@trogluddite said:

@jql said:

...pdf has missing lines. Submited to trimble...

Could be Adobe need a kick up the rear too. I see this problem on a regular basis when exporting PDFs containing images from plenty of other applications too - e.g. CorelDraw, MS Publisher, MS Word, etc...

I wasn't aware of that... Thanks for the info. But now the problem is even greater. What format would one use for this sharing of drawings between architect, client, contractor?

SVG?

On a side note, I also noticed that if I import the pdf to Gimp and print from there, the problem persists...

Hey guys,

Just thought I'd report back. We got it resolved. Our IT department installed without running it as an administrator, so we just had to remove and reinstall as admin. Hope that helps if anyone has troubles.

The TSWFA plugin was in beta before. It has now been released as ConDoc Tools http://www.sucondoc.com/

thanks for reply, yip found the scale tool.
Wouldnt it be great if you could scale scrapbook objects on import to drawings...eg 1:1 down to 1:10 or 1:20?

All,
We've created a help article on SketchUp's website that will walk you through your options for beating this issue.

http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000062

In Layout?

With circles and lines and the text tool? Try taking a look at the symbols in the scrapbooks tray... they seem very much like the ones in this example.

Mate I think it could be the case of all of the above! I think that how you present is based more on what you want to present and how.

If the presentation is a page type, or more a web interface.

Certainly LO has limits, and for client presentations other than fixed images it doesn't allow much by way of what you want to do! Sadly!

@dave r said:

Post an example LayOut file that shows this.

Is this leader text you've added in the SketchUp file or labels you've added in LayOut? If it is the latter, the best thing to do is put the labels on a layer higher in the list than the viewports.

Hi Dave,

I tried your method of putting the text layer higher and it works! Thanks Dave, you save my day.

Thank you again, I really appreciate your assistance 😍

make a copy of the drawing.
relink the model in the copy.
delete the viewports you do not want in the original.
copy and paste the viewports from the copy into the original.

not elegant, but it should update when you change the models.

hi friends,

The problem which i posted here is not solved. i tried with uninstalling and re installing sketchup 2013 and 2014 both.

bt the problem is the same.

i used ccleaner to clean registry entries after uninstalling sketchup.

bt problem remains same.

i installed the same sketchup versions 2013 and 2014 on another machine and it works fine.

Whts the problem then? how to clear traces of software?

can anybody help me?

You can change the paper size under File>Document SetUp>Paper. As dedmin alludes, the content won't get scaled with the paper size change. If you go from A2 to A1, you'll find the content is stuffed into the upper left corner still fitting into the space of the A2 sheet. You can only set one sheet size per LayOut file. If you need more than one sheet size you'll need to split it into more than one LO project. You can combine PDFs if needed in Acrobat or some other applications.

With you on that krisidious...

yes, yes and yes.

I did notice the blue # and saw that my "problem" must be related to this after I posted. I poked around but couldn't find where to change this. I don't know if this is workable but if there was an option to change start page numbering in a context click menu on that hashtag I might have found it.

In any case thanks for helping me with this. I will be sure to check out the official forum next time I have an issue.

I wish LayOut had and outliner panel. I think it would be very useful when placing or trying to select/edit/arrange multiple viewports and mask objects on a single layer.

Answer to orig question - right click tool bar and go as shown here:

CUSTOMIZE BUTTONS.JPG

Hi Andrew-

In 2014, there's no way to pull data out of the Skp Model using Auto-Text, but it's high on our list for future versions.

thanks,
Marc

Dave, Yes. As I wrote, it didn't seem to be working until I relaunched. And I was hoping there was a way to select a group of points and eliminate, as in some other applications. Thanks!

Hello!

I use this soft - http://www.ronyasoft.com/products/proposter/en/.
Its automatically calculating how many individual sections an image or photo needs to be chopped up in to, then letting you know how much paper you need, and what size.

@marcdurant said:

When this thread started in 2010, the Mac client would allow setting the opacity of text, but the Windows client couldn't set or even display text opacity. To avoid confusion, we recently (LO 2013?) disabled the opacity slider on Mac so that the platforms match.

Thanks,
Marc

So........and please pardon........the (hopefully temporary)solution was to have no/0 "client" ability to set text opacity. 😳

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