Hi, I have been looking everywhere but couldn’t find how to add a simple viewport in Layout, could anyone help me out? I deleted the viewport it automatically came with when opening the Layout project.
That wasn’t the best idea. Go back to SketchUp, send to LO and then copy the viewport from the new document to your project file.
Amazing, thanks for the quick reply DaveR! I did manage to load the Sketchup project in Layout before but was lost on how to create a viewport in it. I’m used to Revit where you create a sheet first and then drag the view onto the sheet, hence I was expecting something similar with Layout, but it makes sense to send the project from Sketchup to Layout as they’re two different programs
Edit: one thing I was wondering is why you need to send the project from Sketchup to Layout if the project is already linked in Layout? Or is it just to create the viewport in Layout?
Alternatively you can start a new LO file and then use File>Insert to insert the SketchUp model and get the viewport.
Yes. It’s this. If you hadn’t deleted the only viewport linked to the model this wouldn’t be needed. After you have the first viewport in the LayOut project, copy that viewport to make additional ones. Don’t copy from Sketchup and paste in LayOut and don’t insert the same SKP file again. Once is enough.
LayOut documents can be linked to more than one SketchUp model or other reference types. In a way, LayOut is more comparable with a Revit project than a SketchUp model is.
Just had an “aha” moment. I’ve had issues with these viewports; I used to be able to copy and paste viewports and they would be active and Scenes would be changable within my Layout file. I’ve also had issues inserting my Sketchup file to Layout, to add a viewport.
This time, I simply went to my Sketchup file icon, and clicked and dragged it right into my Layout page, for which I wanted to add a Viewport. It added a viewport which defaulted to the last scene saved in the Sketchup file. Within this new viewport, I can adjust the scene, scale, etc in Layout. I hope this helps someone and saves them the headache I’ve had dealing with this issue.
You should still be able to copy a viewport and change the scene. If that isn’t working it implies to me that you’ve overridden the scene properties–especially the Camera properties in the viewport you’ve copied from. Overriding those properties in LayOut will prevent the viewport from showing another scenes properties if they are different.
Example: The Camera properties for the viewport on the left have not been overridden. The Camera properties for the one on the right have been modified by clicking into the viewport and orbiting the camera. Note the dark gray background in the Camera section of the SketchUp Model panel and the Reset buttons. Changing the scene has no effect on the copy of the right hand viewport until the Camera properties have been reset.
There should be no reason to insert the same SketchUp model file into a LayOut project more than once. Inserting it once should be enough.
Wow, thank you so much for the tips. I really, really appreciate it!
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