Feedback on the Latest SketchUp Layout Update (2026)

LayOut
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I spend hours and hours drawing in SketchUp, and then producing my construction documents in SketchUp Layout. However, since the latest update, the way to pan a model view in Layout has changed from shift + Middle Mouse Button to Left Click.

This is extremely frustrating. I constantly trigger the wrong action, and I have to undo the view position every time. After spending so many hours in SketchUp using shift + Middle Mouse Button to pan the view, switching to Layout where it suddenly becomes Left Click makes no sense to me.

Why was this changed?
This inconsistency between SketchUp and Layout slows down my workflow and causes repetitive mistakes. It would be much more intuitive and efficient if both applications used the same controls for navigation.

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The change was done because a lot of people were wanting to move the viewport left or right, and accidentally got into the 3D view and orbited the scene instead. Now if you accidentally double-click, you would only pan the scene slightly. The camera direction would remain the same.

@trent may be able to say more about this.

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Yeah, not much more to say, we did change this behavior back in 22 or 23 and as Colin has indicated, this was to help prevent users from performing an orbit if a viewport was accessed.

Trent

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Now you can just adding both for pan : left click / shift + middle mouse to prenvent people of orbit when lookîng for a pan … or left click for previous orientation …

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not sure I understand, so I’ll switch :

tu veux dire quoi par lĂ  ?

actuellement, par défaut, le clic gauche donne un panorama pour éviter la rotation accidentelle.
mais le clic molette donne toujours la rotation et le clic molette + shift donne toujours le panorama.

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Bonjour,

je suis passé du 2022 pro au 2026 Studio, motivé par scan essentiel principalement.

Sous Layout quand on edite la vue : le click gauche = pan, le click milieu souris = orbit, shift + click milieu souris = orbit egalement !

Je trouve ça dommage quand tu as passé des heures a dessiner en utilisant shift + souris milieu pour le pan et quand tu passes a Layout il faut se deconditionner pour utiliser le pan avec le click gauche.

Ce n est pas la seule différence entre layout 2022 et layout 2026 qui me gene, il y a aussi le snap objet quand on deplace la vue qui ne fonctionne pas, mais ce sera l’objet d’un autre post.

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non. ça fait pan

le fonctionnement reste le même que dans sketchup, mais le click gauche, ne pouvant rien sélectionner, donne aussi pan.

ici, je commence par faire un simple click gauche. panoramique.
puis click molette, j’orbite. et ensuite j’alterne le click molette avec ou sans shift, et ça pan.

Tu appuies bien sur shift, et pas sur autre chose ? dans ton premier message tu parles de ctrl.

:uk:

looks like on their machine, shift + wheelclick doesn’t pan. that’s odd, it works on mine. anyone on a PC can try?

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Works ok

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yeah but inside a sketchup window ?
(it’s not something we often do, because it’s not something that should be done :smiley: )

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Inside a SketchUp window (viewport) that is in LayOut is the issue I believe OP is having.

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Thanks, bmike! I finally tested now.
It works… sort of… but a bit strange. If you activate Orbit first, then Pan works automatically, without pressing any key.

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Here is my screen capture, no pan with shift + middle click but orbit

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Hi,

No solution, no update ?

I think I will go back to my S2022.

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