I have a model that I sent to Layout. Then I tried to copy/paste the layout file to my other layout file with my construction set. When I paste it onto the CD it comes in as an image file instead of the sketchup model as expected. What do I do?
I just copied a viewport between LO files in LO 2024 on my computer and the pasted viewport is still a viewport and not an image. Share both LO files so we can see what you are working with.
for reference I’m using mac os and sketchup/layout pro 2024
I’m on Windows 11 with SketchUp/LayOut 2024. The copying and pasting went fine although it was slow–I sped up the pasting part for the video.
It would go faster if you cleaned up the SketchUp model. You have a lot of incorrect tag usage.
A huge amount of file bloat due to unused components and materials.
And some excessively large texture images.
That cleanup knocked about 90% off the file size which would make it much easier to work with in LayOut.
I also noticed that the SketchUp file in your copy-from LO file is the backup copy, not your working copy of the SketchUp model. The tilde ~ in the file name is the giveaway. That’s probably not the file you want to be copying anyway.
Out of curiosity, is there a reason you sent it to LayOut to copy the viewport and paste into the CD? It would be more straightforward to simply insert the .skp file into the CD directly. In LayOut use File>Insert.
Also looking at the CD, there are a whole lot of references with no path in the References list. Most of them aren’t used anymore and should be purged but the ones that are used, just show as gray rectangles in the LO doc.
After purging the list is much shorter.
Are you working on this file while it is saved to the cloud somewhere? Are your references saved to the cloud or are you copying and pasting references into LayOut?
Thanks for your research, Dave! I’m not sure which part of this was the solution… but it seems to be working now.
Lots of things I’m doing wrong here - like using the backup version of the sketchup file.
I purged the unused geometry, components, and materials.
Layout wouldn’t let me do file>insert which is what I normally would… maybe because the file was so large…
Anyway. Thanks!
I wonder if you were trying to select the backup file.
Glad it’s working now.