Hello. I’m new to CAD and new to Sketchup and have some questions. I’ve modeled a duplex in Sketchup and sent to layout and started my documentation. After getting started, I went back to Sketchup and turned off some tags then updated the scene. When I came back to layout, my drawing had shifted and my documentation was no longer in place. I was curious to know where I went wrong?
Also, I created my own electrical symbols in layout scrapbook but I didn’t know how to center the light fixtures since there is no measuring tool in Layout. Is there an accurate way to center fixtures or should the electrical documentation be done in Sketchup?
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When moving the symbol, grab it by the middle, and hover over a midpoint of, say, the wall it needs to be center of. The same inferencing system should be working in Layout at it does in SketchUp.
If you haven’t yet, check out this free course made by SketchUp about using Layout. This and the other courses were invaluable to me when I was first starting out with SketchUp.
it’s possible you were moving your view during the edits/updates in SU and when saving the scene, the viewport in LO will now be skewed compared to the objects you had placed in LO. one trick i’ve been using is to create axis-plane frame boxes which form a frame for my views. these components are controlled by tags to hide/unhide.
i may have several for different “zoom” levels. then i simply zoom extents to get the right setting consistently, maybe hide the frame, and save the scene (last step). i can always hide or unhide in LO so my viewports consistently line up and i can have a visual verification, or use the frame to provide edges on the view in lieu of the viewport edging.
