the fish thing is a logo I did for a theatre company in Brighton called Rare Breed. I just mashed together 2 photos in photoshop.

Gai -- Thanks.
Actually, I figured it out on my own.
You just click on "insert" then scale down the image to fit.
Then you move the image down where you want it in the Title Block area.

And it was a .jpeg file I imported after all.

Works great.
Layout is hot.

Danty

Thanks! The plans are 30"x15". I was saving them as "highest quality" (I don't know what actual resolution that turned out to be), which was probably overkill. I reduced the resolution when initially importing the PDF in Photoshop from 200 ppi to 100. (The default 72 ppi still left things a little grainy) and saved as a PNG. One or the other (or both) took care of the problem. The resulting PNG file is only 500K and inserts into LayOut just fine.

It's a .PFM font, which I think came originally through Adobe. It appears on my list of available Text Styles in Layout - but that list must just be generated from whatever fonts I have in C:\Windows\Fonts?

Good points, and some of these answer the question "why is LayOut still called a beta".

I'll try to answer a few of these.

If it's for a template, I'd group things and lock the layer for your template. Text box sizing is something we're working on. If text is clipped, in most (should be all, but it's not) cases a red arrow should show up indicating that all the text is not displayed. We're working on this. What links are outdated? Make sure you turn on "Check references when loading this document" in Document Setup. You can also right click on a model and see if the contextual menu enables "update reference". Would you like some permanent indication when the model is out of date? Always working on performance... Hmmm... haven't seen this. Is this from the contextual menu (right click->Arrange->Send Back) or the Arrange menu? You have something selected and it doesn't work? An example would be helpful here. Kill, or maybe "stop doing and undo... I was just kidding and I didn't really mean to do that and why are you taking so long to do this operation"? Escape (as you mentioned), Undo, or try to quit then don't are a few choices. This is confusing to all of us, and we working at how to communicate Scenes, styles, styles that are modified but not update, etc... you're definitely not alone on this one. We'll keep trying.

Barry

Curious - did you get this resolved?

Barry

Bob, Welcome
Try reducing in .25 increments (SU model) Line Wts, untill you are somewhat satisfied.
EX; 1.0......then 0.75..........then 0.50
I find there are no hard and fast rules here, because of paper size...scale...etc.

Shape Style tab has a line wt setting as well.
EDIT:
Wooops...Almost forgot,
You will need to "trick" LO to get the line Shape Style to accept a decimal.
As Follows...Draw shape......Select Shape.....Select 0.5 from the dropdown....triple click to the right of the decimal....enter desired #

Best,

Charlie

SP08-SU.jpg

Klog, currently neither in SU (therefore) nor in LO different lineweights for different elements (layers, groups etc) are possible. The reason is that LO only imports what you can see in SU (and allows limited manipulation) but there's no other interactivity between the 2 programs (as far as I understand it mechanism).

Is this a poetry contest? But this is 4-1-3 instead of traditional haiku 5-7-5. OK, I'll try.

SketchUp text hide.
but.
LayOut prints.

I like this better:

SketchUp text layered.
Hide the layer, launch LayOut.
Print text from LayOut.

OK, have I set the bar low enough for you for your great poetry to exceed mine?

Barry

Can you attach some skp file(s), layout file(s) and pdf file(s) that demonstrate this problem?

OK 😉

@gaieus said:

Definitely a nice presentation, thanks for the bigger images (and again; a nice model, too).
Thanks Gai

PS: actually the image dimension limitation is 800x800 now though a wider image than 705 pixels will be cropped by the forum software on the left so after the transfer we will set the limit back to 705 wide.

%(#BF0000)[& 10-4 on the Image limits,

Charlie]

Yes, hopefully the Beta will end soon and a new version hit the market.
I think it could be a really good and powerful program once it is tweaked.
Fingers crossed work is still proceeding with it and developments are on-going for a future release.

Okay.....Well....sooooo....hmmm a Beta for the beta.

I guess I'll just wait for an invitation. :~)

C

@unknownuser said:

I would like to have an option to define two independent resolutions for:

screen (say 75dpi - for easy, faster editing and smaller layout file size) printing (say 300dpi)
I have found it quite irritating when having to switch back and forth resolutions
when editing and printing.

LO2 has edit/output resolution settings.

@cannon5598 said:

Hi all,
I do however have a small problem with Layout (I know it is still Beta) but when I try to save a drawing A1 as a pdf it is always blank, is there a work around or is this to be fixed.

Try LO 2 and see if its working now. It has much better handling of large page sizes now.
It even has multi-core support. (Win only for now)

thanks guyd. zi fo hsvr thr dpi turnrd high. I'll let it down and give it shot. Talk to you soon.

I had this issue when working with a SU model that included an imported component (a 2d figure) set to it's own layer, so I could control it's visibility in different scenes. Telling the 3d view in LO to zoom extents on scenes that included the figure was partially cutting off the figure. Turned out that something had gotten wonky in the SU model (scenes would not update properly - layer visibility would not update, even though I checked that box in the update dialog). I ended up deleting, then re-creating the scenes - that seemed to fix the issue in both SU and LO.

By the way, Barry - I am absolutely loving Layout. This is the second proposal I have put together using it, and it saves immense amounts of time over exporting all my views to VectorWorks. Tell everybody working on it that they rock, would you?

I'll try to work up a list of suggestions and wishes for you, too.

Mark Leichliter