of a figure and lifting it up off the pavement and then giving it depth say, four inches thick.
I have a 2D sketch in Layout that was manipulated with paths and splines using the anchors to bend it into a smooth, continuous shape, but I haven’t found where I can import this to Sketchup. Or can I create this shape using tools like the path/spline functions in Sketchup?

I started a new topic for you since this is really off the sign-in topic.

Export is only from SketchUp to Layout. There is no path the other way. There are extensions to do very powerful splines in SketchUp which can then be viewed in Layout, though. Have a look at Fredo6’s Bezier Spline available free from the sketchUcation store.

[Barry]

The design paradigm we hold to is that drawing in 3D should be so easy that you start there, then use LayOut to communicate via construction documents or catalogs or paper in 2D. We probably could have made it easier to do this, but it defeats the process. Try it. We think you’ll be much faster/better if you do.

[Anssi]

The only way to get linework from LayOut to SketchUp would be to export first from LayOut to DWG, which can then be imported.

• export to Model space
• use a scale that scales the thing up to avoid missing lines
• no need to export “faces” as they convert to solid hatches - hatches are ignored by the SketchUp importer.

Anssi