LayOut Feature Requests

DROP SHADOW BY LAYER - OR TAGS

TIG — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:55:32 GMT

@rv1974 It is always a good idea to give some context to your post - otherwise confusion reigns... You seem to want to ambush me with an unanswered question of some months ago in another thread, about a completely different tool... I am not clairvoyant. I see your 2dTools Fillet issue, but I am not going to fix my code. It's well over a decade old and it already has issues with some other of its tools in the latest versions of SketchUp. It is free-ware after all... But if you want to adjust my code please feel free... In 2DfilletTool.rb... in lines#380 and #386 remove the # so the edge is erased... works for me. On reflection, I've posted the corrected RB file in the original thread, which you should substitute in the 2Dtools subfolder and restart SketchUp to sync. It will break the 'signing' but provided your Extension Manager's Loading Policy is set to 'Unrestricted' it will load OK...

Help Me Create a Custom Sketchup Plugin to Auto-Populate My

Dave R — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:03:19 GMT

You don't need an extension to do this. Set up your SketchUp template with the scenes already named. Make a simple model in that template to use as a proxy SketchUp model you insert into your LayOut template with the viewports arranged on the sheets as you want. When you start a new project in SketchUp use the template with the scenes you created. You can change the camera position and other scene properties to suit the new model but leave the scene names as they are in your template. Then when you're ready for LayOut, open the LO template and in Document Setup>References, relink the SketchUp reference to your project file. The viewports will all update to show the scenes from your project model. FWIW, an extension won't make the viewports display the model any faster. LayOut will still have to render them. Likely there are things you can do in your SketchUp file to optiize it so the rendering time is reduced. I'm going to also guess you could manage with fewer scenes in the model if you wanted to.

[GRANTED]Programmable <AutoText> + Labels = Joyful AutoLabel

Krisidious — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:50:03 GMT

Is scale an option here? scale of the model in layout?

Rotated Dimension

pipingguy — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 12:53:52 GMT

I use version 21. Thank you for the solutions. All that's left to do is adjust the left side extension line's end point to provide a gap.

Layout Extension

Andrew222 — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:24:23 GMT

Hi Jesse, What you are wanting done is well within my area of expertise and I would be glad to help you out. You can reach me on andrewjohnson.56782@gmail.com Cheers, Andrew

LayOut dimensions/ shape style

shawb — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:07:25 GMT

Welcome to the forum DaniVork. I doubt if the Layout dimension tool could be made to recognise different dimensioning end points. However, you can set up as many dimension styles as you need within the same Layout file. Use a dummy dimension on the page and sample it with the eye-dropper tool before adding a new dimension. Or, use the eye-dropper to update an existing dimension. Ideally, save your dimension in a Scrapbook to use in future work. The Layout dimension system is very customisable, you could, for example have the astrix you like on just one end of the dimension line. Good luck!

Hybrid render all viewports at export

Jupeter — Tue, 19 May 2020 08:25:02 GMT

thank u

Support for Flux Architect

Dave R — Fri, 15 May 2020 15:54:45 GMT

That doesn't seem to help but maybe more experimentation is in order.

PDF Import To Scale

Prospector — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 18:07:02 GMT

Thanks juju, Foxit looks promising. We're trying it out now. In all our web searches it never came up. And thanks pbcot. That's a great tip for importing PDFs to scale. I actually really like LO. If only it were faster!

Layout - Batt Insulation Pattern

pedrinalex — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:31:01 GMT

@Rich-O-Brien said in Layout - Batt Insulation Pattern: Tuesday. I should have it sorted by Tuesday. Hello, Do you have notices ?

Layout FR

yecine06 — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:56:35 GMT

did you find something at the end ? i'm looking for some scrapbooks and patterns

Print to separate pdf with name of page

pbacot — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:37:02 GMT

Thanks for the info.

SU Layers in viewports

JQL — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:13:20 GMT

I've asked for this before too. It would be key. There's a huge gap between what happens in SU and LO. It will get better over time I guess, but...

Direct show/hide and lock/unlock layers

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 22:27:31 GMT

Auto Text Uppercase

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 03:18:16 GMT

DWG / DXF import into LO2017 / LO2016

juju — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 07:22:41 GMT

bump LO2016 is irrelevant to me at this stage, so LO2017 and onwards would apply. #pretty_please?

Auto-sizing text boxes

pbacot — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:43:56 GMT

Good point on flipped or mirrored text. We have come to expect computers software to help with more mundane tasks, such as cleaning up text, not work against us.

Snap leader to top line of text (always)

charevir56 — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:35:21 GMT

+1 I know is more than a year of this FR, but the behavior still the same. I only work with straight leader lines with/without elbow. With elbow the text is on the top, with no elbow (straight line) the text is on the middle with no option to fix the align on text window. The workaround is to make 2 straight lines to behave like a leader line with elbow.

LAYOUT Line dashes and arrows

JQL — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:45:26 GMT

[image: soEL_Capturar.JPG] When this happens you clearly know something is wrong and needs fixing. This is bad. However when this happens, people don't notice the tiny deviation and look at the error like it's correct. Much worse imho.

Label alignment

Charlie__V — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 08:59:24 GMT

@jql said: It's not easy for 100 labels and it's not easy if you want to change label position. Maybe so, but from 101 to infinity it is fairly easy to set right/left/center justify. Select Label.....Text Style.......Right/Left justify.....font size etc. and Go. Now if OP wants auto justify in relation to leader position, than I can see this as a useful feature. (with option to turn on/off if required) Or, when moving a label and the leader flips from L to R auto text justify would also be a time saver here. Charlie

Excel or csv import

Philw — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:04:47 GMT

Thanks for the reply, Ill try them out. If anyone from the Layout team is listening, it would be nice to at lease create simple tables like the one above in the next versions.

@#$%^&* edit SU model reference in LayOut

JQL — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 18:30:45 GMT

@brettsichellodesign said: Just have it in a right click menu would be a solution I think. Agree!

LAYOUT PAPER ORIENTAIONS

db11 — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 05:09:45 GMT

Seconded.

A better Autotext manager

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 17:07:57 GMT

Label and annotations text to change SketchUp model info

hank — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 15:09:24 GMT

I agree TommyK... basically its a good system. Could be better but has a lot of power built in. I am using Sketchup for space programming (bubble diagrams) and have found I can add custom properties to a component, then get Layout to report them. So, like when you have you can change it to: %(#FF0000)[ ] Where role and staff are custom attributes I created for my "bubble" component. Pretty cool! I just figured this out yesterday so there are probably way cooler things we can do. BTW, attached is the bubble component if you are interested. You can change the area you want to change the size of the circle. BUBBLE.skp