I’ve modelled a drawer in sketchup. It has a bottom that is dadoed into the front, back and two sides. I’ve created front elevation, side elevation and plan view scenes in hidden line style with X-ray on so that I can see it in each view (so I can measure it later in layout). In layout the bottom is only visible in raster view (not vector or hybrid) and is so fuzzy that I cannot get a true dimension measured (I know what the dimensions are from sketchup so I know that the measurement in layout is wrong). This will be a common use of layout for me because I need to measure joinery that is not visible from a simple “surface view” of a piece of furniture.
Don’t use Xray. Instead use stacked viewports. The top one with the style set to Hidden Line and the bottom one set to Wireframe and the tag given a dashed style. Note: each viewport is on a separate layer in LO.
Thanks for the reply Dave. Appreciate it. I am VERY new at LO. First thing: do I have to create 6 views then - the three views in wire frame and the 3 views with hidden line?
No. You don’t have to. The side view of the drawers is one scene and the back view another. It’s the same scene on either side of the break lines. I just cropped the view for each one by dragging the edges of the viewports.
Same scene in each layer of the stack, just a different style for the bottom one compared to the top one. I’ve also given different tags to the different components in each drawer assembly which allows me to not show the drawer side for the dashed line view in the lower viewports.
For the side view of the drawers I am using the same scene as for the side view of the entire piece and simply turning off the tags/tag folders for the components I didn’t need to show.
Next question : I’ve been unable to represent length is JUST inches, not feet and inches in either SU or LO. Also been unable to change the actual length NUMBERS in LO to a different color. Was able to change arrow color
If you have existing dimensions on the page, select them and change their units in the same place.
With the dimension selected, go into Text Style and click on the Text Color swatch. Change the color in the Colors panel. Edit: I see you’re on Mac. Go into the Text settings for this. The UI is a little different for text on Mac right now.
Sorry Dave. I see you have a text style dropdown amongst your others that are found under Window but I can’t find one. There is a Text menu but no option for color under it
