Seems there always more to learn... hoping the knowledgeable crew here can help!
For starters, I recognize that the accepted method of importing particular Sketchup views to Layout is to create a scene in SU then reference that scene in LO. And, in many instances this works quite well and I make use of it in many situations.
However! Since SU does not have any hierarchal structure to the scene window or scene creation with which to organize scenes into discrete "groups" (or the layers window, for that matter), creating a scene for every possible view of a model that one might want to reference in LO becomes pretty unwieldy when one approaches 50 or 100 scenes. Certainly, there are scenes in any given model that one would like to be able to return to, but many of the views into a model, for me anyway, are "one of's" where I simply need to have that view to annotate using LO, and then never have a need to return to it. To do this, I have been using the "send to layout" button, where a new LO file will open, I fine tune the orientation, usually select "hybrid" render option, then copy/paste that view into a different layout document where I do the annotation, creating a "detail" sheet of annotated views. The purpose of this is to document issues with the particular project for reference by the site construction team (I use SU to model custom home structures and MEPS assemblies for contractors).
All well and good, unless and until I find something in the model that needs modification (move a structural element, for example). Then, if I make the mistake of "updating" the model reference in LO (it will prompt for that), everything goes awry with my previously annotated views. Luckily, in the instance that prompted this topic, I did not save LO and was able to revert to "Last saved" and so did not lose hours of the previous day's work. But, it would seem, to me anyway, that a right click on a viewport in LO should bring up an additional option to "delete reference to model", or "freeze model reference" or something similar, so that a save in SU does not translate to a jumbled viewport in LO, if model reference is updated.
I suppose one work around would be to use a screen shot of the SU model at the particular view, then bring that PNG image into LO for annotation, but I lose that fine tune ability of the view orientation.
Any enlightenment from the SU masters here would be greatly appreciated! As I continue my never ending education...
Thanks to all!
Bob
