ok thanks for your help. response a bit late ...

G

You can open the Sketchup model, edit the text, save the file, then Right click -> Update in Layout

Turn on File->Document Setup->Paper->Margins (check the box) and see in this case if your margins are clipping here.

b

Thank you Richard:

This tutorial is excellent and much appreciated.

regards

Pedro

Mate I have posted a simple workaround to this thread.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=31373

In a nutshell:

In layout create your own hatch pattern using the line tool, Export this page as PNG file so the background is alpha, Import this to your later LO docs or add to scrapbook and create clipping mask to mask out!

It would be a great addition IF layout could clip it's own objects ie: A clipping mask could clip an "in document" created hatch - not a perfect senario but pretty darn close!

Tank you Gjenio for your reply,

But I thing I did not made myself very clear on that, It was the dimensions lines from Skechup that are always the same as the model itself.

But I discovered that by changing yje profile value in SU does solve my problem

Tank you again

You could try exporting to PDF and printing from Adobe Reader with scaling options.

Oh, then erase the angular dimension... obviously.

This could happen if you did worked on two monitors;
that menu window could be displaying on the second monitor.

@samyell77 said:

Yup - the amount of zoom is restricted in Layout. Try it out!

have you tried this on your mac, takes a little practice
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/guides/magnify/computer/mac/os_x/index.shtml
john

Instead of always digging into the styles dialog, activate the "Warn of style changes when adding (updating) scenes" option under Preferences > General. It will then pop a small dialog up asking if you want to update your style or save it as a new one (or do nothing).

It can be a (little) annoying but when toggling section planes on/off and updating your scene for instance, it can be very useful, too. Always use fully updated scenes and styles in SU when you want to work with the file in LO.

As it still seems to cause much confusion, maybe some better style control of the inserted SU file in LO would be good...

If page numbering ever happens in LO you might be given the option to add prefixes to your page numbers. This is possible to do in InDesign and you could arrange page numbers exactly as you have described below - with a chapter number prefix for the type of drawing (1 for site plan, 2 for floor plan, 3 for section etc) and then the page numbers could be generated as you add pages. Its a really handy feature of indesign and would be really handy in LO - but as Gaieus said this has been asked for many times, just hoping that if its said enough the next release of LO might include this feature and save me having to manually do it!

THANKS! (for the disappointing news...)

Is the a place to add my voice for this request somewhere?

EDIT: oh look a Wish list thread - 😕

I make a sketchup file layer in layout and lock it. That way the view port cant move.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YAiDatANQo&feature=related

That's it actually. They mean that the inserted 2D view of the SU model is not updated to the latest changes of the model.

If it is a very complex model (and you are in hybrid or vector mode), you can leave them like that as updating may take long. Only update (manually) once in a while.

If it is a simple model however, you can turn auto update on in the Tray > SketchUp model tab and they will instantly update once you make some changes.

b- I did find it. I had the edit resolution on high. I set it at low and it's
made a huge difference. Saving and changing pages on the order of 10x faster!.
The dimensions command doesn't seem to work quite as accurately, but it gets me
close enough. I think there's a slight loss of accuracy in layout anyway. I just
adjust the text, since I know what the dimensions should be. Please thank j, as well. Dave

Thank you good to know..
c

Happend to me twice in 1 week now (missing pages).

LO version 3.0.16846

Have been using locked pages.