Regarding Lineweight, I never both with it… the workaround seems archaic, laborious and so prone to missed steps…I use what SU is good at === colour, shadow, texture and fog, transparency to discriminate design elements
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I totally agree. As stated earlier, I don’t typically deal with line weights beyond what SketchUp exports.
In schematic design, we don’t have a full model and draw the floor plans in 2D. Lately, we have typically drafted these on the iPad using software called Concepts, but we have experimented with drafting them in LayOut and SketchUp. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.
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You can export DWG from concepts and use it as a start… but I’ve gone all in to opposites - starting with a pencil / notebook or right into SketchUp.
Regarding my earlier post on this topic I found this example of a approval document on the city of Sydney submission site showing colour, shading etc is more effective in conveying architectural design intent than lineweight alone.
Actually I was doing similar highrise elevations to this in the early 90s taking autocad linework into Micrografix Designer (vector graphics) and adding the colour and shading manually… SketchUp does it so much better…
Ps… not sure what software this elevation was created in… also note these are schematic colours for clarity… not realism.