I’ve ‘Sent to Layout’ a Sketchup model viewed in parallel projection which will comfortably fit on an A3 landscape page. I have only an A4 printer. I can’t seem to figure out how to set up Layout to print the scene over two portrait A4 pages. If I set the paper size in Layout to use the A3 landsc…

Sorry, it’s in SU not Layout that the view has gone bizarre. And doesn’t correct itself using Revert. And yes, I did follow your oft repeated and very good advice to set up a scene in SU. Give me a few minutes to try again.

[image] john_mcclenahan: in SU not Layout that the view has gone bizarre. Is the scene screwed up or just the view? How is it bizarre? Here’s a quickie example. Two pages, same viewport and some marks at the center to use to aid in alignment. [Screenshot%20-%203_13_2019%20%2C%2012_02_01%20…

It looked as though I’d inadvertently used Scale horizontally, but Zoom Extents showed no different, and both the scene and the view in it showed the same. But I’ve closed and reopened the SU file and it’s back to normal. I’ll take it from the top again, and follow your two suggestions. In the me…

So you should wind up with something like this: [Screenshot%20-%203_13_2019%20%2C%2012_09_49%20PM]

I see. I haven’t quite got there yet but will in a few minutes.

The grid is a separate component (actually two - one for major, one for minor grid) from the tree. I was originally hoping to print it direct from SU. It’s the framework for a tree in our forthcoming production Things I know to be True (in May) and the grid helps us lay it out in the workshop. I’m…

And weirdly, after I purged the SU file, it’s ballooned from just over 4MB to 11.3MB. The Layout file has ballooned correspondingly. Hmmm. What’s going on here? The screen text repeats still in the centre of both pages (understandable) but the main top caption has disappeared completely - too big…

Not sure why it has ballooned. I’ll look shortly. The LayOut file includes the SketchUp file so if the SketchUp file gets bigger, it stands to reason the LayOut file would too. I made three A4 pages in portrait orientation. Since there was room on the paper, I used a larger scale. Still haven’t add…

Many thanks again, Dave. Stop there, i think, on your behalf. I’ve got something good enough - to scale, on two A4 pages at 1:24. Missing title (SU screen) text and misplaced right hand height text labels, but it’s good enough for Workshop use.

Print to 1:24 scale in Layout on two A4 portrait pages

LayOut

DaveR March 13, 2019, 5:13pm 10

It would look better if you would create the grid separately from the tree and add the text in LO. Depends on what you need out of it.

Grid and text in LayOut instead of in SketchUp

Screen grab from the exported PDF.

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Print to 1:24 scale in Layout on two A4 portrait pages

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