We use Sketchup and Layout to create our design concepts and then create Construction Documents. However sometime we need to make changes to these construction documents. Thus we have a need for a easy Revison Cloud tool similar in function to that in Autocad. It could even be a line type.
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I don’t know that tool, but if you only need to color lines to show modifications, you can us the style setting “Color: by material” and paint them with a color.
SketchUp or LayOut don’t support complex linetypes, but a workaround could be built in SketchUp as a dynamic component (an arc component set to be repeating). It would be better if it could be a LayOut page element, like all 2D annotation elements.
Anssi
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We use layout for our construction documents as well. We created various sized and shaped revision clouds and saved as a scrap book in layout. Once a revision has been implemented you can place a revision cloud from the scrap book and resize to suit the area of change.
I wrote this tool ages ago SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation
It’s a script to draw a 2d revision-cloud in SketchUp, following the cursor.
You could then copy that line-work into Layout and add it to a Scrapbook…
This is a very basic drafting feature that needs to be implemented
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Wow, looking at this thread in Jan 2022 and nothing. This would be an incredibly useful feature. for now, I can export everything as a PDF and open in Bluebeam to complete this task, but sure would like to do this within LO and not have to use another program to complete the task . . .
MBP 16" M1 Max using LO 20 (Have abandoned LO21 for being useless)
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