I’m curious - what do other peoples’ shop drawings look like? Are you making cabinets? Furniture? Space ships? How detailed do you get? I’d love to see some examples of your work!

Here are some pages from a conceptual design package I used as a reference in our latest course that just launched on SketchUp Campus - LayOut Design Package . Wouldn’t call them shop drawings per se but it lands somewhere in between cabinets and space ships as far as scale and amount of detail goes …

I do all my construction drawings in Layout 2021.1. I use a series of scenes from sketchup that I bring to LO. I use paralell projection (Isometric for 3d views so that I can control scaling. That scheme seems to work fine because the views (scenes) I use are of smaller sections. Layout changes to …

That’s a nice list. You are giving me some idea’s to try out. It’s always so interesting to see what solutions other professionals come up with. So many variations! Here’s my list. Nomenclature is different but the basic workflow seems similar. Appreciate the compliments. [Screen Shot 2021-0…

Hi Keith, this is a great shop drawing. How did you produce the exploded view of the hood in the top right? Did you manually create a different version of the file with the parts moved away from each other or do you have a plugin you like which does that for you?

thanks! plugin? Is there a plugin that does that? I’m all about working harder not smarter. :slight_smile: and yes, I took a copy of that model out of the kitchen it goes with and put it in it’s own file and then created a set of views and the explosion (manual) and then brought it into Layout.

[image] KeithBrooks: plugin? Is there a plugin that does that? There are a couple of ancient ones but I found they created more work than they saved for the kinds of exploded views I need. Yours appears to be similar.

That’s good to know…I tend to want to have control of the placement of the parts instead of some randomizer or a set distance exploder. Didn’t think that a plugin could offer that kind of detail. Thanks for the tip Dave.

Check this one: [image] Real-time exploded view for SketchUp Extensions Dear All. Hello friends. Here is the video description feature: Exploded view made by us. We use C ++ and Swig to build the .so library Connecting to ruby makes the response speed very fast Real…

I agree. I don’t believe there’s any way to make a really good exploded view automatically. I’ve seen the link that Jack shared. Would prefer to do it myself and get it right the first time.

Mike, thanks for the link. For me, as Dave has said, I wouldn’t have control of individual parts to move them for the right view of the piece. Additionally, not having control of the labels would be a no go for me as well. Locking those things in with no way to control individual labels would be …

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A couple of drawings made for a house I designed.

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