Thank you! Our Bay Area, California Horticulture and Environmental Design Program at Foothill College is in full swing with this program and we appreciate it. :)
Screen text, since it is always shown despite the view, it can be very handy to make notes to others on your design team or to client. Great for doing a To-do list. When you reopen a model in a week or so later, you'll find a reminder you can't ignore.
Thanks Aaron. I was modeling a concrete structure with a lot of footings, columns and beams. The labels were very useful to not get confused with similar elements in the model. Which one was F1 and which was F2 and so on with the other elements of the structure.
I teach set design and technical drawing (by hand and with SketchUp Pro) for a professional theatre program in Canada (near Montréal) for five years now. I use it also extensively for my practice (a least 10 years). Always fun and helpful to see your videos. Little things that help a lot specially for the beginners. Simple and effective. Sometimes, it's good to refresh our memory to. Continu the good work.
Good one Aaron. There's also several options when you align the dimension text to the dimension. Helps to create Layout-like dimension without going into Layout.
This was excellent. You touched on an important issue at the end. Dimensions and text are not entities. This leads to my problem. I have created several static scenes generated by Tags in a cabinet project. Doors, Face Frames, Carcasses, Drawers, Hardware etc. When I add text to a scene with or without a leader. The text is visible in all of my scenes. looking for some advice to be able to add text in these scenes and have it stay in that scene only...
I never knew the things I didn’t know I could do but once you told me 3 times in the beginning I knew the things you told me I didn’t know I could do I can now do but I didn’t know .
The one problem I have with Layout dimensioning is that you can't add aligned dimensions to a perspective or orthographic view like you can directly in sketchup.
That’s odd. I was doing just that the other day. (I think!) Are you talking about pulling out a dimension so that the line that runs end to end is parallel to the edge you’re measuring? Granted they were doing their level best to snap horizontally or vertically but I did get them to work. I’m using SU 2018 pro.
@@jonomoles I think this issue has been resolved since my initial comment to this video. I can't recall which version I would've been working on at that time.
Aaron, is there a way to preset the dimension font before you even start modeling. Some of us with older eyes have a hard time seeing the small font. Thanks in advance.
Model info is saved with the template. That means you can change the dimensions properties in an empty model, then save it as a new template. Then new models created with this template will include the larger dimension text!
Aaron, is there a way to put text directly onto a surface and have it be part of that surface? I know 3D text can be put on any surface but I'm looking to find a way to place flat text directly onto a surface and have it become part of the surface. Example would be, let's say I'm drawing a cafe with a brick exterior and I want the name of the cafe to be painted onto the brick surface. Is there a way to do this? The way I do it now is I actually draw the letters on a separate flat surface, make them a group, lay that group onto the intended surface and then explode the letters. Then with some quick erasing and painting I get the letters to look like they were painted onto the surface. Just wondering if there is an easier way. Thanks. Adam
3D text with Extruded turned off is how I would do what you are talking about. I would make the text on the surface then explode it to have it intersect with the wall. At that point, it’s just geometry and can be manipulated like any other lines!
Thanks for sharing. I did not know about the situational-dependent text (point, line, surface). In the past, I have on occasion used a special symbol (I cannot remember it now) for including computed values inside a user description and I assume it works for lines and surfaces too. Can you remember that special symbol or has it been removed?
@@aarondietzen2995 Ah found it. It is the double angle bracket "" but it only works in the dimension tool where for example I can type in "Leg length = " and it will substitute the actual length for the "". Pity this option is not extended to the text tool
Two questions. does text and/or dimensions show up in a Layout view port? Or can it be on a layer that can be toggled on and off. Would you consider doing a video on drawing to scale as 2D directly into Layout. Perhaps one Layout page with different scales say 1/4' = 1'-0" for a plan and 3/4" or larger for a detail. Thanks Arron I appreciate your videos.
I've worked with many 3d systems in the last 30 yrs. Only after I retired did I discover SketchUp. The BEST!
Sorry we did not let you know about SketchUp earlier!
Thank you! Our Bay Area, California Horticulture and Environmental Design Program at Foothill College is in full swing with this program and we appreciate it. :)
Screen text, since it is always shown despite the view, it can be very handy to make notes to others on your design team or to client. Great for doing a To-do list. When you reopen a model in a week or so later, you'll find a reminder you can't ignore.
It is a great way to throw notes into a model... plus they are impossible to ignore!
Thanks Aaron. I was modeling a concrete structure with a lot of footings, columns and beams. The labels were very useful to not get confused with similar elements in the model. Which one was F1 and which was F2 and so on with the other elements of the structure.
I teach set design and technical drawing (by hand and with SketchUp Pro) for a professional theatre program in Canada (near Montréal) for five years now. I use it also extensively for my practice (a least 10 years). Always fun and helpful to see your videos. Little things that help a lot specially for the beginners. Simple and effective. Sometimes, it's good to refresh our memory to. Continu the good work.
Glad I could help!
Good one Aaron. There's also several options when you align the dimension text to the dimension. Helps to create Layout-like dimension without going into Layout.
True! A lot of people don’t realize that you can put your dimensions text “on the ground”
Very useful. Always found fonts too small. Now I know how to fix.
Thanks Aaron. Cheers! Chris.
This was excellent. You touched on an important issue at the end. Dimensions and text are not entities. This leads to my problem. I have created several static scenes generated by Tags in a cabinet project. Doors, Face Frames, Carcasses, Drawers, Hardware etc. When I add text to a scene with or without a leader. The text is visible in all of my scenes. looking for some advice to be able to add text in these scenes and have it stay in that scene only...
I never knew the things I didn’t know I could do but once you told me 3 times in the beginning I knew the things you told me I didn’t know I could do I can now do but I didn’t know .
And now those things that you did not know you did not know are things that you now know, you know?
not to forget autotext for dimension in sketchup . Try : Length is
The one problem I have with Layout dimensioning is that you can't add aligned dimensions to a perspective or orthographic view like you can directly in sketchup.
That’s odd. I was doing just that the other day. (I think!)
Are you talking about pulling out a dimension so that the line that runs end to end is parallel to the edge you’re measuring?
Granted they were doing their level best to snap horizontally or vertically but I did get them to work.
I’m using SU 2018 pro.
@@jonomoles I think this issue has been resolved since my initial comment to this video. I can't recall which version I would've been working on at that time.
Aaron, is there a way to preset the dimension font before you even start modeling. Some of us with older eyes have a hard time seeing the small font. Thanks in advance.
Model info is saved with the template. That means you can change the dimensions properties in an empty model, then save it as a new template. Then new models created with this template will include the larger dimension text!
Aaron, is there a way to put text directly onto a surface and have it be part of that surface? I know 3D text can be put on any surface but I'm looking to find a way to place flat text directly onto a surface and have it become part of the surface. Example would be, let's say I'm drawing a cafe with a brick exterior and I want the name of the cafe to be painted onto the brick surface. Is there a way to do this? The way I do it now is I actually draw the letters on a separate flat surface, make them a group, lay that group onto the intended surface and then explode the letters. Then with some quick erasing and painting I get the letters to look like they were painted onto the surface. Just wondering if there is an easier way. Thanks. Adam
3D text with Extruded turned off is how I would do what you are talking about. I would make the text on the surface then explode it to have it intersect with the wall. At that point, it’s just geometry and can be manipulated like any other lines!
@@AaronMakingStuff I'm sketching as we text and I tried your solution. As always it worked. Thanks a bunch.
Thanks for sharing. I did not know about the situational-dependent text (point, line, surface). In the past, I have on occasion used a special symbol (I cannot remember it now) for including computed values inside a user description and I assume it works for lines and surfaces too. Can you remember that special symbol or has it been removed?
Not sure if another tool (besides text) to call out info...
@@aarondietzen2995 Ah found it. It is the double angle bracket "" but it only works in the dimension tool where for example I can type in "Leg length = " and it will substitute the actual length for the "". Pity this option is not extended to the text tool
Two questions. does text and/or dimensions show up in a Layout view port? Or can it be on a layer that can be toggled on and off. Would you consider doing a video on drawing to scale as 2D directly into Layout. Perhaps one Layout page with different scales say 1/4' = 1'-0" for a plan and 3/4" or larger for a detail. Thanks Arron I appreciate your videos.
Dimensions WILL show up in LayOut, but they will be model window elements (not LayOut dimensions). I will add your video idea to the list!
@@aarondietzen2995 Thanks
Nice video
Better indexpics Please!
Do you use Trial version?
In this video I am (my normal computer is in the shop and I am using a loaner)
screen text...boom
Screen text, neat.
Downvoter strikes again, and early.
You just can’t make everyone happy!