Getting Sketchup to print technicial drawings?

[ChevronX]

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?

Thanks

[Airbozo]

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.

[Mach]

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/

[ChevronX]

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.

[Trace]

might try google layout

[ChevronX]

might try google layout


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