I’m inserting a sketchup model made in 2023 into Layout 2023, but the lines stay very grainy.
Even when I change the line thickness or scale and after exporting to pdf in highest resolution.
I know I can use vector, but I don’t want that because the textures in de model will be gone. And Hybrid is not correcting the problem.
I’ve done this with an other document, which is build up the same way and there is no problem there.
The model that is causing the problem I purged from things that are not used and even copied the drawing into a new document.
Check your display quality settings in Document Setup. In version 2023 the developers made the display more coarse to gain some speed. This results to the Low display quality to look very grainy indeed. Medium is more tolerable. Output resolution should always be set to High.
If you want to make things sharper, render as Hybrid. IIncrease Viewport rendering resolution if needed, too. Just keep in mind that works your graphics card harder and can make things slower.
The issue remains after export to Pdf in High res. I don’t mind having grainy lines in workmode, but I do when I saving as pdf to present to the client.
Still one thing: When exporting to PDF, checking the “Use Jpeg compression” box also makes things look more grainy as the compression algorithm creates ugly artifacts when the subject has flat colours and lines, as SketchUp does. JPEG compression is designed to work with photograph-like subjects.
No. Profiles. In the Style settings in the SketchUp file.
By the way, I also note some excessively large texture files and a lot of incorrect tag usage in your SketchUp model.
Aftr reducing the largest of the textures to something more reasonable and correcting the tag usage, the SketchUp file is about 32% smaller. Rendering in LayOut is faster, too.
This is what I see in LO with the viewport rendered as Raster, back face color is black and Line Scale set to 0.4.
Yes. I showed you that’s what I saw when I opened your file. 0.1 point is practically non-existent. You might just as well not display edges at all. I changed it to 0.4 which is still thin but at least there’s edges.
This is a style setting in SketchUp. Here’s the Styles panel in your model after I changed the Back color from the default blue-gray to black.
