![]() ![]() LayOut feels like it borrowed its toolset from Powerpoint 2010 Same for the Material browser, Entity Info, Components Layers…etc. LO’s Drafting tools, for example - why not take them directly from SU? (and include some extras, eg from the 2D Tools extension). So could LayOut do some(if not all) of those things much better ? To our simple (non-programmer) minds, it feels like a few tweaks and additions would go a long way. VECTORWORKS VIEWER ANNOTATION PROFESSIONALHowever in many of these areas, LO barely meets professional standard of output. The functions listed above are all things that most design firms need to be able to do. a project information output tool (scheduling, bills of quantities and materials, costings).a tool for project collaboration, design markups & review.a way to import/exporting CAD/3d design information in an accurate way.a presentation package (eg Powerpoint or Keynote).a rendering solution (vray, indigo, maxwell).a raster or vector illustration tool (eg adobe photoshop, adobe illustrator, corel).a document production/desktop publishing (eg Indesign, Publisher) or publish-to-web app (sketchfab).So what is Layout designed to achieve? It seem to be like LO attempts, but doesn’t do a great job of being: (carpentry projects, maybe a single level house, etc?). LO does appear like it is created for, (and presumably tested with) relatively small and simple models. for “LO can’t do large and complex projects quickly or reliably”.+1 for “i would pay a lot more if it worked well” +1 for “Layout has tremendous potential in the industry” Probably difficult for the developers to read but a lot just has to be said. I think this is a very interesting conversation. It has by no means become blindingly fast, but text edits that used to take 5 or 6 seconds now take one second, so there is definitely a significant improvement. In any event, I can now work in LayOut while remaining relatively sane. Maybe LayOut has some kind of issue handling SMB / Samba? That should be plenty enough to handle the limited I/O one would think LayOut generates, and in fact the same hardware setup and connection work just fine with SketchUp itself, as well as with far more data intensive tasks. I access the Synology through a Zyxel 802.11ac router that has a 1733 Mbps throughput at 5 GHz per the manufacturer. On the surface, the improvement does not seem to make much sense. It is still laggy, but it has become usable. To my surprise, LayOut is considerably quicker with the file installed locally. The other day, out of desperation, I thought I’d try moving my 16MB LayOut file from my Synology NAS onto my workstation’s local drive. I thought I’d share as it might help others in the same situation. Well, I’m happy to report that LayOut just sped up considerably for me. ![]()
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