Raster is faster: leave edit rendering in low res raster. Save higher res or vector rendering for later in the process.
Control rendering yourself: uncheck Auto render to decide when you want to render things.
When you're ready to do a big rendering, run it over you lunch time or overnight, when your computer isn't doing real work for you.
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BTW - I e-mailed Susan and I think we got this straightened out. For everyone, Dimensions in LO 3 have an attachment point and an offset point. In LO 2.1, they only had an attachment point. This was a feature added from customer feedback about being able to control the distance between where the dimension was attached and where the line actually started. We had a hack in 2.1 where you could set an offset point size to do this, but it wasn't very elegant.
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When you change the scale and you say it misses, what scale does it go to?
And on the disappearing from view, we fixed a bug in LO 3 that if you had a negative camera height in perspective and switched to orthographic, unlike SketchUp which switched the camera to a positive height, LayOut would leave at a negative height. This resulted in some models flipping when switching to Ortho.
So are you LayOut 2.1 or 3.0? Are you also switching to Ortho first before setting scale with Auto rendering off? Make sure Auto rendering is on when you try this and do it in two steps: first, switch to Ortho (render) then set scale (render again). Does that help?
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Can you PM a file to me and I'll take a look? Inferences show up? If you get an inference, then it should go to model space.
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I filed a bug a while back on this to make vectors white to show up better in model space. It's not fixed. Sorry. I agree.
Yes, your use is what we're shooting for: easily set up a set of drawings by setting up all the views for export.
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Regarding Country Blueprint, can you verify that the font you downloaded has the right to embed? We've had customers who get a font and think they're good, but if the font isn't licensed properly (to allow export), it wont work.
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I tried this as well and it worked for me. There's nothing tricky about that font (licensing, etc...) that I'm aware of. What's your PDF renderer? Same platform, or are you trying to open it on a Mac that doesn't have that font?
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Um, because paper space dimensions aren't the default when attaching to a model.
You're not getting the model for some reason. Is the model on a locked layer? That's one thing that'll cause paper space. Is the layer your dimension is on shared? Don't do that. Are you really getting an inference on the model? You have to get an inference, e.g. on face, on edge, Endpoint, etc... in order to get model space. Those are just a few things to check.
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Some people have created hatching using a SketchUp model with clipping mask in LayOut.
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Can you take the time to hybrid render? Does that help?
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So if styles are saved, then verify that your scenes have been updated, then the model saved. And in LayOut, use scene names to set the view, not "Last Saved SketchUp View". Also, if it's an Ortho view and you've set scale, this may have modified your scene, and sometimes modified scenes will not see a a style update if that image is cached. Play around with style & scene & (if you're Ortho) scale settings.
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This always confuses us, too. For images, the high output setting (I think) should give you the full resolution of the image. 300 DPI on high is for SketchUp raster rendered models.
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I helped Bill out via e-mail, and we're getting this a lot, so please consider:
What's the intent of exporting to AutoCAD? If it's for someone to take the drawings / geometry and redo the documents in 2D in AutoCAD, then:
A couple of notes on dimensioning / labeling, and connections (things that stick to models or images):
You cannot make a connection where the item your dimensioning / labeling OR the dimension / label is on a shared layer. We found this to be a source of crashes (and those of you who've sent me corrupt files, a lot of times this is what I was fixing in your files, what could have been a result of this).
In LayOut 3, if you do this, save and close your file and open it back up, the connection will be broken. If your dimension is on a shared layer, it will NOT get model space measurements (only paper space measurements) in addition to not sticking to the model.
One of you asked me offline "how do I even get shared layers?" Our templates put them in there, so you can create borders and page stylings on every page. You can also create them by clicking on the icon in the Layers panel that toggles between one piece of paper and a stack of papers (items on this layer on one page OR on every page).
We like to make things simple and subtle, but sometimes the subtlety needs a bit of explanation.
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Send a sketchup model to layout, select the model, set scale in Window->SketchUp Model on the view tab (should be an Ortho / Parallel view).
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Have you opened up the Window->Dimension Style panel to see what it's set to? We try to make it pretty hard to NOT get model space dimensions. Keep this panel open while you're dimensioning and see what the Auto Scale button does.
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Some friends at Vectorworks also gave us a copy, so we'll run tests through that. But again, the final arbiter is AutoCAD.
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What Gai said, and no, you can select all models on a page and change their rendering. But on a huge document, not all pages are necessarily in memory, and we would have to load them and re-render them. This would also be a very, very slow operation. Nevertheless, I agree with you and would like to have this ability.
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If they're behind, that means the layer that the model is on is higher in the layer list than the layer that you're currently on and trying to add the dimensions to. Drag the layer containing the model down the list so the dimensions draw on top of the model.
If they're going to paper space instead of connecting to the model, your model could be on a locked layer. You can't inference / connect if something is on a locked layer.
If that doesn't fix your issue, respond back.
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All. And since we can't comment about future releases, I think you know the answer to that question without my intervention.
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