Hi, im trying to export a layout plan to DWG. It seems to work fine, but when I open the DWG in AutoCad it opens as one piece with a frame around: I cannot use any of the lines in AutoCad. When I select the entire model in Autocad, only the lines of the surrounding frame are selected. Any idea what Im doing wrong? Im on Mac Sierra, could that be the problem?
LayOut exports to DWG using both the Model and Paper spaces. Things you have created in LayOut and placed on its pages are exported into paper space layouts, one layout per page. Things in SketchUp viewports are expored to full scale into the Model space. Thus, in your example, the only thing you have in your paperspace layout (as indicated by the triangular UCS icon in your screenshot) is your SketchUp viewport, and the plan shown is in the Model space. You can learn about the Paper/Model concept by studying the AutoCad documentation.
Anssi
Thanks, I never been a frequent Layout user, so that option was strange for me. Im using the 17 now and that option is gone, I read that the whole DWG export is better in 17, so Im trying to get the hang of that. The dream scenario would be to be to draw site plans in Sketchup and have it exported to Autocad with layers. I does not work that well for me so far, but i´m on to it =)
Dear Theo,
Did you find a way to export your site plans in SketchUP and export it as layers in a DWG or DXF ?
Sjoerd
I’m on LayOut 24 by now, and the DWG import still seems either useless or I’m too dumb to use it correctly. To make things easier, I even created a separate Layout file with one single page. The page contains 3 viewports stacked on each other though to be able to color current (black), new (red) and demolish (yellow) parts of the renovation (standard colouring scheme here in Switzerland). This is how it looks in layout:
When I open the exported DWG in AutoCad Viewer… drum roll, please… I get this!
Has anyone any experience on how to get a useful DWG out of LayOut? Out of SketchUp is fine too, as long as it is 2D, not 3D.
Thanks!
Set your SketchUp viewport in LayOut to use Vector rendering. Using raster rendering produces a PNG image
Ooooohhh…! Thanks so much for the help! That seems to have done the trick:
I really hope that the architect can use these files now! 
Just FYI,
I found with the default SU style settings and Vector a view-port in LO, the exported DWG/DXF would have hidden geometry show up. I even found that the exported PDF, would export this geometry as white line work that you could not readily see but was none the less there, making the files much larger than they needed to be.
After playing with styles, I found settings that would not export the hidden geometry helping produce cleaner DWG/DXFs for the consultants I work with.
Here is where I posted that information:
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