Using Layout to create an elevations drawing - a few "WTF's?"

[DaveR]

@adammacer

I tried to work this way today and instead of pasting in the first additional copied view, it would paste a copy of the initial view… First “WTF?”

WTF are you pasting from SketchUp into LayOut. That’s not the correct work flow. You should either use Send to LayOut or File>Insert to get the SketchUp file into LayOut. The first viewport will show the scene that was active when you last saved the SketchUp file.

@adammacer

Some time later, having tried a number of times to paste in the view, it decided instead that it wanted to copy the text of the scale I had selected in the ‘SketchUp Model’ dialogue box!!!.. Yup, it pasted “3/16” = 1’-0" (1:64)"… Second “WTF?”

Share the LayOut file.

@adammacer

So I created a bunch of scenes, created multiple viewports then went to select a different scene = no option other than ‘Last saved sketchUp view’ which was checked. “WTF?” #3

WTF. Did you update the reference in LayOut after you added the scenes and saved the changes?

@adammacer

By chance I noticed that, just above ‘Scenes’ there was an option ‘Standard Views’ so I tried selecting a couple and lo and behold, the different views of the model! Awesome… 20 minutes later I had a drawing with direction labels, windows greyed out and a block of black where the ground is.

If you use the correct workflow you don’t need to select the standard view. You just select the scene.

@adammacer

Anyone able to shed light on why these utterly random, inconsistent PITA’s happen?

It’s all user error. don’t throw your computer out the window. It doesn’t deserve that.

@adammacer

now it won’t let me delete my title block (which I copy and paste from one drawing to another -

Probably because the layer that the title block is on is locked. Again, share the LayOut file so we can see what you’ve got and give you some specific guidance.