Layout files changes when sketchup files is edited.
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Hello
I'm am working in a project and regularly I have to send pdf drawings to an agency for approvals. I do this before I finish my model in Skethcup, and make layout drawings with measurements. Now I have sent a 10 page pdf document with drawings of a inner sections of my model, and when it came back from the agency there were some changes that I needed to do in the drawings so they could get approval. Since I sent the pdf to the agency I have been working in the skethcup model, making it bigger. When I came back to my layout document to do the necessary all of my pages had changed. (because I had changed the sketchup file).
Is there any way for me to lock the layout file so it wont update the preferences from the sketchup model when I am working in the model?
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The auto-update thing is sort of the point of using LayOut but you can overcome it. Under File>Document SetUp, select References. Select the SKP file and choose Embed. This will make LO look only at the embedded copy of the SKP and not the original that you've been modifying. If at some point you wish to update the LO file to the changes you've made, go back to References, select the SKP file and choose Relink. Navigate to the original SKP file and select it. The viewports will be linked to the SKP file you've been editing.
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@dave r said:
The auto-update thing is sort of the point of using LayOut but you can overcome it. Under File>Document SetUp, select References. Select the SKP file and choose Embed. This will make LO look only at the embedded copy of the SKP and not the original that you've been modifying. If at some point you wish to update the LO file to the changes you've made, go back to References, select the SKP file and choose Relink. Navigate to the original SKP file and select it. The viewports will be linked to the SKP file you've been editing.
Damn, you are good, never noticed that.
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Thank you, Barry.
If you look at the references, you can see the links to all the external files you have included in your prject. If there are things such as your company logo in the title block, you might choose to embed them so you don't have to wory if you move the original to another location. LO does revert to the embedded copy if it can't find the original but it will show in red in the list as if there's an error.
You probably know that you can right click on a SketchUp viewport and choose Update reference from the context menu. That option isn't present for images or inserted RTF text. You can update those references in Document SetUp>References, though.
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@dave r said:
The auto-update thing is sort of the point of using LayOut but you can overcome it. Under File>Document SetUp, select References. Select the SKP file and choose Embed. This will make LO look only at the embedded copy of the SKP and not the original that you've been modifying. If at some point you wish to update the LO file to the changes you've made, go back to References, select the SKP file and choose Relink. Navigate to the original SKP file and select it. The viewports will be linked to the SKP file you've been editing.
Thank you so much. Yes, in most cases the autoupdate is very useful and I want to keep it on in 90% of my work, but this will help me in the other 10% that I want to turn it off.
I was thinking the only way to do this was to explode the drawing, but that would make it useless if I would need to make changes to the model in the future.
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Auto Update? I've not had LO update without asking first.
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Peter, there is that. You can ignore the notice to update when you open the LO file. And it won't update.
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@pbacot said:
Auto Update? I've not had LO update without asking first.
It has happen to me. When I open the layout document everything has changed. I dont know why, because usuly Layout ask me if I want to update.
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Under preferences/general - unclick automatically re-render. This still keeps the link, but you decide when you update it.
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