I’m doing my first Layout file using 2025. When I add a dimension the lines are there but the number is blank. I know the file is linked to the SU model because when I use a label on the layout viewport it gives the correct dimension. The sqm label works too. See screen grab in the first instance.
I have tried copying the viewport to a new layout file and relinking but it still doesn’t work. Copied it into Layout 2024 and it works fine, but still doesnt work in 2025. Help! I don’t want to keep doing stuff in 2024. Thanks.
This appears to be a Mac-specific bug. What graphics engine are you using in LayOut?
Font issue?
I’ve been switched over to 2025 for a bunch of ongoing projects and haven’t seen anything in my work - curious if I can try and get this result. But I am working in imperial, exclusively in the new engine.
There is another thread where a Mac user reported the same thing. I copied the contents to new pages on my PC and the dimensions appeared. After sending the new LO file to the owner she had no problem with the dimensions displaying.
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Yeah - would be curious if ends up being font issue. They would likely all be replaced when you open it and save it.
The font in the document I fixed was set to Verdana so there wasn’t any replacement in the file when I opened it. Label text, also in Verdana, displays fine.
Is there anything you can share for 2025? I could make some random guesses but an example file is better.
Random Guess #1 - your font is set to white. Cmd-t and look:
Rando #2 - Font is super tiny? I can see a blue arrow - hit cmd-t and what’s your font size?
If I make my font size 1pt, it looks like this:
Rando attempt #3 Use the pick style to make that dimension match the style of another dimension that you CAN see, somewhere, anywhere, even in blank page space. Then,
- Select the dimension you have selected.
- Hit ‘b’ (default shortcut for copy style, a different shortcut in 2025) - Eyedropper cursor appears.
- Sample (click on) your working dimension with text. Bucket cursor appears.
- Click on your dimension without text.
Does anything change. Let’s start there and see if any of that helps.
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You responded to me but I think you wanted to respond to @jo.hobbs
When I started typing, yours was the only response, Dave, so I thought it’d work. Let hope something worked for @jo.hobbs
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FWIW, on the file I worked on the other day for another user, the font color is set to black and 18 point. There’s a label shown in this screen shot that is in the same font but is 9 pt. Same font.
As I wrote in the other thread, copying the content to a new LO file fixed it.
Copying some of the dimensions and the label and pasting them into a new document.
Hi Barry, thanks for thoughts!
Rando 1: definitely not white
Rando 2: Font not tiny
Rando 3: Opened a 2023 Layout plan with dimensions in 2025, some dimensions were there but some had done the same as my issue which was strange. I copied a visible style, clicked on missing style and the dimension line visibly altered but text was still blank. See screen capture vid..
When I asked about the graphics engine I meant which one LayOut is using. Look in Settings>Performance under the LayOut menu to the left of File.
Ah sorry. Experimental. Ive turned it off but still the same. Problem file here…
@Barry can take a look at the LayOut file and it may help him and his team to identify the problem. I did copy the content to a new LO project and the dimensions appeared.
Had a Eureka moment… I think it’s to do with templates. Copy and pasting a bad dimension into a new layout native template worked. Some of my own templates worked but some didn’t. Can you suggest what I can do with my current templates or shall I redo them from scratch in 2025?
I wonder what it would be about your template that would cause this. I did just start a new file using the shipped A3 grid paper template. Your template doesn’t seem to have much in it. Mainly just a Dimensions layer in addition to the Default and On Every Page layers.
Did you do anything else to set up your template?
I don’t know. It’s one I created in 2023 Layout and just brought across when I upgrade. I tried resaving the same template as a new template in 2025 and the same problem happened, so I think I just need to redo all my templates!
Hmmm… Maybe. I haven’t seen any issues with old templates or old project files of mine but I’ll keep an eye open.