
Introduction
The dashboard
Create new document
Document setup
Save and export your work
Zoom and move in the document
Open directly Layout from Sketchup
Selection tool
Line tool
Arc tool
Circle tool
Rectangle tool
Polygon tool
Style tool
Offset tool
Eraser tool
Dimension tool
Scrapbooks
Text tool
Table tool
Label tool
Grid tool
Scale Sketchup model
Scale drawing and image
Understand the layers
Understand the pages
Add colors
Add pattern
Shape style
Place the objects
Edit the style in Sketchup
Edit the scenes in Sketchup
Start the design of the main page
Add text in the design of the first page
Insert the model in the first page
Create a second page
Create a third page with a general view
Start the presentation of the work
Export the work
Create section plan in Sketchup
Create scenes in Sketchup
Create the design of the first page
Integrate Sketchup model
Add information on the first page
Create a second page
Create a third page
Start the presentation of the work
Prepare the scenes in Sketchup
Create the design of the first page
Add informations on the first page
Create a second page
Create the cover
Create a cover part 1
Create a cover part 2
Layout software for Sketchup
Layout is a software that is installed together with Sketchup Pro and Style Builder software. This software allows you to produce 2D views and make professional layouts from your SketchUp models as well as other files such as images. With this tool you will be able to present your work, make layouts, covers, a folder architecture and more. Indeed when we use Sketchup and we want to introduce work it is not easy to make several types of backup or to fetch external software. That's why Layout was created, to present the models directly with ergonomic software that takes the basics of Sketchup.
Advantages to use Layout in addition to Sketchup
- Creation of complete documents composed of several pages.
- Creation of project coverage
- 2D plan creation
- Cutting scale creation
- Display of several orthogonal or perspective 2D views of the same Sketchup model on the same page
- Ability to insert 2D plan, section, or scale elevation views from multiple SketchUp models
- Added linear and angular dimensions to the scale, without having to go through Sketchup
- Adding text and adding annotation
- Predefined templates of very interesting presentations
- Many drawing tools using the same principle as Sketchup to create designs and pages
- Vector drawing with tools
- Addition of symbols
- Export in image and PDF format
Training course
In this training I will show you how to use Layout for your Sketchup models. We will first see how to use all drawing tools, on the same principle as in Sketchup. How to manage the parameters, understand the layers or the system of the pages. We will see how to start from a model or start from scratch for the creation of a project. I will also show you how to create views in Sketchup and prepare your document for import into Layout. Then we will work through concrete examples. That is to say the realization of brochure, presentation document on architectural projects, garden or object. This will help you understand how the Layout software works.