Hopefully you’ll just give the drawing in LayOut a try for your title block stuff at least. I prefer modeling in SketchUp, too, but I would think of making LO template title blocks and such in SketchUp. It’s simple enough to do the drawing for that in LayOut directly.
Your replies to our suggestions and instructions often make me think of the old tightwad farmer talking to his neighbor. He said, “I had to have my truck towed into the shop this morning. They charged me $50! I got my money’s worth, though. I kept the brakes on all the way.” Seems like resistance to help is the MO.
It is too bad that you won’t update to the current version of SketchUp and LayOut. You would have all that control over lineweights and styles for your SketchUp views that you want.
I tried to update to 2000 but for whatever reason the deadline came and went without a response on their end. I am 75 and in the process of winding down my business, so it is difficult to justify paying annual fees.
If LO had guides, I could bang this out. What I am doing is using the dimension tool as if it were the SU guide tool. Its slow.
Question: I have to radius the corners so it looks like the green overlay. I have to do this in 16 locations
I guess I’d use the Rounded Rectangle option and use the cursor keys to adjust the radius of the round corners. After you’ve created one rectangle you can copy it to make the others with the same radius.
PS - I just rewatched it and see how you adjusted the corners. Something else I didn’t know was possible. I got my template done and am moving on with the plans - Thanks a lot.
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The group code problem - yes I see, it does have 2 periods. Maybe if I just used template (1).dwg it would load? I’ll try that.
Copy and paste - I didn’t think of it. Another thing to test. Since I have already redrawn it, and saved it as a template per Dave’s suggestion, I’ll play with it after I finish the plans. Thanks for the observation and option.
The thing that is weird, if I hover anywhere close to the template it turns red. It doesn’t do that with the stock templates.
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Be aware that in LO2018 copying and then pasting into LayOut as Devine suggests results in a reference to a temporary file which will be deleted by the operating system at some point. This can cause you problems unless you remember to unlink from the reference.
For what you were wanting to do, though, drawing the content in LayOut gave you a better looking template anyway.
The file you uploaded doesn’t look like a template. At least the second sheet has a lot of project-specific content. The first sheet looks entirely different. Did you save a file as a template with only your borders and title block?
So if you used that template for the file you shared, you put the title block content on an unshared layer and only on page two. The first page doesn’t match and neither will additional pages unless you use the Duplicate option in the Pages menu. Duplicating the page will bring over all the images and other text, too.
I reworked your template. I put the borders and other title block content on layers at the bottom of the list. There’s one layer forstuff that will be the same on every page and another for content that will vary from page to page. There are also layers for SketchUp viewports, inserted images, dimensions and labels. Put the appropriate content on the correct layer. The SketchUp Viewports layer is active so when you start a new project by inserting the SketchUp file or Send to LayOut, the first viewport will be on the right layer.
You’ll have to edit the A numbers at the bottom of each page.
Seems like resistance to help is the MO.
