@davidmreinbold said:

Thanks Tig & Krisidious

Just had a look at Autohotkey. However I decided to go with a nifty little software (644kb) called TinySpell.

This is a great "as-you-type" correction tool which automatically learns from your mistakes adding your preferred corrections to a windows wide dictionary that applies to all programs and browsers. It is very customizable too... see screen shot.
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have attached a trial zip, which can be unlocked for U$10, well worth it...it's a keeper! 😍

I still think an inbuilt spell check within Layout is a must.

Thanks again for putting the heads together on this.

How did you make it work in Layout?

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.

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

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!

thank u

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

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

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!

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.

+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.

Thanks for the info.

Layout needs to speed up! It is so laggy and sluggish (Core I7 3.5ghz/GTX 1080).

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...

@otb designworks said:

Brett, when you right click on a sketchup viewer you'll see an "update reference" choice. So two quick clicks and no need to access the document setup window

This isn't true if the viewport is on a locked layer. And the fact is that working with viewport in unlocked layers is bad for your health. So they should be locked. Rightclicking on a locked viewport allows you to do nothing with that viewport.

Also, to update all viewports in a page it shouldn't be needed to specifically right click a viewport.

When you want to update viewport rendering you can righclick on empty space, why not allow for a second line to update viewport references in a single page.

bump

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

#pretty_please?