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 <ComponentDescription> you can change it to:

%(#FF0000)[<DynamicComponent(role)>
<DynamicComponent(staff)>]

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

I wish you have tutorial links of that. Please share

Anyone know if there is likely to be any movement / development on this. Being able to export more than one page of a PDF and being able to do this for individual pages in a sequence (1,5,15) rather than as a run of pages in a sequence (1-15) would be great. Also being able to export by file and page name would be incredibly useful - would save a lot of error prone file renaming (post export) and its a feature that lots of other drafting packages have. Id love to be able to name a file, label the pages and choose what pages to export and whether to export them as individual PDFs that have the file name as a prefix and the page name as a suffix eg,
File name = 123-ABCD-4567
Page name = 01_A_General Arrangement
could export as = 123-ABCD-4567 - 01_A_General Arrangement

At the moment I have to break up my PDFs in Acrobat and manually rename them. On projects that have documents with lots of pages and clients that are forever changing their mind, renaiming all the files is very time consuming and its very easy to make mistakes.

@brettsichellodesign said:

Just have it in a right click menu would be a solution I think.

Agree!

@buildermax said:

'Change in one of components, the rests all follow.'

Add 'Component Tray' Contain: thumbnails, Schedule Labels alphabetically, drag and drop multiples to paper space.

I think these will help indexing, scheduling, and drawing referencing a lot.

hellow sir,

this is a good one. i think it should be added to the lo capabilities. nice one.. 👍

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.

@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

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.

Seconded.

Hurrah! Big Tick!

BTW, in LayOut 2016 we introduced the option to choose JPG compression for images in PDF export from LayOut.

Thanks,
Marc

Those simple yet excellent features!

Hi John

Windows does not provide a system wide spell checker it's on individual software level.

Cheers David

@calypsoart said:

My wish list at this early stage of using LO:

An automatic tag that reads Viewport scale. I have this in AC, find it very useful.

Yes; there are often times when it is unclear which scale the dimension is taking; maybe there should be a dimension mode where the scales are represented by different colours?

@unknownuser said:

Dimensions update when Model updates. Without this, LO will never become very useful to me.

Yes that would be nice... I made a video to demonstrate...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIqk818aEVg

This feature is already available. Try: windows-entity info
edit: stupid me - your question was about layout - not SketchUp. Thankfully already answered by somebody else.

If you reaaally want to change the dimension style, you could do it in SketchUp:

If your endpoint is just a perpendicular line, scaling won't affect it and it will look ok. If your endpoint is anything else, scaling will affect it and it will look messy. If you are into Ruby, you could make a nice plugin out of it that will rescale the endpoints accordingly to look 'normal' again though.

dimComponent.skp

@utiler said:

Agree with Chuck. 👍

Richard that list would cut my time and improve my output to no end!!

Andrew, I know many have been on our joint wish list for some time!

For sure mate pdf import one would trust comes in at real world size. I certainly works this way with Indesign.

Jason, mate I am so with you on all those requests! Doing graphic works in LO is simply a JOY, but you still need to take them in illustrator via PDF to create compound paths and colour conversion to CYMK!

YES PLEASE!