Visual Schedule for Doors and Windows

Might be a bit too complex for what is possible, or even a bit over the top to what’s usually done as graphical schedulling inside Sketchup, but I’d love it if we could achieve this level of detail:


I don’t mind drawing details as 2D faces, which is what we usually do. I don’t know how others deal with details on custom projects like this, but I’d really like to know.

Here’s the full set:

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I think what I’ve been looking for since the beginning is an extension that takes the following inputs:

  • a 3D bounding box L x W x D at a model coordinate X,Y,Z (this could just be a component that contains the elements pertinent to the schedule, i.e. door parts, window parts, millwork parts, whatever)
  • a list of tags to turn on for the view
  • a scale for the layout viewports

And outputs a layout page to a scrapbook with the viewports on it with front elevation, and optionally side elevation, transverse section, and sagittal section views. The views will be at the input scale and showing objects under the input tags.

Shoutouts to @mbrightman @Cyentruk and @curic4su for having extensions that are pretty ■■■■ close to being able to do this already, just need a tiny nudge. But it might be too difficult or too niche.

If your needs are just simple like that. Curic Scene Manager can handle.
Please try this.

Sorry @Fredo6 for mention about another extension in your topic.

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Very neat work! - I do the same as you really; just draw in 2D either from cleaned up section cuts, or or from scratch.

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This looks very exciting. I would encourage you to continue. Once you have the UI and a pricing model, then please comment in this thread and I will certainly be one of the people having a closer look.

Love this description. Had a recent conversation with @joanne about this very thing. Why can’t there be a point established inside a room that then generates views/scenes in the four cardinal directions. To have that output as a scrapbook file sounds like ConDoc tools, but the idea of being able to establish any number of designated locations to generate scenes from would be great.

Additionally @Fredo6 I like your idea of housing that production within a plugin so that the scene list in Sketchup doesn’t get completely unmanageable. This has been one of my beefs actaully, the scene management system is antiquated. Would prefer a tray based UI instead with more features like export scene as Layout Scrapbook and data driven scenes for searching and organization.

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  1. How do you envision identifying the objects in the Configurator? Would this be by tag or a group naming convention?
  2. When you say that the model would need to be created by specialized plugins or tagged by 5D+ or IFC manager, does this mean that it would be plugin dependent or that objects would have to have a particular data set attached to them in order to work with the generator? Thinking in terms of custom libraries that are proprietary. I have a massive cabinet modeling library that is specific to my template with custom tags. If all I had to do was expand my data set for each component to match your generator, it would be a nice segue.
  3. How do you envision selecting views in the generator?
  4. Can you explain a bit deeper your “connecting points in Sketchup model” way of doing dimensions? Sounds intrigueing. Have seen plenty of bad implementations of auto-dimensions.
  5. Limitations of API’s. This seems unworkable unless this is limited to just a standardized schedule that always “prints” a certain way and NO labels, notes, or dims are added in Layout. Others that have posited that using it for elevations of interiors, would this be limiting to that use case? ConDoc Tools exports a scene linked to viewport inside a Scrapbook which is then able to be updated at the viewport level if changes occur. If FredoSchedule is generating scenes, why would they not be updatable in Layout? Can you explain why total regeneration would be needed?