I have a layout file and one of the pages will not open and locks up the file. I can't delete the page or do anything to it as when I click on it it crashes layout. Does anyone know how to get this page out of the file, I don't want to start a new file as that's a lot of work down the drain...any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Has anyone found a way to get the 3d content from open street map exports(.osm) into sketchup? Would be a tremendous tool to take things beyond simply geolocating within sketchup.

Thanks in advance,

Chad

thanks pcmoor, that was exactly what I was looking to do.

I love using the label tool in layout to quickly grab the area of a face in sketchup. While I appreciate the 4 decimal points of accuracy in the default format, for architecture we are typically looking to round the nearest whole square foot. Its not a big deal to edit the text, but would be nice if we could adjust this. Is there is a way to adjust the format of the results?

Thanks in advance

Chad

I was wondering if anything came of this question? I am also looking for a way to change the color of the shadows in sketchup. when we used to hand render everything we would never use a black shadow ...blue violet or indigo always brought more life to the drawing for those of you who remember prisma colors.

thanks,

Chad

I have the same issue. If I render it first with raster and then switch to layout it looks good until it gets updated....I have explored several band aids for this such as using a transparent plane to separate the distant content but even that has issues with transparency and hybrid mode.

I recently had to flip an entire noted floor plan left to right. the dimensions reacted in a beautiful way, keeping their readability and just flipping position. All the other notes were a different story...would be great if all text could have a flip option to "flip position, retain orientation"? would have saved a ton of time flipping individual text elements and in general re noting plans.

Thanks so much for the thorough and thoughtful help, exactly what I was looking for! turns out my default dim style in my template had gotten wonky. Things are now looking as expected. Thanks again!

I noticed the other day that my dimension leader endpoints in 2015 are staying tight to the points on the sketchup model. In past versions of layout I thought there was a small but desirable gap between the end of the leader and the model content the leader was referencing. Anyone else experiencing this lack of gap or know how to get that back... also the dimension extensions are now pretty wild, would love to trim those back a bit. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Chad

Forgot to mention its difficult to reset the axes accurately without seeing them to right click them.

thanks,

chad