6 ways to calculate cost using native SketchUp tools

Is it possible to use native SketchUp features to calculate cost in your model based on length, volume, or area? Find out in this video!
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00:00 - Intro
1:16 - Price by fixed cost
5:01 - Price by Length
8:34 - Total QTY per Length
9:30 - Dynamic Components
12:59 - Price by Volume
14:35 - Price by Material
15:58 - Generate Report Shortcomings
16:42 - Quantifier
forums.sketchup.com/t/redraw-... - Link to forum with ruby snippet for redrawing selected components.
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[@bradmeacham6982]

Using the Scale Tool to change the size of different instances of your "2x4" component is a FANTASTIC tip/trick! I've always used "Make Unique" to do this, which leads to a messy proliferation of similar "2x4" components.

[@klepantara]

Thank you for this video. This is very usefull for industrial rack design.

[@erdeneekhuyagtbaatar2244]

Thanks a lot for sharing great knowledge

[@Mastersketchup]

I just wanted to point out that in Generate Report, you can change the unit settings so instead of showing feet and inches, it shows a decimal unit. Don't forget to change the precision too. This will allow you to play with the data much more easily in Excel. Let me know if you have any additional questions!

[@EmelianusJr]

Sir, please make a tutorials how to make air plane at sketchup, especially in making aircraft nose. Thank U

[@marinaarzolla2992]

Thank you so much!

[@69gatonestor]

e estado peleandome desde hace un mes para saber como cuantificar mis piezas, muchas gracias¡¡¡

[@kcreativez128]

which version shows advance option

[@arckitt4197]

Really enjoying the content. Quick question, at 9:22, the report is showing the 2X6 LenZ as 5.5". This is because it is a header and laying horizontally correct? So if you depended on this for a take off, you would be seriously short on all headers and other horizontal members.

[@Mastersketchup]

Great catch! Looks like I goofed up on the orientation of the axes in that header. You're correct, I would have incorrect quantities. As with most things, garbage in, garbage out, and in this case, that error would be my fault, not SketchUp's.

[@arckitt4197]

@@Mastersketchup ok, thanks for the reply. I'm working through your (2) books now and really enjoying the content. Keep up the awesome work and look forward to learning all I can from your techniques. It's good to know I'm not the only one that makes a goof...seriously though, I appreciate it.

[@StrictlyHipHop]

Now I'm pretty new to Sketchup so please correct me if I'm wrong. But when you use the blue axis to calculate length, wouldn't you get the thickness so to say of the 2x4s that lay flat?

[@Mastersketchup]

Each component carries its own, local axis, so you have control over which direction the blue axis is facing inside of each component. But as you might imagine, it becomes really important to make sure you are extruding the 2x4 along the correct direction if you are extracting data from its length.

[@thebieniekmichal]

What do you think about that plugin by TIG to generate reports? sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=147658#p147658

[@55418und]

will this work with 80/20 materials?

[@Mastersketchup]

Like the aluminum extrusion product? Yeah, for sure. You can assign a fixed cost for hardware, and a length cost for the extrusion.

[@macroiu3778]

overall: a messy representation for tracking, why not let user filter based on singular or multiple options of size, name, material, layer before entering the unit price, fixed cost, duration or labor hrs manually etc., so as to generate output: excel or spreadsheets with timeline as report & as input after numeric revision from excel or ggogle sheet???

[@DeeManSony]

Why do Americans use imperial ?

[@alancooper9363]

Because base 12 has advantages over base 10. 12 inches in a foot is useful for more basic fractional divisions. Sad metric wasn't built on base 12 otherwise I am sure we would all be using it and all be more prosperous.

[@MrJujuthedude]

SketchUp won't fix bugs/things unless it suits them, utter contempt of users and misappropriation of funds (IMHO).

[@vladimiracevedo7236]

Thank you, this video help me a lot. ........ GO METRIC GUYS. ...... PEACE.

[@Accuface2000]

This is ridiculous