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    Default Getting Sketchup to print technicial drawings?

    Hey guys,

    I have laid my mod design in Sketchup, but am wondering how can I get it to print each part of my design as life size and/or technician drawing style.

    What I really want is away to turn my Sketchup design, into something I can print, that has parts of the case I can then trace onto cardboard, or print onto cardboard to make a mockup.

    Is this possible?

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    Default Re: Getting Sketchup to print technicial drawings?

    I know I have seen the answer to this before. Assuming you made your drawings to scale then I _think_ what you are looking for is some print parameter "print to scale". You might have to mess with the printer settings and de-select "fit to paper" or "scale to fit". Not sure since I don't have Sletchup installed on this system.
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    Default Re: Getting Sketchup to print technicial drawings?

    I used this when it was beta but haven't touched it since. Maybe it can help

    Its a plug-in for sketch-up that prints foldable models (insert tab a into slot b)
    http://waybe.weebly.com/

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    Default Re: Getting Sketchup to print technicial drawings?

    Quote Originally Posted by Airbozo View Post
    I know I have seen the answer to this before. Assuming you made your drawings to scale then I _think_ what you are looking for is some print parameter "print to scale". You might have to mess with the printer settings and de-select "fit to paper" or "scale to fit". Not sure since I don't have Sletchup installed on this system.
    Thanks, I had tried that previously, but it printed the design quite massive, and would have spread across 1000+ pages for some strange reason. Will try the Waybe/Pepakura method, and see what happens, but I am not sure if it will allow it to scale.
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    Default Re: Getting Sketchup to print technicial drawings?

    might try google layout
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    Default Re: Getting Sketchup to print technicial drawings?

    Quote Originally Posted by Trace View Post
    might try google layout

    Yeh I did try that, but I had probably done it wrong as it ended up with like 1k pages.
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