I am a very very newbie user and want to know how to draw in 2D to scale, for instance 1/4"=1ft, or 1"= 1 foot, and full scale 1:1… I draw small things in 2D with lines. When I open a new drawing page and draw line that’s about 1" on the screen, it measures 20ft in the program…? I can magnify a…

When I draw a line and label it 10" long it shows up on the screen as tiny dot. Window-Zoom has only 2 settings, once in and once out, and neither makes any real difference in viewing. Camera-Zoom has some zoom settings but they don’t seem to just make the tiny dot on the screen any bigger… I ju…

Try the zoom-extents tool: [image] (also by default shortcutted as shift-Z)

Thank You! That did the trick… It makes that 10" line fill the screen. Just what I wanted. That way if I am drawing to a 18x24" page, I can draw an 18x24 box and Voila! …a page to work with! Is this Sidney BTW?

Nope, I’m a Steve! By the way, if you have a typical size model you work with, you can draw something that size, zoom extents on it, delete it, and then save the result as your default template. Thereafter your default template will open already zoomed to that size.

Thanks Steve… Sidney is a landscape architect in town… Your help is very much appreciated. I think the next questions will revolve around printing from my I-Mac to the Canon MX 88w Ink Jet printer. Typically I draw parts up full scale, and take them to the shop… My initial test were not successfu…

Steve… stumbling around, I discovered that taking a screen shot (cmd-shift-4 on the mac) of the drawing seems to reproduce it 1:1… go figure… Then I can PDF and reproduce, or e-mail it, or whatever…

Can other Mac people duplicate @SecondWind screen shot technique of printing-to-scale? I would like to add this to the SketchUp Sage’s print-to-scale tips.

Steve… I tried it again with another drawing and I think I just lucked out…kinda close, but not really. Maybe somebody more talented than I can work this into a science, or there is another way to print full scale details…

Another way, Geo’s Print to Scale

Scale Drawing in 2D

LayOut

slbaumgartner October 25, 2015, 8:56pm 10

This is a very common question. It is easier using Layout, which is part of the Pro version of SketchUp, but with a bit more effort can be done using SketchUp Make. This topic links to several tutorials on how to proceed:

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Scale Drawing in 2D

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