LayOut 2025 views disappear when I update SU file

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Hi all, not sure if anyone else has had this happen..but…when I’m working in LO and SU, after editing the model and saving then going to LO and updating model reference, a few of my viewports go blank, then if I try to update again, they all go blank (except my plan & section views)!! The first time it happen I relinked the file and all came back. This time however, nothing. This has only started happening today.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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Is the Auto render box ticked in the SketchUp Model panel? If not, tick it.

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Hi DaveR, yes that’s always on

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Can you share the LO file?

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I’ve just opened the files on my home PC (the problem occurred at work) and updated one of the viewports and they all came back :thinking:
Weird

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That is weird but it would be interesting to figure out why it was different on your computer at work.

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Files are the same and saved where? And how are they synched?
Maybe scenes aren’t saved and in-synch?

Whenever you get this issue, confirm in Document Setup->References that you really are current with the external skp file, and not just using the local, cached skp model that’s in your AppData... LayOut\working directory. If that all looks good, export that scene from SketchUp (png for raster, pdf for hybrid/vector) and confirm that image looks OK, because that’s what LayOut is doing.

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Thanks for your input :wink:
Nothing has changed from my day to day setup/config/routine. I even relinked the main SU file. Files are on a server at work but local at home as the works VPN is soooo slow. Maybe it was a server problem :man_shrugging:. Anyway, all good now.

Thanks

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