As I zoom, the scale of the dashes of a line change and I need to see the actual scale.
When drawing a dash line in LayOut, is there a way to lock the scale to the actual scale?
See images. They are at the same stroke scale.
The scaling of the dashed lines with zooming is done so that you can tell what style the line is when it is small on the screen. If the lines didn’t scale, elements such as the dots between the dashes would disappear because they’d be smaller than the pixels on the screen. Then the stoke style would appear to be a different one than it is. If you want to know exactly what the lines will look like, Make a set of them and export to PDF. Print the PDF file and keep it as a reference.
So in any other drawing software the lines will remain at the proper printing scale, especially when viewing in a “Print” view as LayOut is always in.
Does anyone know if there is a way to set it that way, rather than test printing multiple times, or zooming in so far that you lose sense of context?
There is no way to stop the scaling of the lines as you zoom in LayOut.
Wow. That’s disappointing. Thanks
I’ve been using LayOut since it’s introduction and never found it to be a problem.
If you have ever used AutoCad, Revit, or any other software, you would not want to go back.
That’s not my experience but each to his own.
That’s such a crazy comment. I’ve watched a handful of tutorials between the two programs, even comparing chief architect etc. There simply is no faster modelling software from a modelling only stand point for construction type projects. The advantage revit has is that it’s really good at doing material takeoff quantities and having them already setup for you as one models, the argument that revit is bim, sketchup is also bim based on the use of plugins for example medeek plugins, plusspec, etc.
I would say that if you don’t know the depth of the following plugin authors and there plugins such as, skalp, curic, libfredo, eneroth, medeek tools, profile builder, etc. than I think it’s fair to say that you don’t understand the power of sketchup. The power of sketchup is really in it’s plugins for the most part and it’s night and day better than any other modelling program, not even a comparison it’s so much better, cleaner, funner to use, etc. I could go on and on in my own experience seeing revit and other programs, even revit guys I know say sketchup with the plugins is better. I would never ever want to go to revit. Perhaps to do some material take offs, but there are solutions for that. That’s my two cents. Sketchup for the win, by far.