Hello All!
We have been using Google sketchup for our timber frame design which has been working well fairly well but there have been some problems. Google Layout seems to be the best way to produce high quality shop drawings from Sketchup. What is the normal sequence to transfer from Skechup to Layout as per dimensioning the drawings. The guy that is doing the drawings seems to have difficulty pulling measurements in Layout. Any advice on this would be appreciated. I do not handle the sketchup directly, but I will pass it on.
Also, there seem to be certain joints the do not want to show up in Sketchup for him. Tongue and fork joints for example. He says that Sketchup does not like angles or curves. He ends up drawing them manually with the line tool which seems to make the shop drawings goofy. I'm sure that there is a proper method for doing this as it is a pretty common joint. Any advice?