I reset the scene which did not help. I did some dimensioning in SU and determined that Layout is reporting the diagonal distance! [image: gj4i_sketchup-model-2.jpg] [image: vRB8_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. [image: pnvW_Screenshot-5_16_201910_48_50AM.png]

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.