Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Architectural Design with SketchUp
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In a large model, the filter function of the Outliner window helps reduce the number
of components and focus on what you are looking for. Just make sure you include useful
text in your naming (e.g., “building1-floor3-window6”) so that you can search easily.
PRO ONLY
Generating Reports of Groups and Components
If you have the Pro version of SketchUp, you can
reap another benefit from using groups and
components: You can generate a report from
your model. To do this, select the objects you
want to have reported (the entire mock-up in
our case) and go to File k Generate Report…
This opens the following dialog, where you can
specify whether you want the report to be generated
as an HTML file (a webpage for viewing
in a browser or opening with Word) or a CSV
(comma-separated values) file (for import into,
for example, Excel). See Figure 3.6.
The report generated from our framing model
then looks as shown in Figure 3.7.
Figure 3.6: Generate Report dialog
Figure 3.7: Model data imported to Excel (some columns removed)
As you can see, not only does this report contain the objects, their hierarchy locations, and
component definition names; it also includes their locations in space (not shown in Figure 3.7),
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