Go to
www.Autodesk.com download the free
DWG viewer. you can use that to view and print the files. When I did the
layout I was russhing so I just made a real big paper area and put the individual pieces all over it. Not my best drawing, but it's all there now I believe. Feel free to ask for any explainations or clarifications you might need. I think most of it is pretty self explanatory but, you never know.
As far as scanning you
theatre, Yes, you could do that. The hard part is converting from a raster
image < tiff, jpg,
etc file from a scanner> to a vector based file which is what AutoCad,
Vectorworks etc. use. I typically will scan a drawing, or have it scanned at a graphics company since it's usually large format, then resize it in Autocad, then basically
trace it to get a finished Autocad drawing. There may be better ways, but I'm very limited in only having AutoCAD 14, which is ancient. Once you have a
DWG file it's a very simple process to turn it into a rendered 3D object in SketchUp.
I have both my theatres rendered in SketchUp and I'm working on the rest of the building. As soon as it's all done I'll post the drawing on Google Earth. Once done I post a Link here and everyone can take a virtual tour of the entire facility. < except I'll probably put a CLEAN
desk in my office in the drawing.>