Hi guys, I’m having troubles with printing or exporting my Lay-Out doc to PDF. As gardendesigner I have a page with the design (=scene in SU) and on the same page is a legend explaining. Like what is grass or pebbles, etc. Now the legend is not printed or just partly. These are the steps I take to…

Make a second SketchUp file. Make 1 meter squares in this new file. Use the materials tool to fill the squares with the materials / textures from your landscape model. Save this file as ‘Legend Texure’. In LayOut go to File>Import and bring in this new SketchUp file. Crop and arrange this new f…

What version of sketchup are you using?Can you share the file? I don’t know what could be the problem without checking it. We could try to guess but it will take us some time to get to the solution.

Hi, You could try going to File>Document Setup>References And try relinking the sketchup file linked to your legend. Once that is done, save and then try exporting your page again. See if this works. Else, you could also change the legend view to ‘vector’ and then export it to a PDF. (In the Sket…

Without seeing the file hard to tell - but you might create a new SKP file with flat squares that have the proper fill. Make a scene in plan view, import this to your LO file and use it to create the legend instead of heavily cropping the main drawing.

[image] sketchupguru: Else, you could also change the legend view to ‘vector’ and then export it to a PDF. (In the Sketchup Model dialog box of the default tray in Layout) Vector won’t show proper textures. Make sure the little boxes are all set to ‘raster’.

Hi Francis, working with the latest version 2023. Thx!

I’ve tried both, and both get the same result…

Hi, the references I had updated before and it does not solve it. When changed to ‘Vector’ it does show up, when changing back to ‘Raster’ it disappears… However showing in Vector does not show the texture which is what I’d like to see.

Hi Mike, Creating a scene in SU with small boxes with the texture does work out. Great, thanks!

SU Lay-Out does not print legend

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bmike December 20, 2023, 10:00am 12

IF you are working in 2023 LayOut please check Document Setup>Rendering - make sure that the ‘override’ is not trying to render your model as vector or hybrid.

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SU Lay-Out does not print legend

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