Thanks Dave R, cool script. I will definitely be making use of this - this afternoon in fact. It would be even more useful if you could auto assign sequential page numbers in LO too. You could then associate the page numbers to the file numbers? But still a very useful tool and one that will be seing some action soon.

I would still like to know if it might be possible to name PDFs from pages within LO at some time in the future. Our studio like many others names files to send to contractors and being able to ref the names from within LO would be such a great way to keep files in order.

Thanks again

Thanks Jeff,
Will save my self the journey to the trash and just drag them out of my favourites list in future 😄
Cheers

I don't have a problem, if I did I'd have retained my ArchiCAD subscription. This thread started as a question of working methods, but it has evolved into what I hope are constructive suggestions for the future partnership of SU & LO.

I appreciate your responses but we clearly have different backgrounds and agendas for what we "expect" from the software. ☀

Here is the vector version

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Thanks mate, I know I know!! 👍

Hi Keea1111,

Are you working on a network and is anyone else opening the files you are working on? Ive had lots of issues with files going missing because Im working from a PC server (Im on mac) and the way that mapped drives are named on a PC is not recognised by macs. This means that if when my colleague (who works on PC) opens a LO file Ive worked on the linked SU files are missing when I open it.

Just a thought . . .

A few of my own findings...

Fairly obvious but dimensions don't autoscale after exploding the view not a problem, just set the scale manually.

You can "clip" a plan with the rectangular viewport before exploding, but you can't apply a clipping mask and then explode.

I have quite a few layers in my drawings and exploding makes editing or manually trimming seem quite complex.

Ok - have had someone technical look at this and got this email

" The problem is linked to mapped drives within windows, your colleague has a drive mapped for the server and the working folder to a letter i.e P(drive):
So when you try and open on the MAC, the mac is not aware of the drive letter so has to be relinked.
Possible way around this is to try and put the objects within the same folder and you use /<filename> "

I know packages like Adobe Indesign don't struggle with issues like this in terms of referencing files on a network - is it possible for SU and LO work in a similar way so that PC and Mac users can both reference files in the same way? Is this something that Google might address in the future?

Thanks

HI....

I emphatically recommend bonnie's book. LO stood in my HD for years without use. after I bought her book and went through the exercises its usefulness became clear to me and I started using it for all my presentations.

I use PDF995 it installs as a printer port on your computer, so you just print as if you were plotting your plans on a printer. it prints out in a pdf file on your computer and the file sizes are very reasonable. this way I can skip the whole export thing. I use it in autocad as well.

http://www.pdf995.com/

Tank you Dave

Because I like the auto referncing of SU dimensions when I make
changes to the SU file

Hi Anssi,
I looked and it says Adobe reader 9.

W.B.
Thanks for your reply-one more palm to forehead moment...
M.

It's not really a paint tool but a sample tool - similar to what the SU paint toll loks like when you press the Alt key (on Windows at least).

Have you tried a permissions repair, logging out, then restarting?

How about reinstalling your font book? Or reinstall from the disc that comes with your pc?

If I am making a publication where I must combine many kinds of material and SketchUp appears only as renders, and the material is unlikely to change, then I use InDesign or Illustrator, but for a presentation of a SU design, especially if design changes are likely to happen, LayOut has proven very useful to me, as updating the model is a snap, compared to outputting every view as a separate image or drawing file, postprocessing these to fit the publication, and adjusting every page for the inevitable glitches appearing in the process.

Anssi

Best is to keep it on automatic unless the model is very complex and LO is unresponsive. In that case, sometimes it's better to be able to control when it becomes unresponsive. (Just like automatic vs. manual saving in SU although of course, not that risky)

Well, I'm glad you got it sorted out while I was away.

By now you should have added your new scale to the list so you won't need to do that again.

Computer pre-age? How could we live without computers? Without internet??
😲 😲