I am a user of SU and Layout since 2018. I use it professionally. IT IS A HORRIBLE PROGRAM. And I am not even talking about how it can lock up my MBP M4 MAX. I have a scene, I update the scene. I update the model reference. AND IT CHANGES THE DRAWING IN THE VIEW. MULTIPLE TIMES. BEING VERY CAREFUL…

[image] RTCool: I’m not at all sure of this, but with guides (or anything else for that matter) in exactly the same plane as other faces, there could be a Z-fighting kind of thing where the program gets flaky trying to decide which one to show and which one to hide. I do insert guide points some…

Thank you for the detailed post. You have got me thinking of some new strategies. Again, nice work. [4 South Elevatioin]

[image] ivanjones: I tag each plane and group them in sub folders so it isnt such a mess. This would be another great feature request to have a tool like section planes that dont cut the model. Although its not that time consuming I have one of each in the SU template and simply copy them as nee…

[image] logcreative: One thing I do to make Layout happier and faster is in Sketchup to have tags named ‘2D’ and ‘3D’ for a single object. So if I have an Enscape tree, I’ll have the 3D tree geometry on the 3D tag and a plan representation of it on the 2D tag. So, when in a plan scene, I turn of…

Well updating a Scene that a Viewport is based on, and then wondering why the Viewport changed might not be very smart.

Yes very helpful. [image] ivanjones: Dimensions snap nicely to the vector lines or the center of a window opening avoiding snapping to non visible geometry. This is what I was trying to do. You and @RTCool have given me much to think and experiment with. Thank you.

[image] bmike: When I do construction documents I need to show where the windows are, but I don’t need the window to be detailed enough to manufacture the window. Same goes for kitchen layouts - clients need to know the stove fits, and basically what it looks like (for CDs, not for rendering) - …

After cooling down. Taking a walk. Venting to the forum I Rebooted and opened only SU and LO LO returned to working the way I expect. Meaning the viewport stopped jumping around. I still have the ghost Guide not coming though. ( I think rethinking of how I use guides from multiple suggestions will …

Im not clear when you talk about your “Guides”. If they are SketchUp guides I wouldn’t do that. Maybe make a 2d square or a short line in SketchUp to represent the component as a proxy that you tag in SketchUp and can turn on in Layout so you can dimension to it. This way you can have all those comp…

I hate layout it is very very bad

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michael12 September 22, 2025, 11:39am 25

Yes very helpful.

This is what I was trying to do. You and @RTCool have given me much to think and experiment with. Thank you.

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I hate layout it is very very bad

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