sketchup help needed

[Leon]

One thing to remember, most everything has a solution with Sketchup. ;~)

[Leon]

I'm still not quite understanding exactly what you are trying to accomplish here. Printing all of the parts is not hard at all. Printing all of the parts large enough to see is another issue.

And Printing to scale 2D is done in a specific way.

Resizing the Sketchup window also helps when printing and you want something specific to fill the page. Have that object also fill the reshaped window.

When I want to print a specific detail or portion of the drawing I often simply select that section, copy/CTRL C, open a new blank Sketchup drawing and past. Then all of the other parts do not come into play when printing.

This for me is simpler and faster than assigning to other layers.

[Leon]

One other thing here, you keep mentioning "explode". Sketchup defines "explode" as a function that makes a component a non component or a group a non group. It does not move parts/lines away from each other if that is what you are referring to.

If you are wanting to automatically move the assembled parts/components away from each other so that they are seperated, there is a plug in that will do that. I find the plug in finicky and more trouble to deal with.

Alternatively there is a plug in that will make everything disappear in the drawing except the selected component. This is a temporary action and is reversed by running the plug in again. That is known as the Isolate/Reveal plug in.

[none]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:48:40 -0600, Leon

In case anyone is interested, the Festool Owners Group has initiated a Sketchup discussion section..

Agreed, there's quite a bit of Sketchup knowledge here from people like Leon and Swingman. The FOG is also bound to have additional information.

And again, you can download the free version of Sketchup from here.