We know that controlling the style of linework in LayOut projects is important. (There have been entire books devoted to viewport stacking!) With this step towards more robust line control, we hope you will be able to use fewer viewports in LayOut and efficiently produce drawings that look the way you want.
We think this is a step forward for LayOut, but we know there is more work to be done. We’d love to know if this line style control is working to help you make the drawings you want to make. Please share your impressions of this line style control in LayOut and, if possible, examples of the drawings and line work you are hoping to achieve.
The parts of the model are assigned different tags. The back frame parts with one tag are assigned a thin line weight, The shelves and drawer a different weight, and the case parts a third weight.
Edit to add another example. Previously something like the lead came in the glass panel would require a lot of work to get it looking decently.
Now a couple of clicks and those lines are displayed thin and the smaller details are easier to read.
I’m still really working my head into tags vs layers, but this is a workflow that definitely clicks. I’d never put outbuildings on another layer, but I’d gladly assign an outbuildings tag.
BUT, the $64000 question for me is, has the actual performance of Layout been improved for Macs ie the very jumpy and slow zooming in and out? Has the work around of assigning a different Colour Profile been sorted, which helped a bit but has never really solved the problem? And, it’s a bugger if you have a Colour calibrated screen but can not use that Profile because Layout slows to a drunk snails pace.
It doesn’t say anything about this performance issue in the Release Notes.
So the first LO file that I experimented with worked fine - I can override colour, dashes and line weight.
Two other files this morning I can only override the colour.
If I copy and paste a viewport from the file that is working in all aspects of the overrides to the file that is not, the copied viewport works but the not the file’s own viewports
Something is not working and you spend much time trying to solve the problem only to find it’s a typo or a comma is missing or some other such innocuous thing
