So there are actually two separate programs/apps that are being referred to here (maybe technically more, but I'm not entirely familiar with Hololens.)

There's the SketchUp AR premium feature that is built into the free SketchUp Viewer for Android and iPhone. It's pretty cool. It creates an interactive Augmented Reality display of your model, using your phone and camera as a "window" to view your model, "projected" onto a table or some other flat surface. You can walk around the table and whatnot and view your model from different angles. I've heard some reports that the feature is still appearing to be in "beta" mode, which makes it available to everyone. But eventually it will be switched to only being available to Shop, Pro, and Studio subscribers.

The desktop VR SketchUp viewer works with Vive, Rift, WMR, and Hololens. They need to do a better job at linking to the download. It appears on your My account page when you first sign up for the trial. For some reason it's not on the https://www.sketchup.com/download/all page. Here's a link to a direct download for the SketchUp VR viewer https://www.sketchup.com/SketchUpViewerVR-exe (Sorry, I think that's just a Windows link, they don't really link to the program on the website from what I've found. )

I do plan on doing a more in depth tutoiral on the AR/VR features, but you can take a look at my brief overview on the SketchUp 2019 review I wrote up. https://mastersketchup.com/sketchup-2019-subscribe

Thanks everyone! Nick and I put a ton of work into this book and we think it is really going to help a lot of people make the push to going 100% SketchUp and LayOut. I will be on chat at http://url.sketchucation.com/su2layout4archi for most of the day (I'm stopping for lunch right now). If you don't catch me just leave a message.

I'm having problems with locking axis reference while drawing a classic bezier curve. It looks like it's trying to, as the "square mark" at the cursor is filled and turns color depending upon which arrow key I press, but it does not restrict axis for me. I'm on a Mac, SketchUp 2015 Pro. I've looked at the manual and thought I am doing everything right. I swear I had it working earlier today...

@dave r said:

I did miss that. What happens if you turn off Auto Render in LO?

Auto Render in LayOut isn't really the right answer to the problem. If you simply switch to a different style in SketchUp, or "reload" the style you're on, the temporary style changes are forgotten and you're good to go.

It's just that if you make temporary changes to the style, and save your model as-is, you'll get into trouble. It's a good trap for people who don't know what's happening. Because once you open SketchUp again to check your model, your first instinct is to go click on the style to make sure the settings are correct, and sure enough, they will be. So it's confusing.

@dave r said:

@msketcher said:

...you think you're just going crazy.

Are you sure you aren't?

Sorry. It was an easy opening.

I learned a long time ago with LO to make sure that my SU model shows no un-updated styles; that is, no styles which display the circular arrows over the thumbnail; before saving the file and going or returning to LO. if I make a change to a style setting, I click on the thumbnail to update the style or, I right click on the scene tab and choose Update from the context menu. If the style is different from the scene's definition, the warning box pops up asking what to do with the style. Some people do turn off that warning box and that seems to create all kinds of trouble for them.

Dave, you might be missing the point. I DON'T want the style to update. I'm just making a temporary change to a style setting to help me while modeling. I don't want those temporary changes to affect my scenes, and I wouldn't expect them to because I never followed through and clicked "Update Style." But SketchUp pushes those temporary overrides to all scenes that are using that style.

SketchUp shouldn't change a scenes' style unless the style has been actually updated by the user.

@pbacot said:

Yes it happens on the Mac. The thing is if the other scenes have the same style, you've not done a style change, so you still see the style which is under temporary adjustment.

Does that really happen in LO?

Here are the conditions that will cause all your LayOut scenes to get messed up:

1. Save scenes with a specific style.
2. With that same style active, make some temporary style overrides. (Don't save the style)
3. Save your model.
4. Open LayOut, Update model reference. (All your viewports will show the temporary style overrides, even though you didn't save them to the style.)

I guarantee a million people have had this happen and didn't even know it. I know I have. The problem is it's an easy fix. Just open SketchUp again, click on any style, and you're all set. So it's nearly impossible to put your finger on, you think you're just going crazy.

Exactly, my temporary tweaks are being associated to other scenes. That's the point I'm trying to make.

@driven said:

I can't get it to do that on my mac...
the scenes switch styles even if one is in update state...

Is it only when your not in the model collection? [your in the default collection in your video]
john

Perhaps Mac is different?

Regarding "In Model" vs "default", it's my understanding that as soon as you click on a style in any folder, it creates a copy, saves it in your "In Model" folder. So you're actually seeing and editing the "In Model" copy regardless.

@rich o brien said:

But then the models loaded style would need to either undo changes to default to the collection config or load in a style of the same name with different display settings.

All styles changes need to be new styles. Hence that pop up you get when it detects changes between scenes.

Did you check the 'don't ask me again' option for that?

This really doesn't have to do with the style warning window that pops up when saving scenes. In the video, you can see that I selected a style, then immediately saved the scene, no changes were made to the style. No warning window appeared.

Think about any time you've needed to make a temporary change to a style setting. Maybe you flipped Xray on in order to see something better, or you toggled section planes to tweak the position a little.

You don't care about saving these small changes, you just did them on the fly. So why would you want SketchUp to show these style changes in all of your scenes when you intentionally avoided clicking Update style?

Imagine someone creating a LayOut document of a kitchen.

They have all their viewports set up, elevations, plan view, assigned to scenes, which have styles saved with them.

Imagine at one point in the project they open SketchUp and turn on section planes so they can tweak them a little bit. If they happen to be in the same style they saved the scenes with, and save their model, they're going to have a surprise next time they open LayOut.

In LayOut, all of their viewports will then change to show section planes, even though they didn't update the style to have this happen. Simply because they saved SketchUp with an unsaved style override, those overrides will show up in every scene that has that style in it.

Doesn't make sense to me.