This one is a Query on the display of Dashed Lines in Sketchup Pro and Layout.
I have attached 2 images; one screen shot from Sketchup showing how Dashed Lines are displayed, and one from Layout showing an Overlay Viewport created and then the Style changed to Dashed Lines, using the new feature where Styles and Layers for Viewports can be selected/modified.
The element is question is a Circular HVAC Duct. As can be seen, in Sketchup it displays correctly. Profiles are turned on in the Saved Style Setting, allowing the ‘edges’ of circular elements to be displayed in dashed lines.
In Layout, when I create the Overlay Viewport and then select the appropriate Layers I want t display, and change the Style to my Saved Dashed Lines Style, it seems to also show every edge which makes up the Circular Duct.
This is not a huge problem, but curious as to why it does this. I would prefer it to display like it does in Sketchup as it is tidier.
Mike, that’s a curious thing. I just set up a test with a plan view of a cylinder and did a similar thing in LO. Selecting a style with dashes gives me the desired appearance in LO.
Orbited the view to show it’s a cylinder.
Previously it hadn’t occurred to me to even try changing Untagged to invisible in the SketchUp Model panel so I didn’t know it was possible. I figured it would be like trying to turn off the visibility of Untagged in SketchUp.
Intuitively, it seems that if all edges and faces were untagged as they should be, turning off visibility for Untagged in LO should make everything disappear. That would mess with some folks.
Remembering what I did, I did a Shift Click to select ALL the Layers to Turn them off, and then selected the HVAC Layer to Turn it back on, rather than click through them one by one.
Doing this, I included Untagged, which I shouldn’t have done, meaning that I turned it off.
Still, I’ll know for next time. Another lesson learnt.
I do love this new feature though. Seems to give a bit more freedom when setting up Scenes in Sketchup, as they can be tweaked/adapted in Layout to suit.
I played around with the Fog setting in Layout too, to see if it would do the equivalent of adding an opacity layer in Layout, to ‘knock’ the viewport back, visually, before stacking another viewport on top. It didn’t seem to do much, and I could not see a setting for depth/distance of Fog. I assume then, that the Fog must be added in Sketchup first, and the Layout Fog Option just allows it to be turned on or off.
