Real World Google SketchUp 7, First Edition

Chapter Ten. Exporting Graphics from SketchUp

For some projects it may be necessary to print views of your model; at other times you may simply need to send digital images of the model (as JPEGs or PDFs). This chapter focuses on the all-important topic of documenting the work you’ve done in SketchUp in a presentable or shareable format (i.e., digital or paper-based documents). There are numerous ways to create and export graphics from SketchUp—perhaps more than this entire book could illustrate. With that said, this chapter includes information about the options that almost everyone encounters at some point: preparing your model for presentations, creating scaled graphics, printing from SketchUp, exporting raster graphics, exporting vector graphics, ...