All, Sorry in advance if this is opinionated. Or if I am simply howling at the moon. I am an Architect. I have used Sketchup so much over the years. It is super malleable and fun to use. I would go so far as to say I love it. Through ease of use and the way it lets you improvise effortlessly, you …

Thanks for checking in as to my whereabouts this last 7 years. I have been using sketchup in it’s wonderful ways. to visualise. and make renderings. and to show clients. then using CAD to do the 2D documentation. I had a moment this last few weeks to look at my workflow again, and see if I can use…

Paul I would be very curious to hear what is your workaround for vector hatching in LO? Apologies if I’m asking you to repeat something you have posted before. I am adapting my (how did I get so old?) self to raster hatches and have been able to get them to what I need to do. And the added possibili…

When you use textures the file size increases. If you use only vectors your file sizes go down a lot. You could use vector hatches in LO if you only use vector rendering. In this case all faces will be converted to solid hatches when exported from LO to DWG. I’ve used that in the past too. Of cour…

Thx. Yes, that is more-or-less what I have landed on doing.

I find bluebeam invaluable for project management in general. It would be worth the subscription regardless for most AEC professionals, I think.

I agree, but I have simpler markup methods with the iPad and concepts app and I tried Bluebeam for the ipad too. I, basically use 3 apps: Sketchup, Layout and Concepts. I have a lot more, but those are the basic ones.

[image] JQL: Sketchup, Layout and Concepts After the mention of Bluebeam, I was going to ask, “What about Concepts?” I’ve only played with it a little. (I’ve spent a lot more time trying to learn Procreate, which is a different tool, but it’s all an “only so many hours in the day” thing.)

Procreate is raster based, with a finite canvas, with excellent tools for digital painting and also allows you to create workflows for measuring and have some accuracy. Concepts is more like vector hand drawn but accurate sketches, where you can draw at a specific scale, on an infinite canvas and g…

[image] JQL: also tried Morpholio Oh, right Morpholio. I get them confused, but looked at both. Morpholio is what James Akers was demonstrating at 3D Basecamp, but for illustration, which is more along the use case of Procreate.

Morpholio would be great if it was vector based. It makes little sense to me to zoom in into a drawing just to have to redraw it because it’s pixelated.

[image] kyeric: The Rayon folks have created a very interesting 2D tool for CAD, and this is relatively brand new, so it proves that this sort of need still exists and there is a market for it. Tie an extension like Rayon to a live link/live view from SketchUp (or other software) and do your di…

Layout & Sketchup - Sad Goodbye - #145 by colin - Pro

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SU as LO replacement - a mockup

Feature Requests

43

2773

May 3, 2023

Issues with layout has me investigating sketchup alternatives

LayOut

sketchup , bug , layout , snap , issues

70

6215

March 21, 2023

Curious: How viable is Layout as a 2D CAD software?

LayOut

39

3708

November 11, 2021

The usual complaint ... again

LayOut

106

7075

January 22, 2022

Layout 2018 - not up to par with other drafting software?

LayOut

dimensions , performance , layout

277

27863

March 24, 2020

Layout & Sketchup - Sad Goodbye

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