I was hoping that Layout 2026 would be more relyable than 2025, but no way 
By reassigning or updating SKP references it often colses with a splat screen
I have the feeling it is still getting worse, compared with Layout 2023.
And no, it has nothing to do with the new grafic engine, already switched of …
I haven’t had any issues with this in LO2026.
Where are your SketchUp references saved?
Are you sending in the Bug Splat reports with your name and email attached so someone can look them up and give you an idea of what’s causing it?
Yes, report send with Mail-Adress (Name I don’t remember…)
In this case, the references where saved on my local drive:
C:\Users\username\Documents\Aussensauna\2 Detailzeichnungen\0 Möbel\Anschlusskasten
and it is the same folder where the Layout file is located…
In other cases I have all files on a distant server, but nearly all the time the Layout file is located in the same folder as the SKP file…and yes, I verified, name and mailadress…and highly reproducable with the local files…
Although it doesn’t explain the splats with the files saved locally, working on files saved to a “distant server” has proven to be problematic for many users who have had their files fatally corrupted working that way.
Maybe @colin will have time to look up your Bug Splat reports and give you some information.
I looked at the two bugsplats you sent in. They are not the same issue. One may be related to stipples, the other was to do with file references.
Not sure what to suggest for now, though it may be worth us trying your files.
Thanks Colin.
What means stipples?
And how we could go on, you could download the files here:
I get a Bug Splat with his file, too, Colin. #2018.
I wonder if it has anything to do with Skalp.
@colin I don’t remember what the second bugsplat-file was.
I can’t find it out by myself, right? But I think it was something without use of the Skalp plugin…
And you said, there should be 2 different reasons why crashing…
The download links are not working, so I can’t try the files.
The crash Dave got was the same as one of your two crashes. Very few people have had that kind of crash.
Stipples are to do with fill patterns I think. Do you use Skalp? There was a Skalp related issue a while ago, but that was fixed in an update to 2025.
??Why not working? @DaveR you have downloaded it, right?
I also as a test have asked a collegue to open the link and the files, worked …
maybe there was a temporarily problem with wetransfer?
Anschlusskasten_R02_13112025.zip (11.7 MB)
Hope this works…the crash happens in Layout2026 and 2025
Yes! Of course I downloaded it. How else would I have been able to get the Bug Splat report I sent in?
I started looking at the file, noticed the incorrect tag usage created by Skalp, and decided I wasn’t interested in trying to fix your file.
Sure, was only a “rhetorical” question…
so it seems like SKALP creates the mess?
But still can’t understand why in Layout2023 all works fine, and then….so I have to keep Sketchup 2023 or say goodbye to SKALP…what I really don’t want, even it has some issues….
I don’t know for sure that it is SKALP that causes the problem. I have seen LayOut files from others who used the extension and had problems similar to yours. I’ve never had any of my own files do the same thing yours does but I don’t use SKALP. Might not be related but maybe it is.
I’m not telling you to say goodbye to SKALP. Clearly there’s some issue somewhere, though.
I would suggest creating a new model for the project without using SKALP. Start from scratch.See if it still has the same issues or not.
I did get a crash the first time I tried rendering a viewport, but then couldn’t get it to crash again.
With the files you gave, what are steps that will cause a crash every time?
Layout 2026 crashes everytime I try to update the SKP file.
Now I downloaded and unpacked from wetransfer, disabled the former SKP link so it will update from the unpacked file…crash, sent again a report, #2121…everytime updating the skp file, no matter if on the server or in the same folder as the layout file, it creates a bugsplat
Thanks, that gave me an idea to get a crash every time. For me, I open your LayOut file, choose the Update All, then on the page, where I have auto turned off for rendering, I select all, and click the Render button. Some viewports render ok, but eventually there is a crash. I should be able to work out which viewport causes the problem, and what is different about that one.
The previous problem I mentioned was related to using Skalp features with the new graphics engine in SketchUp. Using the classic graphics engine didn’t show the problem. That’s the case for your file as well. You could go into SketchUp preferences, graphics, and choose the older graphics engine. Then you won’t get crashing.