Thread: Cut List for Sketchup

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.



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

Originally Posted by Waldo

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/sketc...77fa79ae0bfb60) for further details.

Ciao,

M.

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

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

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