Layered DWG export

[Julian_Smith]

IN SKETCHUP:
So we’re accustomed to creating layers for different elements, all geometry on Layer0 with grouping on the appropriate layer (-s). And we’re using the scenes to control the visibility, etc.

IN LAYOUT:
Great, we’ve set up the various layers to use, have specific ones assigned for the “viewports” of the scenes from the linked SketchUp model (-s). Other ones for dimensions, notes, etc. You’ve done your work and you can export to PDF / DWG, as the case may be. Except that all the work that went into layering in SketchUp is lost when linked in Layout, only the Layout layer (-s) with the viewport (-s) and other you’ve set up for dimensions, notes, etc. gets translated to separate layers in the DWG. Which makes it a bit of a pig to work with when this file is communicated to other consultants.

THE QUESTION:
How do you manage this communication of information? Do you send the consultant a PDF with the Layout exported DWG and a separate DWG export of the SketchUp model, which kind of counter-intuitive if you ask me. How do I go about to get the layering across as was set up in the SketchUp model, but from the Layout export (with dimensions, notes, etc.)?

[JQL]

I’ve asked that Layout would export Sketchup layers before but it doesnt. So I simply don’t export SU layers to DWG. I stick to what LO can export.

However, I work with juxtaposed viewports of the SU model and if I layer them spearatelly I tend to get a fairly useable dwg file.

I’d love to be able to export Selected SU layers though, and I’d love to have a color table that would translate each layer into a color in the DWG.

The main issue with juxtaposed viewpots is that you duplicate elements from the SU model and they are an incumbrance to setup. We cannot