Importing Images into SketchUp

[Ellis307]

(Sorry me again)

I am about to have a stab at the village garden 3.2 and I was wondering…is there a way to import the image into Sketchup and scale it according to the scale given in the image to save time flicking backwards and forwards?

Ellis

[oshepard]

Yeah, of course. Not sure if this willl work, but, have you tried just typing down the size and press Enter, as you did with measurements using the other tools?

If it doesn't work, what I usually do in other software is creating a Plane, give it the size I want/its actual size, and attach the image as a texture in one of the faces. In Sketchup that'd be a rectangle, so press R, create a rectangular plane, type down the measurements, press Enter, and then import the picture in order to snap it from vertex to vertex.

Let me know if it worked! 👩‍💻

Coré.

[Ellis307]

The issue with the image is that there is a scale but no overall size for the structure. I guess its possible to keep stretching the image until I measure the scale at the side of the image to be 10m. Its this one I’ve managed it very crudely b stretching the scale appropriately but there has to be a nicer way!

[gabrielbodard]

Yes, I did a very similar thing: used the scale on the image to calculate the size in metres of the whole building (with a ruler against my computer screen!), and drew a rectangle with those dimensions, then pasted the image as a texture in that rectangle. It's a bit crude either way…

[oshepard]

@gabrielbodard and @Ellis307

The easiest way is editing the picture previously with another software so it has the size you want (eg. Photoshop or even Paint). They have "rulers" inside and you can adjust it as you prefer.

[Ellis307]

Gotcha! That's really helpful thank you.