Inconsistent edits to Title Block in Layout

Me again.. Created a Layout file with 3 pages (other than the Cover page). Duplicated the first page to have the same Title Block format on each. I edited the title for each drawing on each page which worked fine. Then I went to edit the Scale info on a page - I have 1:50 drawings and 1:100 drawings on different pages, and Layout seems to be duplicating the edit on every page - so all are either labelled 1:50 or 1:100. I can’t get the 1:50 drawings labelled 1:50 and the 1:100, etc.

674VICTORIA-PERMITDRAWINGS.layout (1.9 MB)

That text in the title block is on a shared layer so whatever you do on one page is going to show on every other page.


The clues that it’s on a shared layer are, of course the same change showing on each page along with the maroon bounding box and the marroon square next to the layer name when it is selected. Note the icon in the far right column of the Layers window indicating that the layer is a shared one.

You could split that text box into two with the Scale on an unshared layer so you can make it different for each page.

BTW, is there a reason you are still using SketchUp/LayOut 2022?

Aha, I wasn’t aware of shared layers! Thank you

2022 - I am currently running on an old Mac that won’t run anything more recent

You’re welcome.

You shoud go through the LayOut tutorials at learn.sketchup.com before you get much deeper into your LayOut project. It would end up saving you a lot of time and effort.

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