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@Sekta said in Size to fit Text Shortcut:

I tried the unbounded text, it behaves the same.

Are you saying Make Unbounded works for your needs?

Problem solved, fixed by simply logging out and back in again...twice.

Another issue I am having relates to the referencing of an Excel file into layout. Previously it worked fine...open up the file, amend it, save it then update in layout and and all good. Now that I have updated to Office365 and Onedrive for my files, the only way to update the Excel file in LO is to close the file. The same file works OK when on Dropbox so is this a onedrive setting / permissions issue? If anyone else has had this issue then I be interested to hear how you fixed it. Thanks

I have the same work flow for years and never have an issue, sketchup files, excel, layout files all in a local onedrive folder. No corruptions but I do have to close excel to update the data in layout and have gotten used to working that way. My guess, as I'm no IT guy, is how onedrive handle excels autosave feature where everything you do is saved immediately meaning the file is always being held by onedrive and layout doesn't like it. I've always wondered if turning autosave off would fix it. Or, because the feature exists, means layout can't never get full access to the data (because onedrive and excel are always connected) thus it's a Microsoft problem, not a layout problem. and potentially why most people are scared of corruption.

Hi Dave,

It wouldn't surprise me, as I mentioned, this model has been a WIP for the past 3-4 years. I think back then I broke my own rule of keeping it simple, I might investigate further this weekend. Unfortunately, I have too much time invested in this model to start all over, as much as I would like to.

Thanks for help Dave, very much appreciated.

Stan

Hopefully one or the other of those methods works for you.

Have a great Christmas, too. Enjoy the beach. The water is already too hard at our little "beach."

@unknownuser said:

es, good to see this happening. But WHY do they have this stupid handle?!? Is snapping working with push/pull? And numeric inputs? How would you snap with this unprecise handle? The videos i watched sadly didn't show any precise push/pull operations.

The fabrics work is tough and we have to do it hard to sketch.

For anyone who comes along and wonders if it was fixed. There was an update released on 27 May, 2020 that fixed the problem.

The release notes. Or note.

Hi Stan-

Thanks for mentioning this issue - error 101 occurs when there's a LayOut group with only one entity in it. It's an internal sort of error that we don't really ever want to display to someone using LayOut. I will file a bug in our tracking system to investigate this issue.

If you find a way to consistently cause this error, please share the SketchUp model and your exact work steps with us so we can make sure that your particular case is handled by our fix.

Thanks,
Marc

Yep, XRef Manager works a treat. Thanks 👍 👍 👍

Thanks TIG,
I tried those out but didn't work. After an hour looking and continually updating my Lumion model I discover it was attached to the ground floor wall component. I exploded it and re created the group now its gone. Pretty weird, haven't had that happen before especially when it wasn't on outliner as well.

Sekta, how did you get on with Unfold? I was going to use Flattery but wondered if you'd made anything up yet?

Sonder,

Thanks for the reponse. It only happens with the layer toggled to appear on all sheets. I can turn the visibility on or off but when closing the file it doesnt save the visibiliy. What I have done is gone back to having layers appear on a single sheet (like a construction grid) and copy it to the sheets I want, that seems to work OK. Thanks

Hi unearthed, sorry for the slow response (seems my original reply dissapeared). Our new online solution (AutoTURN Online) will offer SketchUp users the solution you mention. Besides a yearly subscription you can also choose for a 1 month subscription, that could save single time users a lot of money.

The cost will depend on your region and ´vehicle libraries´ used. For 1 month use with 1 vehicle library the pricing would be in the range of $70-$120.

It was officially launched last week and should provide a swept path solution for SketchUp users. We do not yet support all regions but we do support yours (NZ).

You can currently test it for free before your purchase at http://www.autoturnonline.com

Are you using a Macbook? I've had many problems with Sketchup and Layout crashing on my Macbook.

Tried....works great.thanks

Stan

Yes, as an example, go to the arrows scrapbook, page Arrows | 3D | Curved. These are really SketchUp models, so you can open them in SketchUp, adjust fog, color, camera angle, etc... then insert in LayOut.

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Hi Stan,

Not a Word doc but an rtf text file. You can insert these files and they are indeed preserved as such inside the *.layout file (if you rename it *.zip, you will find the rtf files inside)

Hi Eric,

Also when the section plane is hidden (toggled off with the button in its toolbar)?

Interesting because over the Google SU Help Forums, it has also come out with this above results but then Sandra (in that "yet another" forum) also says she is able to snap but I cannot (and obviously others have problems with this, too).