@pbacot said:

Very clear and eye-catching presentation. Very professional and hip. Maybe a little more variation in hue would make it a little more "restful".

Thank you kind sir!!! I't will have a lot more contrast if I can convince we get rid of the plane runway!

First, assuming your curves and line segments aren't continuous, you'll want to weld them first. TIG-Weld which is available from the PluginStore (look at the top of this page) will do that for you. Then, when you select the edge in SketchUp, Entity Info will tell you the total length. You can type that into a label or other text box in LayOut.

Alternatively you could use SketchUp's Text tool to add a label that displays the length of the edge. Although that is simple, I'm not a fan of it because I prefer the appearance of labels made in LayOut and the options to control their appearance. LayOut's Label tool will display the length of an individual segment of the edge but not the total length of the edge.

Top label was created in LayOut. The bottom one in Sketchup.

A good example of the differences in layering from 2d to 3d.
A 2d layer can be used to obscure something because it will always be 2d.

@nanodrone said:

Bonjour à tous,
Bien voilà mon problème ou du moins ma question.
J'ai un fichier sketchup avec 60 scènes et je voudrais l'exporter vers layout en ouvrant automatiquement 1 scène par page.
Je ne sais pas si c'est possible ou si je suis passé a coté de l'option dans sketchup ou layout.
Merci d'avance.

Pose cette question dans le forum "français" tu auras plus de chance d'obtenir une réponse.
cordialement

Interesting.

Thank you

Hi, I used to have the same issur running the plugin "advanced camera tools"
You can solve it in going to your plugin and click (on the scene in sketchup):
"clear the aspect ratio and returns to the default camera"

I should have added the following.

If you have a border on the viewport before making the clipping mask, the clipped view will also show the border. So you could select the viewport before drawing the shape for the mask and turn on Stroke in Shape Style.

Maybe, at first sight you won't notice a difference between the imports in LO, but just open the SU-references in SU...then you can see that the Section-Cut has been filled in the SU18 file and not in the SU19 file.

@jga said:

@pbacot said:

So SketchUp changed and now ACAD tags files...

It's not aimed at SketchUP users in particular, it's people using the "free" student version of AutoCAD in a business environment.
There was a spell that Autodesk didn't use the watermark, but they are back with the 2019 version of AutoCAD.

Well it seems to be targeting anyone making dwg files in some non-AutoDesk software.

OH I thought it was caused by later SU versions. In the explanation someone said "save it as 2013".

They mean save it as ACAD 2013 dwg, I guess, which is a good precaution. Otherwise your consultants will believe you are using a student version of AutoCAD.

@aris said:

actually skipping one sleep, 'render night'
opportunity to brush up my Layout skills in the waiting times 😄

Very good. Efficient use of your time. 👍

@aris said:

P.S. I owe you one mousaka for your help 😄 😄 😄

Do you have 4 feet of snow on the ground and 64 KPH winds? If not, I'm headed for the airport. 😄

Maybe one day I will get to Greece and eat mousaka with you.

I replied in your thread about shadows not showing when you update the scene in SketchUp. It is exactly your workflow that causes that sort of thing. If you would actually create scenes that have the properties, including styles, and camera positions that you want to show in your LayOut viewports and you avoiding doing things in LayOut that result in the scenes showing as modified, you wouldn't have any problems.

Forgive my ignorance,,,,,,,but are you re sizing all images to the same extents in LO? (IE: like a postcard)
Just asking in case a template could be used to “snap to”....possibly even a SU model at scale in LO to be utilized for snap points.

Charlie

Thanks Dave

Any luck inserting the autocad drawing from yesterday?

Hmmmm...

Could you share the CAD file? Send it by PM if you don't want to make it public.

Keyboard shortcuts are set in Preferences in both SketchUp and LayOut.

Thanks! I didn’t realise I could use the precision symbol in that way. I’ll check out the text tool as well

Maybe this all gets resolved in 2019 Pro:

Release notes 2019

Vector and Hybrid rendering in LayOut

Fixed an issue where extra lines were seen when a section cut is coincident with a face when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut. Fixed an issue where extra lines were seen when extruded circles are cut along their center when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut. Fixed an issue where hidden divided edges on top of faces drew as if they were visible when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut. Fixed an issue where images incorrectly showed a border around them when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut. Fixed an issue where lines were missing when Vector rendering some plan view models in LayOut. Fixed an issue where extension lines were not drawn when using Vector/Hybrid rendering in LayOut.