I’m tweaking on my Layout drawing styles today. I’m noticing that the line extensions in my sketchy style are very exaggerated in Layout compared to how they look in Sketchup. I’ll post some screenshots here. First is the Sketchup drawing, next is the Layout drawing in Raster mode which is unusable, next is is Hybrid mode that looks great but the line extensions are too much and the last pic is one of BMike’s beautiful drawings that he’s posted here over the years. I’ve always been inspired by his drawings and I’m trying to recreate the look. Any ideas?
BTW. I’m using the same style in Layout as I am in Sketchup.
First, are you really using a sketchy style? If so, there’s no point in it if you are going to use Vector or Hybrid rendering for the viewports since the sketchy edges won’t be displayed with those rendering methods. Sketchy styles use png raster images for the strokes which are displayed in place of the normal edges in SketchUp.
Extensions are specified in pixel length in SketchUp but not in LayOut. If you want to use extensions as part of the style, I would suggest that you find an extension length that looks like what you want in LayOut and ignore how it looks in SketchUp. For example this is with Extensions set to 3 points in SketchUp.
And in LayOut. Here are two different viewports at different scales showing that the extensions are displayed at the same length regardless of viewport scale.
This is similar to dimensions and text added in SketchUp. Usually if they are readable in SketchUp they are too large in LayOut.
FWIW, I would create the style with the extensions and add it to a collection of styles I can choose in LayOut. I wouldn’t use the style with extensions in SketchUp unless I was planning to use it in an image export. I certainly wouldn’t model with extensions active.
Hi Dave! Thanks for the reply. I have a quirk about my drawings looking like they are slightly hand drawn no matter if I’m in Sketchup or Layout. I have customers into my showroom all the time and I have a big tv screen where I fly around the model of the kitchen and I really prefer it to have the slightly hand drawn look. I guess you’re right that it’s not a sketchy style. It’s really just slightly exaggerated endpoints and line extensions. In my first screenshot I have my Sketchup model endpoints set at 1 which is the minimum (I tried to set it to .25 but it won’t let me). I’m trying to create BMike’s look like the last screenshot. Any other ideas? I guess I can message BMike to see if he can share his method…
That is an old old drawing for me now!
I printed those on D sized sheets for permits / engineering.
I believe at the time I was rendering in Vector and I played around with how the PDF looked - what it looks like in LO and SKP is irrelevant - you have to adjust it for how it will look in LO - as you can tweak the line weight / line scale / etc. that affect things.
Here is a current project I’m working on:
SKP:
LO:
PDF: (rendered in raster)
Plan PDF: (rendered in raster)
