Posts made by trickfields

@pbacot said:

Auto Update? I've not had LO update without asking first.

It has happen to me. When I open the layout document everything has changed. I dont know why, because usuly Layout ask me if I want to update.

@dave r said:

The auto-update thing is sort of the point of using LayOut but you can overcome it. Under File>Document SetUp, select References. Select the SKP file and choose Embed. This will make LO look only at the embedded copy of the SKP and not the original that you've been modifying. If at some point you wish to update the LO file to the changes you've made, go back to References, select the SKP file and choose Relink. Navigate to the original SKP file and select it. The viewports will be linked to the SKP file you've been editing.

Thank you so much. Yes, in most cases the autoupdate is very useful and I want to keep it on in 90% of my work, but this will help me in the other 10% that I want to turn it off.

I was thinking the only way to do this was to explode the drawing, but that would make it useless if I would need to make changes to the model in the future.

Hello

I'm am working in a project and regularly I have to send pdf drawings to an agency for approvals. I do this before I finish my model in Skethcup, and make layout drawings with measurements. Now I have sent a 10 page pdf document with drawings of a inner sections of my model, and when it came back from the agency there were some changes that I needed to do in the drawings so they could get approval. Since I sent the pdf to the agency I have been working in the skethcup model, making it bigger. When I came back to my layout document to do the necessary all of my pages had changed. (because I had changed the sketchup file).

Is there any way for me to lock the layout file so it wont update the preferences from the sketchup model when I am working in the model?