Wos. A lot of black ink. Haven't seen that before (on a Mac). Could it be Catalina? Must be some setting. Macintosh-- the pioneer of desktop publishing. But now?

For anyone who comes along and wonders if it was fixed. There was an update released on 27 May, 2020 that fixed the problem.

The release notes. Or note.

thank u

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

Same issues here. I am running 20.1.228 for Mac.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19PunIXTXXOrgfBXFkzSbHzHgTqShqv5l/view?usp=sharing

@dave r said:

Yes. This is a useful way to add certain reused content or even things to sample. I've done this for years with LayOut and I think quite a few users do it as well. My templates also include different lineweight and dash samples and font sizes so it's quick and easy to select the appropriate styling for entities I want to add and I can maintain consistency through the project. I put those things on a shared layer so they show up for every page.

Thanks for the insight!!

If you want to change the color of existing lines, they need to be selected first. If you want to change the color for new drawing entities going forward, you need to have the appropriate tool selected before changing the color.

Yes. I understand what you mean. Put the scale object on a layer that is not shared between pages. Then copy it and paste it on the other pages. Then you can scale each one separately.

By the way, please update your profile. It says you are using SketchUp 2015 Make which wouldn't have LayOut. The correct version information can be useful in helping you out.

(on a PC/Windows 10) You could try a search from the Taskbar or go to the File explorer in the Start menu. Just a matter of looking through each of the sub-directories to find the app required. Make a note of the location and then go back into Layout to link.

@sekta said:

Im curious to see if this issue was sorted as I am having a similar problem in LO when rendering in hybrid or vector...

Share your LO file so we can see what you've got.

Are you still using SU2020 as indicated in your profile?

@dave r said:

@aikibrown said:

but just encountered the same issue when trying to export to PDF using LO 2020 (Pro).

So the clipping mask thing from the OP has been one cause. I've also seen where a dimension or two on the page were somehow bad. In one case a few years ago the user had a bad logo image in their title block. That was obviously a different version.

It sounds like you know which page is the problem child. You could try releasing clipping masks if there are any or deleting dimensions of other content a little at a time until you can export the page. Do a little at a time. If it doesn't export, undo that change before trying something else.

In the case of the bad dimensions, after discovering they were the cause of the problem, I put in new dimensions to replace the bad ones and there was no problem with export.

Thanks for taking the time to chip in here Dave. You've certainly highlighted a few issues for me to keep an eye out for in future.

I've now looked over my layout file in more detail and can confirm that in my case, it was a single viewport that was set to Hybrid render causing the export to fail. With the setting changed to Raster, the issue no longer persists with Layout V. 2020 (Pro). I'll try registering the possible bug with Trimble.
Thanks again to all posters - all helped me get where I needed to be. Cheers.

For future reference this is the sort of thing you should draw directly in Layout.
No need to make scenes, or send to layout or scale etc
Just draw it full size and print it.

Here is a version drawn in layout in a few minutes.
Tape.jpg
And then printed and checked for accuracy.
TapePrint.jpg
It took longer to create this post than it did to draw and print it.

I have the same situation in 2020 Pro version. Serious problem. After just a few minutes of working, all LayOut commands freeze. (I can save the file, and when I reopen the file, it shows, for instance, the line I was attempting to draw, but it's distorted, like it couldn't keep up with drawing speed. (The line didn't show up at all before I save and close.) While working, suddenly Layout won't snap to any geometry and that's how I know the session is toast.

I'm a power LayOut user and I've never experienced anything like this with SketchUp in 15 years of using it! To have to go back to ver.2018 is going to be a tragedy. I'm using OS Mojave 10.14.6 on a MacBookPro late 2013, 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB. Yeah, getting a little long in the tooth, I suppose, (the computer) but I'm not having any difficulty with it on any other demanding software I use. Is anyone else experiencing this miserable situation besides me and Gordon Greenwood? Moreover, does anyone have a solution?

@Dave-R Yes, I avoid modifying the camera in LO. At least I have a better understanding of this glitch now and can compensate for it. I also need to be more concise with my models and make better use of tags and visibility. I'm also fortunate enough to have Studio here with the massive power of Vray 6, which is a great incentive to be more organised with it's render layer capabilities.

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!

@davewong said:

I need more sketchup's layout pattern fills. More varieties, like wood-grains pattern, earth/ground patterns etc etc.

May I know where do I get more of it? I have no time to draw them myself 😞

You can easily create them directly in LayOut!

Open a document and set the dimensions of the page to say 200mm x 200mm with NO margin and ensure Print Page Colour is unchecked. Suggest you set the grid as 5, 10 or 20mm so you can reference each edge where the texture will tile.

Draw your texture with lines of required thickness and set line ends to round or square to ensure they pass the edge of the page. Export as PNG as this will provide an alpha background.

Import back into layout as a hatch to check. Adjust line weights on the original and export and test again.

Layout is the ultimate tool to create textures!!!

@mark beattie said:

Good day,

Within a Layout file I've exploded certain viewports to adjust linetypes/weights but, after I try to snap any dimension to these lines, they seem to be reading more the size of the paper than any previous assigned scale.

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks,

Mark

If the Sketchup model was inserted as say 1:100 and you explode it, next time you want to dimension the exploded model just set the dimension up as auto-scale 1:100

First thing to try,Close SU and Layout, Find the install file .exe, probably in your Downloads folder.
Right click on it and choose Run As Administrator, then when the option is given select Repair and follow any prompts.

Thank you so much for the trick. This is very helpful, Dave.