Hi David, this is Drew from QA on LayOut. Would you mind sharing a copy of the file with me directly? If we have it in house we can run some diagnostics on it and hopefully tease out the error. This issue is nearly impossible for us to re-create from scratch. You mentioned that is has been occurring for some time for you. Do you recall the earliest version of LayOut you saw it on? Also, what type of machine are you using? Thanks David and I'm sorry for this frustrating issue. My email address is drew@sketchup.com if you'd like to talk directly or send a file.

@dave r said:

That's an interesting method. I do something similar once in awhile. I draw the line, copy it with Ctrl-C and then edit the original to make it white. Then Ctrl-V to paste the copy over the white one.

More often, when I need those lines, they are drawn in temporarily in SU. After I've traced over them in LO, I go back to SU, delete the lines and save the file. The viewport gets updated when I go back to LO.

I'll have to remember this one. Thanks

Though this is an older post and I am wondering if a solution has been found.
This is an issue for me also when creating architectural drawings that are geo-located, and wishing to dimension them in Layout,

My current work around is the following workflow

Geo-Location -> Add Location Measure angular offset (A) of a dominant axis of the building floorplan (as seen in the Google Earth Satelite Image) from the Sketchup default Y-Axis Make a copy of the Geo-Location Images, and rotate these by the negative angle from previous step (-A). These can now be used for tracing the floorplan etc Adjust Solar north by an angle of (-A)

Now I can get orthographic dimensions in layout for the standard views ( but not for any aligned views unfortunately)
Solar North will be correct, as will be Latitude and Longitude.
Drawbacks are the hassle of this workaround and the fact that I am only to get orthographic dimensions from the standard 6 views, whereas elevations offset from these are quite common.

See below for a simplified example showing the problem.
The red box has been drawn with the axis at default orientation, the green box was drawn with axes rotated 30degrees from the standard axis orientation.
The first view is a standard front view using parallel projection, and all orthographic dimensions are correct.
The second view has been aligned to the green front face, and is also a parallel projection. This view also has Ortho activated in the model settings in layout. Note that the red box shows 3d dimensions and not orthographic

Orthographic dimension problem

How about hiding the edges at the seam line and any faces in that seam in each group in SketchUp? Then you don't need to worry about creating a mask in LO.

I do this sort of thing frequently to disguise that there are two separate components next to each other. I did that on this chair, for example.
Barrel Chair.png

Thanks Rich...

Maybe I was not clear in explaining my problem. The reason they are unreadable is because they are too small and hence hard to read.
Thanks

You're right. I forgot about that. So I edited my original post to leave out that confusion. Thanks!

On Mac I can insert PDF OK, I can manual resize OK, but can't check box to Preserve Scale on Resize once I've got it right. Or uncheck Ortho. Is there a workaround that does not involve getting PDF scaled to suit before insert?

@dave r said:

Richard, I've never had any problem with shapes failing to fill.

But your method works, too. To each his own. 😉

David, if your shape is rectangular and only one side to be remove there is no issue. However if you draw a rectangle and assume you wanted opposing edges to be deleted (so slice on all corners) the fill will fail.

Dave's a helper!!!! You need to be paid by Trimble mate!

If this is happening after unlinking and embedding --could be a bug. but maybe it's too late and you are embedding the altered version of the SU file. So you've lost the old version?

A good find. Thanks again.

At certain zoom levels it get wiggly for me. at others not. On a MBP, Preview. And it changes if I put in on another monitor. I think you see better results on a Retina display, but few people have those--and good printing is important.

Hi guys...Thanks for heads up though. Dave, Please i use sketchup for all my drawings and seem to have my way around all issues and produce very good works that people think its Cad.
However i dimension from wall to wall. That's fine as its very precise but i want to know how i can dimension center to center too. I sometimes create grid lines centers of all my walls and group them then, before i pull them up, save as a scene on different layers. it works fine but any changes after extrusion i.e pull up creates another problem and i go bak to dimension wall to wall.

i wish to ask if there is a go around or easy approach to center to center dimension of walls in layout. With columns is easy because you have them distinct members but walls run through and picking center to center in Layout is not easy at all.

Hope to get some trick from u guys.
Thanks to Sketchup guys..

I have the same issues with LO 2015 (and 2013 /2014). Located the folders, nothing in there. I'm on a Mac running Yosemite if that makes any difference.

If you haven't had the problem with other files, I would start removing the references in the problem LO file to see if it's one of them.

Thanks, I was thinking something along these lines. Funny is, that it is my integrated graphic card even though i have another nvidia card. I probalby need to change the priority or renstal drivers for both of them.
It good to now that, problem is on my side and i can focus on fixing it.

D.

@driven said:

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The pages/Scenes have no style settings and are only for the camera...
with this one i'm using ImageMagicks to resize at higher dpi and switching to a vivid background to keep the white material when making the background transparent...

I can probably do it with built in apple stuff but this is an attempt at being cross platform...

john

Pretty cool. I'll pm you when I get a set of drawings off my desk. Been head down and drawing all week.

Thanks Dave!

@rounded1 said:

OK, looks like we've worked out where the problem lies. Here's for the benefit of those who may have similar issues:

When a file is created in Sketchup and sent to Layout, all the information about that file, including lighting, gets sent to Layout. If you subsequently make changes to your Sketchup model and update Layout, those changes are applied to the Layout file. All except the light and shadow. Light and shadow only gets updated if you save the changes in the Sketchup model first.

Our solution will be to change the light and shadow settings in the templates used so that the correct settings are available to Layout from the start.

Thanks to all who took an interest!

Your description makes it clear you aren't working with SketchUp and LayOut correctly. The proper workflow is to create scenes in SketchUp that get used as viewports in LayOut. If you need to make changes in the SketchUp model that include changes to the style, shadow settings, etc. you need to update the scene(s) in SketchUp and save the file. then in LayOut, update the reference and the changes you made will be displayed in the viewport.

It is important that you maintain the link between the SketchUp scene and the LayOut viewport. If the scene associated with the viewport in the SketchUp inspector shows as modified, the link between scene and viewport has been broken. Avoid breaking that link by not editing the viewport in LO.

It is also important that styles used in scenes in the SketchUp file do not show as modified with unsaved changes. If the style thumbnail shows circular arrows, it has been modified but the changes are unsaved. click on the thumbnail to update the style.

There's a warning window that should pop up when you try to create or update a scene with a style that has unsaved changes. If you have disabled that warning, enable it. Then when that warning appears choose either create new style or Update existing style as appropriate.