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Scaled Drawings Plugin for SketchUp

Discussion in 'Helpful Tools' started by GrayUK, Sep 20, 2018.

  1. GrayUK

    GrayUK Openbuilds Team Elder
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    This is a Plugin to be used with SketchUp to produce scaled print-outs from your drawings.
    7050 Sphinx
    Do use the tools in SketchUp to have the part Square to the camera.
     
  2. Giarc

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    It is what I used when I hand cut my CNC plates. It works very well. I had to download both programs for my computer.
     
  3. David the swarfer

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    to get correctly sized printouts you need to turn off the camera perspective.
    if you don't you can never print at 1:1 true size ratio.
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  4. GrayUK

    GrayUK Openbuilds Team Elder
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    I've got my scaled prints out David. :thumbsup:
    Needed to turn off "Fit To Page" and "Use Model Extents" as well.:rolleyes:
    Thanks for the help. :D
     
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  5. KEN MACDONALD

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    I loaded this on to Sketchup Make on my MAC.

    I then opened up Terminal and ran these commands.

    brew update

    brew upgrade

    brew install ghostscript

    brew cleanup

    Reboot and open Sketchup Make.

    Select CAMERA/ZOOM EXTENTS on your drawing and then select CAMERA/PARALLEL PROJECTION is selected.

    Select FILE/DOCUMENT SETUP and untick FIT VIEW TO PAGE.

    Then enter 1.00 in both boxes on the PRINT SCALE section to print full size, thats assuming the print will fit on an A4 page. If not you can adjust the scale to suit.

    After doing this I can finally print to scale.
     

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