Excellent! I'm glad it did work. I think you'll find that it's better to do the PDF exports and print them anyway. If you want to do large format prints, you can send the PDF to an office supply store or other firm that has large printers and you can send PDFs to clients directly and know what they should be seeing when they open your file.

Thanks Dave that's a good point. I need to update my templates anyway with the onset of the new EU data protection laws coming in.

@unknownuser said:

Well, I have been using Sketchup since Ver 4, and I do not see this selection, Shape Style.

A little help would be nice.

Thanks in advance, Ken

It's in Layout.
Bep

When I zoom all everything disappears
but when I selct all it's only the stuff around origin im working on

For normal fonts fractions will be displayed horizontally as below.
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I expect you could find or make a font that included a variety of glyphs for fractions such that the numbers are stacked vertically or diagonally but there isn't any facility currently for doing that directly in LayOut.

@dave r said:

I believe there is a known bug related to this and I think the LO team is working on it. Until it gets fixed I would suggest using TIG's Section Cut Face instead of the Section Fill.
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Thanks for having a look at this Dave.

I have historically used TIG’s section cut face (& still do w/more complex cuts)......but with the SU 2018 new section fill and this being a “simple” drawing I used that feature instead.

Didn’t even occur to me to check that for being the cause........anyhow.......now I am aware......so thanks again for that.

Charlie

There's a lot more to that window than just setting the units and whether or not the units are displayed. You should check out the other buttons.

What the OP asked was not to label the section but the viewport that is displaying the section.

Another thing that you cannot control is the opacity/color of the section plane, if you decide to show sections, or the linestyle and symbol of the section lines.

All of these features you seek have been asked as feature requests before. I hope they make them happen.

Got an answer on the other forum to the import/file format questions. Still interested in hearing from anyone whose found a good source for standard AEC material patterns.

For anybody looking for the same: https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-to-import-pattern-fills-into-layout/64448

2024 and still no batt insulation symbol in Layout. Still a frustrating experience.

I originally brought them in from an autocad file. I just created one from scratch and it still does it. The bizarre part is that it works fine in the scrap book file.

If it didn't update the viewport after clicking Update Model Reference or updating the reference in Document Setup>References, you've most likely modified the viewport so it is no longer connected to the scene. It would show the word 'modified' preceding the scene name in the SketchUp Model window. Modifying the scene in LO disconnects it from the original scene in SketchUp so a change to the SU scene shouldn't be expected to show in the viewport. This is one reason why I always harp on avoiding modifying scenes in LO.

They do and I pinged one of them in your other thread. I did find that you can export at a larger size if you enter the resolution instead of the width.

As I wrote before, the issue is known to the LO team and it's in the pipeline for a fix. As a work around, you could use Raster rendering and export at highest output quality or you could manually make extensions. Neither is ideal but until a fix is released, there's not much of an option.

thanks both marc durant and dave r. That works for me.

I wouldn't have guessed that. Good you're on it.

Sorta glad to hear others have concerns about this.
One bit of info I can add to this is:
If you are not keenly aware of “in model dimensions”, I could easily see someone setting an incorrect dimension and not even knowing it is wrong because the dimension tool really referenced the edge of the viewport and not the model geometry.
Since it doesn’t throw erroneous dimension.....IOW dimension to edge of viewport seems to maintain set scale of model viewport. (Wish I knew of safe .gif recorder so I could upload demonstration)

Charlie

Thanks for the explanation. Good to know.

Does the line have the "starting/ending arrowhead" style set to the "overrun" arrowhead? Change the arrowhead settings on that line or set the arrowhead size to 0 pts.

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