A few of my ‘issued for construction’ drawings will therefore be printed in colour. I’ve decided for this first project, to use colour is a simple and effective way to identify pattern and components within the structural elements. Thanks for your comment.Īlso, interesting discussion on the history of drawings and when colour should and shouldn’t be used. I’ve learned a few invaluable things lately, to help with the creating of clear & clean 2D details. But… those patterns you speak of can be applied just as easily to 2D details, as they can as Section Cut fills, with similar effect. Section cuts are more confusing than useful for much of this design. Section Cuts are just not cutting it with this design as the structure is comprised entirely of triangles and trapezoids at various angles. I’ve concluded, after this recent re-discovery of the built in patterns, and after playing with line weights and scales, etc, that the answer to my initial question, is to just put the time in experimenting with the different options until the drawings look as good as possible. And then it seems, I wasted a lot of time creating patterns from scratch. I had already created a separate file for my 2D detail drawings with an interest in keeping my 3D model a little tidier. Early on (January 2021), I had discovered those built in fill patterns, but then I forgot they were there when it came time to create the 2D details. This project is my first attempt at modelling and producing drawings. This is exactly the sort of feedback I was looking for. The issue here is that in LO the material appears blurry while the rest of the drawing is quite clear and distinct. In the LO SketchUp Model window, line scale is set to. The concrete architectural symbol is comprised of the dots, which are a material in SU, and the little triangles which are drawn in SU. Here are two screenshots, the first from SU, the second from LO. How do (the majority) of architects and engineers draw and render architectural symbols? I shall probably continue to explore the various methods to some degree but would be very interested in learning how I ‘should’ be doing this particular task. ( Working with SketchUp Dashes in Imported Models | SketchUp Help)īut I still feel like I’m reinventing the cart wheel when there is already an all-season, bullet proof, highly efficient wheel out there. This whole exercise of recreating the architectural symbols from scratch has been a great lesson on the application of line widths within SU and LO.Here is a great read on the subject, in the SketchUp Help Center. One of the consequences of applying different drawing and rendering methods is a lack of consistency in appearance between the final different drawings. I’ve even created symbols in Photoshop, imported them and added them to the SU file Materials list. Specifically, standard symbols for concrete, wall insulation, plywood, native soil backfill, etc. There are a number of ways to produce the architectural symbols required for detail drawings, including using the drawing tools available in both SU and LO.
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