A good example of the differences in layering from 2d to 3d.
A 2d layer can be used to obscure something because it will always be 2d.

I should have added the following.

If you have a border on the viewport before making the clipping mask, the clipped view will also show the border. So you could select the viewport before drawing the shape for the mask and turn on Stroke in Shape Style.

Change the font in your LayOut document and export to PDF.

As Richard points out and as has been shown elsewhere, it's possible that the problem is due to licensing of the font you are using.

Thank you

Maybe, at first sight you won't notice a difference between the imports in LO, but just open the SU-references in SU...then you can see that the Section-Cut has been filled in the SU18 file and not in the SU19 file.

Menu > View > Uncheck 'Guides'. That'd hide all guidelines without deleting them.

@aris said:

actually skipping one sleep, 'render night'
opportunity to brush up my Layout skills in the waiting times 😄

Very good. Efficient use of your time. 👍

@aris said:

P.S. I owe you one mousaka for your help 😄 😄 😄

Do you have 4 feet of snow on the ground and 64 KPH winds? If not, I'm headed for the airport. 😄

Maybe one day I will get to Greece and eat mousaka with you.

I replied in your thread about shadows not showing when you update the scene in SketchUp. It is exactly your workflow that causes that sort of thing. If you would actually create scenes that have the properties, including styles, and camera positions that you want to show in your LayOut viewports and you avoiding doing things in LayOut that result in the scenes showing as modified, you wouldn't have any problems.

Forgive my ignorance,,,,,,,but are you re sizing all images to the same extents in LO? (IE: like a postcard)
Just asking in case a template could be used to “snap to”....possibly even a SU model at scale in LO to be utilized for snap points.

Charlie

Thanks Dave

Any luck inserting the autocad drawing from yesterday?

Hmmmm...

Could you share the CAD file? Send it by PM if you don't want to make it public.

Keyboard shortcuts are set in Preferences in both SketchUp and LayOut.

Thanks! I didn’t realise I could use the precision symbol in that way. I’ll check out the text tool as well

Maybe this all gets resolved in 2019 Pro:

Release notes 2019

Vector and Hybrid rendering in LayOut

Fixed an issue where extra lines were seen when a section cut is coincident with a face when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut. Fixed an issue where extra lines were seen when extruded circles are cut along their center when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut. Fixed an issue where hidden divided edges on top of faces drew as if they were visible when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut. Fixed an issue where images incorrectly showed a border around them when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut. Fixed an issue where lines were missing when Vector rendering some plan view models in LayOut. Fixed an issue where extension lines were not drawn when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut.

Can you get a print-to-pdf program in Windows? I also tried this with screenshots and it worked OK.Looked pretty good but you probably have to scale up before you insert (to make it look OK) and so you lose the automatically scaling during an update. You have to make the screenshot with LO set to "actual size" zoom, but registration during updates is not automatic.

I sent you a PM.

...I mailed Trimble that the solution for now, is to export a 2d view to a *.skp format. Layout will be snappy and usable then.

Yes, sorry, the ticking box...

Thanks!

OK - Thanks.

DISCOVERED: If I leave LO's VP's as raster, the export process generates a .dwg file PLUS a folder containing the png image files. When the .dwg file is opened with AutoCAD, it xrefs the images - but you can freeze the images layer to have a wireframe visual style, if desired.

Hi there! I did renew maintainance blindly too... And I am admitedly worried about the delay. My desktop is kind of old (well, it's old... welp, it's very old), but I had a brand new laptop I got on Saturday that makes LayOut a beauty to work with.

Also, I hope the YouTube channel releases Sonder's content as soon as possible, as he said in a podcast that he was showing the new and improved workflow he uses. I consider Mr. Sonder the God's child of LayOut, more than SketchUp: he surely is one capable modeller, but how he makes LayOut spin makes my mouth watering!

I also use "conventional" 2D cad extensively, and I find LayOut really falling behind when it comes to dimensioning. The best example I can give you is that it doesn't allow to round off at, say, 5 cm (sorry, I'm Italian and I am really bad with the Imperial system). In my work, and I can't find any way to make it work automatically, the only way around it is editing every singular dimension.
Another major flaw is not being able to suppress unwanted extension lines in the dimensions, or to stretch them all at once, not before entering edit mode for them... It REALLY is time consuming.
Also, area (square meters/feet) comunication between SketchUp and LayOut can be vastly improved. Again, nothing that makes it unusable, but a lot that makes it somehow... Clumsy!

I find many differences between US and Italian ConDocs (many of them I try to include in my pojects/documents), and I can see how SketchUp is clearly better suited to the US Standards. Again: it is very (very) usable for me too, and I strongly advocate shifting towards it whenever I can, but it lacks a thing or two to make it really comparable to 2D CADs for small works (which is not bad: I find every tool to be exceptional in one job and not the best in others... But my first try is always SU).

Aside of that, I don't think SketchUp should be stretched further in modelling features (there's the awesome comunity we have for that, and In my works - which goes to full buildings to furniture design - I really need a need just a couple to make my day go smooth, even with topography and terrain surveys - Toposhaper by Fredo6 is astonishingly powerful). I'd go to a better and more capable BIM compatibily, and considering Trimble owns Tekla, I'd say it could be an option we'll see.