Thank you so much for the trick. This is very helpful, Dave.

Are you asking how to get the area enclosed in a shape you've drawn in LayOut? If so, there's currently no way to do that in LayOut. If you draw that shape in SketchUp and insert it into a LayOut file, SketchUp will provide the area to LayOut and it can be displayed via Auto Text in a label.

What version of SketchUp are you using? Your profile says you are using 2017 Make but if that is true, you wouldn't be using LayOut.

OK Thanks.

Thanks for reminding me, I had actually forgotten that

Ahh.... That's all different then.

A couple of other questions, then. Have you upgraded to 2019.2? When you installed SketchUp did you right click on the downloaded installed and choose Run as administrator or did you just double click on it to get it to run?

Maybe update your profile?

How about sharing the file so I can see what you are working with?

Thank you, sir.

According to the user's profile they wouldn't have LayOut anyway. It's probably posted in the wrong place but I wanted to make sure before I move it.

@unknownuser said:

When I go to styles and select Construction Documents... Any ideas?

First thing: Don't change the style in LayOut. Set the desired style for the scene in SketchUp. Avoid doing anything that results in the scene showing as modified in the SketchUp Model panel.

As for why half your model is disappearing, it's hard to say without seeing it. Upload the LayOut file so we can take a look and give you an answer.

You're welcome and you are right. If you use layers and scenes correctly in SketchUp you can easily employ stacked viewports to give you even more control.

Ok great, thank you!

Maybe something like this?
Screenshot - 7_6_2019 , 4_20_01 PM.png

I was thinking of pdf reduction, which (I guess) is trickier.

Within Applications, then Utilities, you should have a program called Activity monitor.

Open this, then right click on the symbol in the dock and change the dock icon to "Show CPU usage". This is quite helpful to see what programs are maxing out your CPU at a glance.

Also while you are within Activity Monitor, select "Memory" and look for "Swap used" at the bottom.

If you are maxing out your RAM at any point, it will be using part of your hard drive as RAM. This keeps the computer running, but can slow down the computer massively.

You can also get an idea as to what programs you can close to free up RAM. Some internet tabs - especially websites like Google Maps and YouTube can really eat into your RAM.

Hi. I didn't catch that the text got bigger for the dims. I guess I could have known that regular text objects would be out of place (but we weren't talking about that). Looks like in some cases dimension text will work. Maybe you have to choose a smaller text size when you are going to use SU text in LO. It looks like a only a text issue, the dimension lines look OK to me.

One important thing to keep in mind regarding layers in SketchUp is that they are not layers in the sense used by other software. Layers in SketchUp are only used for controlling visibility.

When you correctly follow the rules of layer use in SketchUp, you should find that your workflow is easier, smoother, and less prone to errors because there is no need to chase the active layer. Since Layer 0 is always the active layer and all of your edges and faces are associated with Layer 0, any edits you make to the geometry in groups or components will be "on" the correct layer no matter what layer is associated with the group or component.

You shouldn't even need to have the Layers panel open while you are modeling. If you always have a standard set of layers which is common in architectural work, those layers could be made in advance and could even be part of the default template. In my modeling, there are no standard layers. I create layers after the model is pretty well completed. In either case, once the layers are created, you don't really need the layers panel because you assign layers to groups and components in Entity Info.

FWIW, sharing files is a big help when you have questions. Thanks for doing that right out of the gate. When you share a LayOut file, the SketchUp model is embedded in it so no need to also upload the SKP file.

@nanodrone said:

Bonjour à tous,
Bien voilà mon problème ou du moins ma question.
J'ai un fichier sketchup avec 60 scènes et je voudrais l'exporter vers layout en ouvrant automatiquement 1 scène par page.
Je ne sais pas si c'est possible ou si je suis passé a coté de l'option dans sketchup ou layout.
Merci d'avance.

Pose cette question dans le forum "français" tu auras plus de chance d'obtenir une réponse.
cordialement

I reset the scene which did not help.
I did some dimensioning in SU and determined that Layout is reporting the diagonal distance!

sketchup-model-2.jpg

layout-dimensions.jpg

@pbacot said:

Very clear and eye-catching presentation. Very professional and hip. Maybe a little more variation in hue would make it a little more "restful".

Thank you kind sir!!! I't will have a lot more contrast if I can convince we get rid of the plane runway!

First, assuming your curves and line segments aren't continuous, you'll want to weld them first. TIG-Weld which is available from the PluginStore (look at the top of this page) will do that for you. Then, when you select the edge in SketchUp, Entity Info will tell you the total length. You can type that into a label or other text box in LayOut.

Alternatively you could use SketchUp's Text tool to add a label that displays the length of the edge. Although that is simple, I'm not a fan of it because I prefer the appearance of labels made in LayOut and the options to control their appearance. LayOut's Label tool will display the length of an individual segment of the edge but not the total length of the edge.

Top label was created in LayOut. The bottom one in Sketchup.