If you install this plugin you can export the faces of a sketcup model into a vector drawing (SVG). The website is here. Shortcuts:
- k = xray
- space = select
- s = scale
- p = pull/extrude
Component: easily selectible, only do this when you have it completely built Websites Availble for more information:
Extensions:
- Skelion_2d_simplex_bool_v2.0.2.rbz
- sketchup-stl-2.0.3_1.rbz
- smustard_Weld_2
- su_shapes_110
- tt_texteditor-1.1.4.rbz
- rob_cloud_v1.5.rbz
- RND_FaceSplit_v1.0.0.rbz
- SimLab_PDFExporter_3.2.0_0.rbz
Printable: Select, right click, and pick entity info. if you don’t see under volume, then it is not a manifold model and should be printable. Component: when you change one, it will change all copies of it unless you said make unique How to cut up a model for printing multiple times:
- make model into a component
- Create a box line all the way around the component model this will let you draw on the component but not modify the component
- Create a mid point bounding box, then a box to cut the model in the center
- intersect with selection, explode the component, the do views to only grab the sections of the model you want to capture
- From there copy/paste away into the sections, fix them so they will print individually, then print
Things to research:
- how to create a negative for an object (put a screw into a piece, and have it create the hole for the screw)