I’m still very new to Sketchup and Layout. I’ve searched the forums but haven’t found any posts that resolve my issue.
I started a new Layout file. I “Insert”, select my Sketchup file, I right click and select the “Scene” I want on that page. I repeat this process for all of the pages in my Layout file. This was working fine, then all of a sudden the first four of my pages all began appearing the same as Scene.
The last five pages all appear as a different Scene. No matter what I do (“Update model”, “Relink model”, “Render”) it won’t change. Even if I add a new page, Insert, select my sketchup file, select a different scene, it will appear as the same Scene as the others. I’ve re-saved, closed everything, restarted my computer, tried many combinations of all of these things multiple times, the issue persists.
My laptop is probably quite underpowered for these programs (I’m looking to get a new one ASAP if anyone has any Windows-based reccommendations) so I’m not sure if that’s the issue, or if I somehow toggled a weird setting somewhere.
Photos: Bottom photo shows what “Scene 4” looks like in Sketchup. Top photo shows that the viewport should be showing “Scene 4” but is actually showing “Scene 1”.
I don’t think it will make a difference, but I would normally select the viewport and then choose the scene in the SketchUp Model tray.
What can make a viewport not look like the selected scene, is if you have changed any other setting to do with the camera. Look in the SketchUp Model tray, and see if there is a Reset All option:
If I’m just starting a new file and select a random template, I can click select a blank viewport on a new page, but without going to File - Insert and selecting my Sketchup model to insert, there’s no Scenes to select from in the Sketchup model tray. What’s your recommended order of operations for setting up a new file to begin with?
I tried that. There was the option to Reset All, and I tried that. It doesn’t seem to have helped.
Briefly (for about the first minute after I just opened my Layout file) I could select a scene and it would load, but now every scene I try to select it’s just giving me the same random shot of a completely different angle within the model.
You’ve overridden the scene Camera properties in LayOut. One of the impacts of that is that the camera position will not change when you select a different scene. And, if you copy a scene after you’ve overriden the Camera property the override gets copied too. Changing the scene won’t change the camera position.
Reset the Camera for each viewport so that it reflects the scene in the SketchUp model. Then do not modify the Caemra properties in LayOut. This includes refraining from double clicking into the viewport to move the camera. Place the camera where you want it for each scene in the model and stick to those. If you later decide you need to change the camera position, do it for the scene in SketchUp. Update the scene, save the changes, and update the model reference in LayOut.
Here I’ve reset the Camera properties for the affected viewports. several of them appear the same but that’s because you selected the same scene for them. I didn’t change any of the scenes. I did reduce the excessively large textures in the SketchUp file so the file is now below the forum’s max file size threshold.
Problem solved. I made sure my Scenes in Sketchup were exactly how I wanted them, and only adjusted in Sketchup if they didn’t turn out how I wanted in my Layout viewports.
I started a new File to start fresh in Layout. I was able to get everything how I wanted it in layout and finally exported to PDF after several days of messing around.
