Layout; If “Pages” could appear as “Tabs” across the top of the viewing area, One could view different pages by clicking along the various page tabs. That would be very convenient.
BTW, As a very experienced SU user (circa 1900’s) Layout has always been a bottleneck. Stuff in SU does not always work the same way in LO.
I find the power of LO for dimensioning and other documentations is very useful (for example it is very difficult to print any useful from a SU model).
If you are looking suggestion on how to make LO even more useful;
Better interrogation between the SU model and LO would be nice. For example; One has to go out of LO into SU to hide a component (for a better view). He has to go to SU, make the change, create a new scene (or “Tag” with that small change), save the file, go back to LO, relink the model and try again. (Not to mention LO does not always reflect the changes).
If you guys can make the process more elegant, that would be good.
Thanks
John.
LayOut will reflect changes to the SketchUp model providing you haven’t overridden the scene properties for the viewport in LayOut. If you have modified those properties in LayOut it is assumed that those are the settings you want regardless of what you’ve done to those properties in SketchUp’s scenes. Resetting the properties in the SketchUp Model panel in LayOut will allow the viewport to update to reflect the changes in the model.
As an experienced user I’m sure you know this but just in case, if you open the SU and Layout files separately then once a change is made in SketchUp you need to save and then in layout right click and “update model reference” to see changes. However, if you open Layout file first then right click on a viewport and choose open with SketchUp this sets up a live link that will update all viewports every time the SketchUp file saves any changes, no updating or relinking required.
Yes, Just like that. Each "tab’ is a page in the LO project.
How did you do that? I can’t seem to find a setting or option to enable that functionality.
Once you’ve got the tabs set up you can switch pages for each tab as needed. Maybe you don’t really need a tab for every page in your document.
You can also split the main window horizontally of vertically you you can compare pages without really switching back and forth. Right click on the scene tab.
Yes. I use this a great deal to use a single scene for multiple viewports. Often I want to stack viewports to do things like show hidden features or emphasize details by using different styles. Or I use it to show different views of the model. Here, all five of these viewports are created from the same SketchUp scene. The only difference is which tags are displayed or not displayed.
There are five viewports in this next screenshot, too. They all use the same scene but with different tag visibility and different styles which are selected in LayOut.
On the left the viewport in the circle is done with a clipping mask and a style that includes section cuts. In the middle there’s a slightly opaque rectangle on a layer between the wiewport showing only the carousel horse and the section view of the shed behind.
Dude,
You are the master. I never noticed that setting in the Windows Tab.
New question. Is there a video showing how to add a template to a project that you started without picking one at the start? I have always just used plain paper to start with.
Now I am getting a little better at LO, and would like to start using more features. (Sort of walk before I run kind of thing.)
There might be but I don’t know of a specific one. A template in LayOut is really just a LayOut file that already has some settings made to it. If you’ve got a project going already and you want to add template-type stuff, just add it. At some point you should probably create your own template with the stuff you need so you don’t have to add it to every project.
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