For whatever reason when I export my LayOut drawings to PDF, whether in Raster or Hybrid, black dots are added to faces of parts that I have drawn. There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the SKU model and you cannot see these black dots in LayOut. Has anyone had this problem?
I haven’t seen it. Can you share the LO file along with the PDF you’re getting? We can try on a different machine and see if the same dots appear.
For some context, this is a wood screen and there are 1/2" x 1" vertical pickets that I created as a component and copied across the rails. The circles represent decorative nails, but above the circles some of the pickets have a dot shown only in the PDF export. It seems odd that only some of the pickets have theses dots
Wood Screen.layout (115.1 KB)
Wood Screen 2.pdf (23.7 KB)
I see the dots you are referring to. Like these.
They are actually displayed in LayOut but they are so small due to the scale of the viewport and the Line Scale that they aren’t apparent. I scaled the viewport up to 1:1 here and made the Line Scale 2 pt. and they are easy to see.
I don’t see anything in the SketchUp model that would account for those dots, though. The objects are all clean. This looks to me as if LayOut has added some artifact here. It might be that @adam from the LayOut team would have some insight.
Unrelated: I notice you haven’t created a scene in SketchUp for the view in LayOut. You’ve also modified the Camera properties/position. Using the Last saved SketchUp view instead of a scene and modifying the camera in LO is risky and can result in unexpect extra work, especially if you start adding dimensions and labels in the model.
Quite the same remarks as Dave. Got a BugSplat when closing the embedded model, though.
That’s interesting. Did you send it in? I didn’t get a splat when I closed it.
I sent it, but it might have been about some not updated extensions.
I see the dots, but they are not consistent.
I deleted the middle rail and they went away… it seem like they might be a midpoint artifact?
Yeah I am pretty new to layout and the best practices so this is much appreciated.
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