Usually 3000 pixels or 4000 pixels wide will do it, depending on how I plan to use the image. That’s why I start with the widest one, as it will determine the scale. Each will be at the same “scale” on screen as the first one. Do this for all four sides or as many as needed.Rotate out so that the next side can be seen, create a new section, align face, etc.That way the scale of the next view will be the same as the first one. For the next elevation, don’t zoom – only pan and rotate view.Save that as a scene after getting shadows, etc. Pan and zoom so that it almost fills the screen. That leaves me with an elevation view of the building.Then select a face on that side and Align View. Starting with the widest side of the model, create a section cut through the base looking at the side of the building.Have the model on a terrain base that is a solid (it has the terrain top, flat sides, and a flat bottom) so that when it is cut in section the section fill will fill it in.Create the SketchUp model in sufficient detail with materials, etc.Does anyone know if that can be done or has been done?įor reference, here is how I do my elevations now: I’m thinking of a plug-in to Bricscad or Autocad that might work the way you can import a scene into Layout and have it hot-linked to the Sketchup file. I have a system that works well enough but is somewhat cumbersome, and I wonder if there might be a better way (not Layout – that does not have the CAD functionality I need). Generally they look better than elevations drawn with vectors (assuming resolution is sufficient) and I can get material colors, shadows, etc. I use raster images exported from SketchUp as elevations in my CAD program. But 3D modeling for almost every job is done in SketchUp. My construction documents are done in Bricscad (a very good Autocad clone), all in 2D so no BIM or anything like that. Hi, I’m an Architect and have been using SketchUp since Version 2.
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