Good Morning I was wondering whether you use sketchup/Layout to produce lighting plans ? I have always used cad software but I am sure it would be easier to do it all through sketchup Thanks

That’s how I do it. I have a 2-page scrapbook for the purpose. Page 1 has all the individual icons representing light fittings, switches, outlet plates, etc. They are the ones I drag onto the plan. The same icons appear on page 2 but with descriptive text and everything is grouped together so th…

Wow meaning that all the work is done in Layout

May I ask which drawing style you are using for your furniture ?

this is just a restyled view of my construction drawing style. i think its just a shaded style (no tex) here’s the same plan styled for construction drawing PROPOSED SECTIONS_v2.compressed.pdf (1.5 MB) PROPOSED_GF_SF_PLANS_v2-compressed.pdf (1.5 MB)

its actually pretty simple, just create a scaled drawing on top of your SU viewport to the same scale then you can set out your lights with correct spacing etc. As Simon says, have a scrapbook setup with the symbols in. Then its just some wiggly lines to show circuits and switching.

Rob, Impressed with your drawings. Is that linework from your model created form GCreate Group from Slice for the Sections or do you use Skalp or similar? Did you do the dotted lines manually? Either way nice lively drawing!

This is stunning work @bifterx I too would be interested in how you’ve shown all the joists dotted. Mike

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For a Reflected Ceiling Plan approach, go to this thread and look at Anssi’s response. This technique works well, and allows you to most of your work in the SketchUp model.

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