How to prevent LayOut auto-update on PDF export?

db11 · 22 Apr 2015, 18:22

I'm pulling my hair out in frustration with LayOut.

I have been trying to export a set of urgently needed permit drawings as a PDF from LayOut, and instead of what's showing on-screen — where I have intentionally not updated viewports in order to avoid unwanted SU scene changes— it auto-updates while processing the pdf, and leaves the LayOut doc in the updated state.

This with the auto-render settings turned off, and even after unlinking/embedding the SU documents, purging and locking all the drawing layers. It’s so unbelievably frustrating. The whole point of pdf is WYSIWYG - what’s showing on the screen should be exactly what’s exported/printed.

Is this a bug, an undocumented 'feature', or is there a hidden setting somewhere that I can toggle to prevent this behaviour? Would deleting the LO preference files help?

Anyone else experience this? Any thoughts?

JQL · 22 Apr 2015, 18:28

If your embeded model is as you want it why don't you edit it in SU through Layout.

SU will create a model in the embeded state wich you can save wherever you want. Then you can link that "old" model into your LO file. Don't change that model, nor the Layout file, and you can archive your permit LO+SU model.

Dave R · 22 Apr 2015, 18:33

I guess I can't think of a case where I wanted to export to PDF when the viewports weren't updated to match the SketchUp model so I wasn't aware of this behavior. I don't know of a setting that you could change to prevent the updating.

Maybe a change in work flow would help? If you are going to make changes to the SKP file that you don't want to show in the LO viewports, you should probably save the SKP file with a new name. Later, if you want to update the LO file with the changes, you can relink the reference with the new SKP file. Or you could embed the SKP file which would unlink it from the original SKP file that you are normally working on. This would have the same result as doing a File>Save as... on the SKP after the edits.

Make sense?

pbacot · 22 Apr 2015, 20:10

If this is happening after unlinking and embedding --could be a bug. but maybe it's too late and you are embedding the altered version of the SU file. So you've lost the old version?