Cut List for Sketchup

[martink]

Hi all,

Have come across this in my travels, it's a plugin for sketchup that generates a cut list from your drawings! Looks pretty good and it's free too. You can get it from the author's web page http://steveracz.com/joomla/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ and the official release thread is http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/daltxguy/blog/5143.

Ciao,

M.

[Waldo]

G'day Martink,

Excellent! I've been long waiting for a cutlist thing in Sketch-up. I sent some feedback to the blokes at Sketch-up berating the fact that there was no in-build method of automatically creating a cutlist.

:woot:

Where the heck to I put the stuff in Sketch-up to make it work?

[martink]

Where the heck to I put the stuff in Sketch-up to make it work?

You need to pop this into the plugins folder for Sketchup

The default location of the Plugins folder in Windows is:
c:\program files\google\google sketchup 6\plugins\

and for a Mac:
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/

I refer you to this (http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup-how-to/browse_thread/thread/53427c22566d3956/4c77fa79ae0bfb60?lnk=gst&q=how+to+install+a+plugin#4c77fa79ae0bfb60) for further details.

Ciao,

M.

[Waldo]

Thanks for that. I'll give it another go and see if it works now...

[BozInOz]

thanks for the heads up
if it works it'll solve what I saw as the main limitation of sketchup

[Ozkaban]

One trick I used for this was make components of everything. I did a brick fence design, so I drew a brick and a half brick and then used them to make the courses, then copied the courses, etc. At the end I went to Model info and it told me how many of each component I have used. bit of a PITA, but it worked. Oh, it works for nested components too (there's a checkbox on the model info page to show them).

Having said this, I will definitely use the cutting list plugin. I can stop reinventing the wheel now!

cheers,
Dave