I'm having some trouble with paperspace as I need to xref my drawings for doing "demolished vs new" drawings.Īpart from the background being white I see the same issues. The issue seems low priority so that's probably why Trimble still hasn't tackled it properly, however this is a major hinderance on using Sketchup+Layout for a proper Architectural workflow. So I've chose to ignore consultants complaints, but with bigger clients knocking at my door, I'm absolutelly sure, that I will have to ditch Layout for good. Layout workflow is not so good, but Sketchup's workflow clearly pays uppon that, making Sketchup+Layout combo the best you can get for designing purposes. The thing is that exploding or not exploding, you have to ignore your Layout text color, style and justification issues, ignore your consulting teams complaints or simply have an insane amount of lost time fixing CAD exports.
But if you actually have a style or color override that you want inside your texts it will be lost. You can also think of exploding all mtext into dtext wich will facilitate things. Then you'll have to fix every text justification And only then can you change Your CAD's text Style's font and color, affecting all texts in the model. You'll also have to change Text Font to By Style You'll have to edit each single mtext to change the color of all the characters inside it to Color By Layer So if you change global style in a CAD file, you change nothing in your display Funny enough is that every text is also justified left. However each character inside an Mtext has got it's style overriden Each Mtext entity has a global style too Each single text entity is a Mtext, Layout makes no distinction between Mtext and dtext
Layout exports most texts creating a global style too. In CAD's standards you have a global text style and a color set by layer. so problem solved with a few more hours work. Now you can think that entities like lines and dimensions or leaders are probably not that hard to fix if you really need to. But if you want to use Sketchup in bigger projects, you'll have to figure out a way to do it. On small projects this might be easy to control as teams are small and usually picked by you. This will mean trouble, as you'll be the cause of the little grain that get's in the cog ruining all the clock. Most of them will have black backgrounds and probably will not understand what's going on either. So switching background to white is the easiest turn around.īut this poses a question that will probably hinder you later:ĬAD defaults to black background, and you are probably going to share your drawings with consultants.
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But I've given up doing that because the moment you need to update your exports, you'd have to redo everything. I have tried to switch every entity color to by layer and also tried to fix every layer's color to a standard. In theory you could change all entities to color by layer in you CAD file, however if you have a lot of CAD files this is, to say the least, painful. If your line is black in layout it will be black in Sketchup. Every entity has a single color that corresponds to the color set in Layout. It took me a while to figure this out! I hope that helps.Īll layout exports are not colored by layer. Elibjr wrote:Because the Sketchup lines are black, for some reason they DO NOT default to white when you insert the file into AutoCAD.
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