I do images for an architect I work with. He likes me to do just line work on a yellow trace type background.
For brickwork and siding I just draw lines in a separate group over the walls and call it a day. This time I have a problem. I have a curved wall that I’m trying to paste an exploded autocad hatch pattern on to. All the other walls are fine I just cut and paste the group and delete the extraneous parts. On the curve, I can’t figure out what to to. Drape usually work to project line work onto mesh but it’s not working in this case.
Worst case scenario is I guess I have to try to draw on the curved surface and hope for the best. I just thought someone might have tried this before?
I’d suggest finding the hatch pattern you want (it may be in the SU materils) or through a Google search. Import an image of the pattern to your computer as an image file (jpg, png, tif). Create a plane in SketchUp that’s the height and width of the curved wall. The plane should be within the wall component. Import the hatch pattern to the plane as a texture. Right click on the hatch pattern and choose Projected from the menu. On a Mac, press command as you click the Paint Bucket in the plane. Then click in the middle of the wall. That should project the hatch pattern over the curves.
