Hello,

Is it possible to share 1 component/materials folder between 3 users on 3 different work stations over an internal office server?

There are currently 3 of us working off sketchup in the same office (linked through an office server) but we currently each have seperate component and material folders on our individual PCs. Every now and again we just swop folders manually, but was wandering if we can set up a central folder on our server which holds all our info centrally?

(sorry if this is a dumb question/ in wrong section)

Any help appreciated.
Andy

Unfortunately yes they are constantly asking for changes to be made (don't they all?), but it seems just as easy to make the changes in SU > re-export the scenes > exchange the attached Jpeg images in Powerpoint.

I generally only use 2-3 images, so it doesn't take a lot of effort, especially as I have pre-selected layout sheets within powerpoint.

I see the advantage of just clicking 'update' in LO, but if it doesn't have the presentation power (as in sending a presentation to a client as opposed to presenting to them directly from my PC) then it falls short of my current method in my opinion.

I'm not 'anti' LO, as it has some good features, but from my current knowledge it seems to have more restrictions than powerpoint in a real project situation. I know I can export the pages as PDFs and then set up the PDFs as full screen, but it seems like a lot of effort to replicate what powerpoint does so easily (though I'm not a big fan of powerpoint anyway - hence this post regarding the cabilities of LO).

Thanks for the advice guys.

Thanks for the advice guys.

So forgetting the possiblity of animating within LO (I know how to run an animation in SU), what are the presentation options other than using the actual LO software itself to drive the presentation.

For example, what would LO offer me in competition to my exisiting method of presenting SU ideas to clients? My current method being exporting a still of my view in SU > importing that view into a template made up in Powerpoint > combining multiple pages in powerpoint and sending presentation as powerpoint slideshow as an independant file to the client via email?

I usually add in a quick animation made up in SU with the powerpoint file, but I was hoping LO might offer an competitive solution to this method. Am I barking up the wrong tree here?

Thanks
Andy

Hello,

Nearly everything I've read about Layout mentions its presentation (paper and digital)capabilities and the possiblities of using animations within the presentations. However playing around with it I can't find any other options other than saving it as a PDF?

I currently export my project images directly from sketchup and import them straight into Powerpoint, then send my clients the powerpoint presentation.

However having played around with Layout I would prefer to try and use it over powerpoint (I would have more control over the over all graphic look) but I cannot figure out how to animate the finished pages/create a presentation once I'm happy with them.

Is this actually possible?

Any help appreciated.