There's no import/export of shortcuts directly, but you can copy
them if you want.
The shortcuts file is located here-
C:\Documents and Settings[YOUR_NAME]\Application Data\Google\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut
Its just a text file.

@ronanr said:

But then I noticed that if I orbited the model within LayOut, this problem appeared on its own within the SketchUp window of my LayOut page...
Ronan

Then that sounds like z-fighting. You have More than one face at the
same location. You'll need to offset or delete the face(s) so they
don't fight with each other.

You're probably on a Mac and running out of memory.
You can add a preference by hand to preferences.xml, I'll need some
help from other Mac users to find where the xml file lives for LO since
I don't have my Mac to look for it myself. What you'll need to do
is look in the xml file (just a text file) for-

<t:dicItem key="auto_update">
<t:variant type="1">1</t:variant>
</t:dicItem>

cut-n-paste the following snippet right after the above in the file
(you'll see the pattern of options in the file) -

<t:dicItem key="render_to_lbmp">
<t:variant type="1">1</t:variant>
</t:dicItem>

Let me know if this works once you add it.

@rocker9455 said:

does anyone else find that layout is incredibly CPU hungry and Memory Hungry? i find that it eats up to 90 - 100% of my cpu sometimes and regulary is about 200-300 mb in taskamanger, im not so bothered about ram as i have 1.25gb of it. im just extremly curious why it is this intensive? i also find that it is very slow sometimes

LO2 on Win has multi-core support now, so it should feel a little more responsive.
LO1 would always render every time you changed the inserted model (size/rendering props).
LO2 now has a delayed rendering option so its up to you when you want to render.
LO2 uses a lot less memory now and handles large paper sizes.

@qwerter said:

Recently made the step from Sketchup free to the Pro version.
The main reason for this was that I though I would be able to export big Pdf files (A2, A1, A0,).
My problem is that, although I'm able do do this, the exported Pdf does not show the selected Sketchupstyle and shadows??
I already tried using Layout and the style comes out great but couldn't find any way to make a Pdf bigger then A3?
Is there a way around my problem?

LO 2 should be able to handle large papers sizes now. LO just left beta.
Post any problems you find please.

@cannon5598 said:

Hi all,
I do however have a small problem with Layout (I know it is still Beta) but when I try to save a drawing A1 as a pdf it is always blank, is there a work around or is this to be fixed.

Try LO 2 and see if its working now. It has much better handling of large page sizes now.
It even has multi-core support. (Win only for now)

@unknownuser said:

I would like to have an option to define two independent resolutions for:

• screen (say 75dpi - for easy, faster editing and smaller layout file size)
• printing (say 300dpi)
  I have found it quite irritating when having to switch back and forth resolutions
  when editing and printing.

LO2 has edit/output resolution settings.

@unknownuser said:

I hope that in the future release of LayOut we have the ability to set a layer specific to a page. [as with ACAD] If it is, it will provide another function to visibilty to a LayOut file without duplicating layers for each page...

Try LO 2 and see if it does what you want.

@remus said:

Nice work baz.
Unfortunately your right in saying layout doesnt have an image export, does seem like a rather glaring omission really.

LO 2 has image export.

@linea said:

I really hope Google sort Layout out, it is so near. The lack of vector output is IMHO the biggest problem.

Done

Do your clients ever ask for changes to your SU model?
Something to be a different color?
How about if they want to move a door a window? Add a car or
dog in the driveway? If so wouldn't it be nice to do those changes
in SU, and then just tell your presentation to update? LO will
automatically rerender all your images.
You can also export your LO doc to PDF.

In the first version of LO, you would do View->Full Screen to do a presentation.
To do an animation in full screen mode, it doesn't animate the pages, it can
animate the SU models. Double clicking on the SU model will put you in orbit mode,
right click on it and select Play Animation to animate through the Scenes.

Ideally you would create an A0 LayOut document and then File->Insert your skp file.
But since LayOut is still in beta, it has problems rendering to large bitmaps.
This should be fixed in the next release.

The real question is how do you specify the normals? You're just giving GL_QUADS the vertices.

This is just a guess, but polygons need normals to do lighting, so the default normals are probably causing the bad lighting.
Let's say the normals default to 0,0,0- then that would give you a 0,0,0 for color.

Can you post the LO file?

Are you on Windows?

You could try registering the SketchupViewer.dll- LO probably can't find it.
Open a DOS box, and cd to here-
C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 6\LayOut
or where your layout.exe is installed.
Then do-
regsvr32 SketchUpViewer.dll

This should popup a dialog saying succeeded. If it doesn't say succeeded, then reinstalling is best.

What is the "aspect ratio Ruby"? If the script messes with the gray bars
that photomatch draws, it could be what's causing the problem.

Is this happening on the Mac or PC? If PC its not a graphics card problem.
Can you post the skp or layout file?

This problem seems fixed in the next release. Make sure you're signed up for
the beta (pre-release, not the current version) to confirm we fixed it.