Topics created by brettsichellodesign

We do have them set on every drawing. It would just be cool if we could make changes across all files. Like maybe an insertable LO file as an x-ref or something.

I just ran across this topic this morning, as I was having this same issue yesterday while drawing some building sections. I thought a hidden line in the plane of the section cut that was missing was causing the issue too. After playing with the model (unhiding the line) and trying, I found that the issue wasn't solved. After reading here, I went back and checked that no groups have textures.

Late last night, I came to the same conclusion as others have reached here. Include a third (for me) viewport to stack with my light and dark viewports for only 2d graphics. These would include faces to hide things beyond what I intend to show. Such as something touching the far end of a beam. Or things within a wall.

Question about stacking viewports though. If I stack my "2D Graphics" viewport on top, will its edge properties ovverride the properties of the cut edges of my main viewport? Or can you set a style with no edges, so that only faces are shown and the edge properties of a viewport below would be visible?

I have a similar issue - Layout does not remember the Page Setup dialogue boxes at all. I have A3 landscape set as the default in Preferences, which works fine, but if I then open Page Setup, select my A3 printer and A3 paper, save and close the file, when I reopen it those settings have reverted back to the default. This can’t be the correct behaviour surely?

Update - I see that it uses the default printer settings from System Prefs - I have an A4 laser as the default. If I change that to my A3 laser, it shows the correct settings in Page Setup. That doesn’t excuse it as bad behaviour though, in my view.

SketchUp Pro 2016 - OS 10.11.6

@otb designworks said:

Brett, when you right click on a sketchup viewer you'll see an "update reference" choice. So two quick clicks and no need to access the document setup window

This isn't true if the viewport is on a locked layer. And the fact is that working with viewport in unlocked layers is bad for your health. So they should be locked. Rightclicking on a locked viewport allows you to do nothing with that viewport.

Also, to update all viewports in a page it shouldn't be needed to specifically right click a viewport.

When you want to update viewport rendering you can righclick on empty space, why not allow for a second line to update viewport references in a single page.

Weird, I responded to this last night using "quick reply" but it must not have posted. Anyways, I couldn't delete the texture but what I did was simply adjust the RGB to black for that one material and that worked perfectly! Thank guys, really appreciated!

@trogluddite said:

@jql said:

...pdf has missing lines. Submited to trimble...

Could be Adobe need a kick up the rear too. I see this problem on a regular basis when exporting PDFs containing images from plenty of other applications too - e.g. CorelDraw, MS Publisher, MS Word, etc...

I wasn't aware of that... Thanks for the info. But now the problem is even greater. What format would one use for this sharing of drawings between architect, client, contractor?

SVG?

On a side note, I also noticed that if I import the pdf to Gimp and print from there, the problem persists...