I’ve been trying to figure out how to effect section cut line weights in layout. I have been setting the section line weight in SU, saving, then updating the drawings, but I don’t see any effect in Layout. Is there a way in layout to set this value? Thanks.

There are a few ways to control the line-weight of Section cuts in LayOut. The simplest, and my favorite is create a group from the slice of your section . Several folks have had great results with this approach, including Nick Sonder . Once you have a sliced group, create a separate scene for it, the…

Thanks Mark. Interesting technique and I’ll give it a try. I was hoping for some simple way I was missing to get sketch up to save the section line weight as part of a scene. Regards and much appreciated.

@pois Are you talking about the actual line weight of the section cut? If you’re updating this value in a style, you need to make sure you’re saving the changes to the style. Then, attach this style to a scene that you’re exporting to a LayOut viewport, or assign the style to a viewport directly fro…

Matt, you’re a genius! I’ve been using sketch up since V2 and before google, and I’ve never figured out I need to make a new style, name and save it, and then use in layout. I’ve done all sorts of dumb work-arounds in the past. many thanks! P

You’re welcome :slight_smile: The best workflow in my opinion is to save scenes in SketchUp, so the scene remembers the style. If you try to save a scene, but you’ve modified your style, SketchUp is smart enough to tell you that you haven’t saved the style and will give you the option to do so. You…

It’s also worth mentioning you can create a new Template and add the new style to that as well.

Thanks again (all), I was wondering how to save for later use. Now if only SU/Layout had a function to assign line weights to relative distance from the section plane. P

I have tried every so often, but I’ve never mastered it. I’d rather not to have to render in layout as raster to get the effect. Looking to more closely replicate line weights al-la old fashioned hand drafting. If you know a good tutorial, I’d love to try again. Thanks P

Traditional hand drafting usually uses three lineweights: A heavy line for objects that are cut, a medium line for objects viewed in profile and a thin one for features on a surface. Some standards only use two, thick for cut profiles and a thinner one for all the others. This is actually rather ea…

Section line weight in Layout

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Section line weight in Layout

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