Orientating elevations

[stclairalan]

Hi Everyone,

I have an interesting interior design project on the go, which is an ‘arced’ house built from a central point .

I have drawn most of the conceptual cabinetry and provided renderings in 3d using Twilight, but I need to also produce formal elevations of each area for the builders etc.
As most of the walls are curved and none of the elevations are on the standard X & Y axies, is there anyway of orientating the axies for each separate area?

groundfloor concept 5 09.10.18 RE ALIGNED ISLAND UNIT.pdf (507.4 KB)

[g.h.hubers]

Check this recent thread for a simple native solution or the extention mentioned at the end by @ChrisDizon

Problem with Standard Views and Axes

Hi, I have the following issue: I’m modeling normally in sketchup, and when I use the standard views (front, left, right … etc) everything looks normal (as seen in the first image attached). But then when I modify the geolocation of my project, it forces me to rotate the entire model to locate it in an appropriate way in the geolocation that I previously loaded. So what I do is modify the axes of sketchup so that when I continue drawing and modeling, the axes are aligned with the new rotation …

[Geo]

Here’s a model demonstrating the method described by @g.h.hubers

Align View.skp (2.5 MB)

[ChrisDizon]

along with all the other tips, you can also go to parallel projection > select a surface and then use the "align view " feature. In a curved wall scenario, you will want to expose the hidden geometry first so you can select the wall section you wish to align to.

How to use alignement tools in SketchUp - Skill Builder

[stclairalan]

That’s perfect!

Thanks, Chris.