I have a model in Sketchup. I have an older version in Layout. I deleted several tags in Sketchup although my Layout model contains them. As I attempt to “open in Skecthup”, none of the tags move with the model giving me the same incomplete model in Sketchup. Is there a way to move tags from Layout to a Sketchup model?
Layout is a compressed file, you can use your preferred tool to show the files it contains, the sketchup file should be there.
I think you don’t have a clear understanding of the LayOut file. When you insert a SketchUp file into a LayOut project, a copy of the .skp file is added but the reference is normally to the original file on your computer. Look at Document Setup>References. If the LayOut file is still referencing the original .skp model, the path will be shown.
If that’s the case, opening the SketchUp file by right clicking on a viewport and choosing Open with SketchUp will open the .skp at that end of that file path.
If the file status is shown as Embedded or Missing, using Open with SketchUp will open the embedded copy of the SketchUp file.
In either case, the tags that are shown in the model reflect the conditions in the SketchUp model. LayOut itself doesn’t have those tags to move. If there are no tags in the SketchUp file you’re opening, there are no tags in the SketchUp file.
To be clear, you said, “If there are no tags in the SketchUp file you’re opening, there are no tags in the SketchUp file.” Do you mean, …tags in the “Layout” file you’re opening…? If yes, my Layout has the tags I would like to move back to Sketchup. I attached what I am seeing
If the issue is with my .skp file, is there a way to make the Layout file seperat from the original .skp file?
No. LayOut doesn’t have tags. The SketchUp reference may have tags but that would depend on how you built the model.
Again, there are no tags in LayOut to “move” to SketchUp. The tags must be in the SketchUp model if they exist.
Your screenshot shows that your LayOut file is referencing a SketchUp file that resides in the Downloads folder. If you right click on the viewport and choose Open with SketchUp, it will be that Eglin2.skp in Downloads that gets opened. If that file, no matter how you open it has no tags, there are no tags.
The staus is shown as Out of Date which means that the .skp file in Downloads is newer than the embedded reference. You could select that .skp file in References and choose Unlink. Then use Open with SketchUp and open the embedded version instead of the one in the Downloads folder. Maybe you removed the tags from the file in the Downloads folder but the embedded copy still has them.
If the embedded copy of the .skp file has the tags you’re looking for, save the .skp file to your project folder and then Relink the embedded copy to that saved copy.
Using the unlink command, worked well. Thanks.
Good. So you have two different SketchUp models. You probably should be sorting that out so you don’t have multiple models to manage for the same project.
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