Hi I am trying to import n architect’s drawing to do a furniture layout on. I only have a .pdf which seemed to be very fuzzy when I imported it. As such i did a Screen Grab and imported it as a j-peg. Still quite fuzzy but better. To re-size it to scale I have re-watched a Harwood Podcast tutori…

draw a line with the line (penci)l tool over the part of the image that you know the dimension use the tape measure tool to measure the line you drew enter what the length should be

Great yes just drew a line and and it worked - hoorah! Thank you. Do you happen to have any ideas for improving the fuzziness of the imported screen shot/ .jpg. I need to draw a furniture layout on top of this plan and really didn’t want to have to re-draw the whole plan as well. Any ideas pleas…

Unfortunately, the fuzziness is in the raster image you imported. So, there is nothing you can do to sharpen it in SketchUp. SketchUp is not an image bitmap editor like Photoshop, so it also does not provide a way to erase selected parts of an image. Sorry!

If I manage to obtain it in a .dwg format though I should be fine?

Any format that is real geometry not an image and that you can import to SU should be ok. In fact, text is ignored by many imports so that might clear up your issue with architects notes.

Up to a point. Your profile says you are using Make 2013. Make doesn’t have a built in DWG importer. However, there is a free plugin available on Sketchucation Plugin Store which imports most but not all DWG object types.

Right! That was why I used the phrase “that you can import to SU”. I probably should have been more explicit.

you can also get a PDF2CAD converter… I use it about twice a week. Or get the original DWG from the architect. If you have photoshop or similar you may be able to import the PDF, then delete out unwanted stuff, then save as a JPG.

New user struggling to re-size j-peg of floor plan. Please help!

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alyson March 6, 2017, 4:15pm 3

Hey there, this forum post might help you out: How do I resize JPG floor plan images in SketchUp 2017? - #5 by davidverger

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