Thanks..that makes sense..I didn't know that...I'll give it a try...

Cool. I get it now, thanks. It takes forever to render if there's a lot of edges, but it makes for a really nice output when I set the Model Window output choice to either Vector or Hybrid (depending on the amount of surfaces) and set the Export/ Options quality to High. Jim

I like Layout. I tried to get away without it for a while, but it is invaluable for sending drawings to clients and subcontractors. Aside from the bug just mentioned, my largest frustration is that I have to command click on each view repeatedly to set scale, scene, and view. If the contextual menu could be rigged to stay open until I'm done it would make the work surprisingly faster, especially given the bugs I just mentioned. BEst, Jim

Thanks, Gaieus. These look great.

Control (or Command in Windows) Click on the view. Change scale in the contextual menu. You can also change scene, standard view, and perspective here. Note that if you are editing the view, scale will not come up. I'm still trying to figure out resolution.... Jim

Thanks...it was just pushing the stroke button to turn it on and off, which I wasn't aware of...thanks so much,

You also can take a search fpr scrapebooks. In the German Version there is a de file which does'nt include these files. But the original path contains the scrapebook so we only have to set the right path. Maybe it is the same with you.

Hello! I use this soft - http://www.ronyasoft.com/products/proposter/en/. Its automatically calculating how many individual sections an image or photo needs to be chopped up in to, then letting you know how much paper you need, and what size.

@pbacot said: Looks like it is time for you to go Pro, Mr. Raineysky. Peter HaHa. I'm itching to so it wouldn't take much. Best I should wait for the next version though. My first project is nearing the end and it will be time to package it. That's when I'll know what my excact wishes really are regarding presentation software intergration. PS: Thanks for the links TIG

Hi David, Don1t forget that with GDocs you can also make presentations similar to PowerPoint and watch/present them online. Certainly a to-and-fro compatibility between different Google products would be nice. I could also imagine embedding videos into LO presentations and even exported PDF files (as you can embed videos into PDF1s now).

@gaieus said: To my best knowledge, you cannot do this. Paper size (and orientation) is a document level setting and you cannot change them at page level. I have seen "requests" for the same but with paper sizes. You could, however, rotate your shape in SU and fit it into a landscape paper... Thanks Gai, much appreciated, frustrating though.

That worked. I had modified the views somehow, but when I set them back they displayed correctly. Thanks for your help!

@marcdurant said: When this thread started in 2010, the Mac client would allow setting the opacity of text, but the Windows client couldn't set or even display text opacity. To avoid confusion, we recently (LO 2013?) disabled the opacity slider on Mac so that the platforms match. Thanks, Marc So........and please pardon........the (hopefully temporary)solution was to have no/0 "client" ability to set text opacity. C

I think you can only disable it globally, not just for one viewport. However, you can always save a SU file (as..." at a particular time and insert that into one particular viewport and stop "developing" that version and work only on another version of the model. Theoretically you can insert as many SU files into LO as you want.

Bj, Its when you pull the dimension up, there is an example of it at the top of the LO drawing. The dimensions are different. One is taken horizontally across the room, the other diagonally and pulled up. Normally the dimension adjusts to suit the width, in this case the dimension stays with the diagonal length. Hope I am making sense

@pout said: Hey David, Is there any additional information available on the XML structure used? regards Sorry, I must have missed this reply, also sorry, I don't have a good source on documentation for this, but if you work on a copy of your files so there is nothing to mess up, you may have good luck searching the text file for an object you have to find how it is referenced in the code.

If the problem is on a specific page, try this: copy the content of that page and paste it to a blank page in a new document, then save it. delete that page from you original document, and remake it again - importing (copy&paste) the saved data. This might fix it. Sometimes it worked for me. If, as I think, your problem is that the memory gets full, you may split your document in two or more parts. 25 pages are a lot for Layout. Have you tried it on another computer? Let me know. matteo

I don't have illustrator and I think it's not worth buying it only for that reason. In Sketchup, when you export to 3ds format, you have many options: I just wish they could develop a similar interface, when you export a pdf, in the next version of Layout.

You can also check out our templates as an example - they all have a set font, arrow head and dimension style per template family.

That may be too large for SU and perhaps even for LO. SU with its OpenGL engine can only handle 2048x2048 pixel images (true however that it just gracefully degrades bigger ones to this display limitation). This can still affect memory usage but without the file I cannot say anything certain. (Maybe not even with the file).