Oh! Thanks!

Under document set up just check the boxes "show grid on top" and "print grid" easy!

sketchydog Check the status of your inserted SU models File......Document Setup......References (status) Update if not current. You can also Rt-Click a SU model viewport and update reference. (Note: Very important to update all styes/scenes before save in SU...and then update LO model reference) Also, Won't hurt to occaisionally purge the LO model from time to time.(same file path) Charlie

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

@sketchydog said: Man do I feel like an idjit! It's just way too easy sometimes to feel like that!

Thanks for your answers, even if i hoped it was not a bug. Frans

Ahah! Great-thanks.

Its a work around but just try. Save the GE texture out of the model and then bring back in by replacing the texture. I know all sorts of funny things can happen with rendering when the map isn't available to be dragged in. Could be similar happening here due to some machine irregularity.???

That depends on how fast you learn... If you are already aware at how to creating scenes with the elevations and sections you need, you will also be fast with Layout dimensioning and leader tagging. You'll be slow to do it if you're immediately concerned with presentation style, wich will take you some more time to master. If you immediately understand the following advices, I think you'll be able to do it as this is probably the simplest or more condensed tutorial on how to do it In Sketchup: 1 - Make a different scene for any 2D drawing you need. 2 - Make a different scene for the corresponding sectioncutfaces of each section above without seeing any part of the model (sectioncutface plugin) 3 - Make sure 1 and 2 are exactly at same camera in SU 4 - Make a style for each scene that corresponds exactly to the way you want them to be printed out 5 - Save the model and export to layout. If you think you can do this things then you can move on to Layout, if not, I wouldn't advice you to do it right now, but I would urge you to learn how to, as it will probably change the way you look at CAD. Layout: 1 - Click the viewport automatically created 2 - On "Sketchup Model" tray on the side of the Layout window, select one of the Sketchup saved 2D scenes and give it a scale or use a predefined one. 3 - On "Sketchup Model" tray click in the styles tab and disable background. 4 - Select the viewport and copy paste it like in any other windows program. 5 - You now have 2 similar viewports one in top of each other 6 - Click on empty paper and back in a viewport once 7 - Go to "sketchup model" tray and select the sectioncutface scene corresponding to the 2D scene you chose before EDIT: 8 - If it happens that your sectioncutface scene viewport is not in the front, then rightclick one of the viewports and set arrange>bring to front (or send to back) Dimensioning and Tagging: 1 - Click the dimensions tool and start picking points 2 - Click the leader tool and start tagging your model 3 - Write the texts you need IMPORTANT TIPS: 1 - Create different layers for both juxtaposed viewports (easier dimensioning) and for every kind of drawing elements like leaders EDIT: Layer on top will be visible above layers on bottom. 2 - Don't create new pages, duplicate them instead 3 - Never change viewport styles or mess inside viewports, use sketchup for that and refresh model instead. I hope this helps, either it confuses you or not, try it at your own risk. Best regards, JQL

Probably the same issue, in document setup the reference is marked red, after update, the layout is changed but the text remains red. Windows 7 (x86)

@driven said: London was my 'slow down' and it's not too bad a place to end up in. john Darn hard to imagine London a "slow down"!

@richard said: Whoa! 30x42" are you designing site signs? Most builders here in Australia would bury you under the footings if you used a sheet this large! What sized projects are you working on? if it's an airport I guess you can be excused! Yes, it's a crazy size to manage in the field. I never go larger than 24"x36"

Hi Trev- Unfortunately that problem is caused by some API changes in Mavericks. As far as I know there's no work-around for the problem, although we're working on a fix. Thanks, Marc

Mate you cant do it in LO - though it is a fairly easy task to set this up in your PDF after export using almost any PDF editor!

I have the same issues with LO 2015 (and 2013 /2014). Located the folders, nothing in there. I'm on a Mac running Yosemite if that makes any difference.

Text inserted into LayOut in a text box or as an RTF file is vector graphics. There is no option to convert it to Raster. You'll notice that the choices for Vector, Raster and Hybrid are found in the SketchUp inspector. These settings are specifically in the SketchUp inspector because they are controls for the SketchUp viewports only.

That explains perfectly. Thanks.

Thanks Kristoff

@dave r said: Have you tried linking to the original SKP file which is probably not in the private/var folder? If you go to the private/var folder can you open the SKP file? Or copy it to documents or someplace and open it? Move the SKP file and try relinking to it in that location. I did try this, and it didn't seem to work. I ended up asking SketchUp support, who responded with the following: @unknownuser said: A. I recommend against saving the SketchUp file to a Dropbox folder. I've had a couple of complaints from customers whose files behave strangely when saving to a cloud-synced folder. See if he has the same problem while saving the SketchUp file to the Desktop then try to relink again. B. Many, many SketchUp and LayOut problems are the result of disk permissions issues. To repair disk permissions, try these steps: Restart your computer. Open a Finder window. Click Applications. Click Utilities. Double-click Disk Utility. Select your hard drive. Select the First Aid tab. Click Repair Disk Permissions. Please repeat step eight until you no longer see new errors during the repair. After the permissions are repaired, exit Disk Utility. C. Reset LayOut's preferences file: Open a Finder window. Click "Go" in the top menu bar and select "Go to Folder..." Copy and paste the following path into the text box in Finder: ~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2013/LayOut Click once on the file called "preferences.xml" then press the Return key on your keyboard. This will allow you to change the file name. Change the name from "preferences.xml" to "preferences-old.xml" Open LayOut and try relinking again. Following both points A and B worked for me. It's a shame that Dropbox and Layout are not working well together. To be precise, if you have the LayOut file in Dropbox, you get the problem I have. If you have the LayOut file on your desktop, for example, it works, even if you are referencing a Sketchup file within Dropbox. In conclusion, do not store your LO files in Dropbox - it may mess things up. I would be interested to see if this is a problem on PCs. I am waiting for the day that LayOut files reference Sketchup files using relative paths!