In the previous video, we went to file export and export a 2D graphic or JPEG of the image.
However, as we take a look at it, you can see it looks pretty good.
But if I want to be super detailed and nitpicky, you can see this kind of like fuzzy.
Yes.
Here, see a little like squiggly.
So if you want to get a more Chris line, the long approach is something I'll show in a separate video,
which has to do with sending it to layout to create an actual paper document.
But here, a simple approach is just to make sure your verticals are, in fact, straight by setting
this to be a two point perspective.
So let's see what that means.
So back in SketchUp, we're back into our rendering view.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to camera and I'm going to click two point perspective.
And I want you to notice what happens when I click on that.
It kind of looks like it tilts us down a little bit.
But what it actually did is it made all of your vertical lines, in fact, truly straight.
So if you were to print this out and take a ruler, you could take parallel lines running all your lines
straight.
So it's a true two point perspective.
So this looks like a better composition.
And then what I usually do after you do two point perspective here, you can kind of see up in the top,
it tells us we're in a two point perspective and it puts us on that pan.
So I'm actually going to drag down a little bit because now in this two point perspective, I don't
need to see as much ceiling.
You can kind of drop this a little bit.
So, like, right there, it looks pretty good.
If you want that as you're seeing, then just make sure you write, click and update the scene.
If you don't, it's going to bring you back to the original perspective.
So, again, camera two point perspective, drag down a little bit with the pan to center your view
and then.
Right, click and update the scene.
So now when I export this, I'm going to go to file.
I'm going to click on Export and Selected Graphic and I'll call this rendering just to save over my
previous image.
And I go to options just to verify what my settings are.
And those are the defaults, which is fine.
I click OK and click export.
I'll open back up that image and now you can see it is in fact much more Chris, much more straight.
So I'll use this quite a lot just to kind of create nice and straight images or renderings.
But be careful in that this only works when you're at an eye level or when you're at sort of standing
in the model.
For example, notice if I click on the top of you and then maybe export out this view here.
And let's say I don't want this to kind of angle.
I want them to be straight.
Well, it wouldn't make much sense to do a two point perspective because it's going to severely distort
the image.
So I notice out there what you could do instead orbit just to get out of that.
What we could do instead is we could go to camera and click on parallel projection.
Parallel projection is the same thing as a on a metric drawing.
Econometric drawings measure the same, so there is no perspective to them.
So if I were to print, the length of this line should be the same as this line.
So there should be no distortion from the perspective.
So what I usually like to do for this kind of export is I'll click on the top view and then I'll click
on ISO just to get me to a nice kind of.
Although it is.
Although this view is asymmetric, it's because we're in parallel projection.
Think of it as an X on a metric.
So I usually like these kind of diagrams a lot.
A lot of times I may just like hide.
So I might right.
Click and hide the walls or my organiser's in a way that I can kind of just see the furniture layout
I go to edit undo just to undo that, hide it here.
I like this so I might right.
Click and select, add and forseen eight over here in the right.
I'm going to rename this and just call it Akzo and enter.
So now we have a top view and we got that pretty nice econometric view.
So one other tip that I want to reference before we export in the next video as an animation or walkthrough
is if you want to export out multiple images at the same time, there is a way to kind of batch these,
but you can't pdf them.
So a lot of students want to go to file export and do a 2D graphic as a PDF.
But I highly discourage you, discouraging you from doing this because it's not a PDF in the sense of
a document here.
So it's not a multiple page document.
You do get options in that, you know, you can kind of export it out to a certain scale and you can
have different prompts and things like that.
But I never use this.
I should say I rarely ever use this.
The only time I use this is typically if I'm trying to export something from SketchUp to Illustrator,
if I'm creating a map.
So the reason for this is the file that exports.
It's a vector file.
It's.
Not a raster image, not a registered graphic, so notice what happens, although the model looks really,
really crisp and it's very, very crisp because it's all vector lines, it loses all the texture.
So you lose all any transparency or graphics or patterns to those materials.
So Pollock reporting as a PDF directly from SketchUp really isn't a great option unless you need it
for this particular reason.
So instead, I suggest you using Acrobat, you know, export out your JPEG and then combine them using
Acrobat Pro.
That's typically my workflow to create a PDF from multiple images and that's for something quick.
However, you can take a look in the next section where we'll actually send it to layout to create a
true paper document.
And that's where you can actually export out as a PDF with annotations and notes and dimensions and
things like that.
But before we get there, there's one last thing that I want to do in this section, and that is to
show you how to create a walk through animation.
So we'll do that in the next video.