Characteristics of Layout

• Automatic Updating

All pages in Layout are live linked to your SketchUp model, so if you make a change, your documents update as well.

• Vector Drawing Tools

Vector Drawing Tools got to add notes, details, or mark-ups. Add them using Layout’s Vector Drawing Tools.

• Print and Export

It prints and exports in high resolution documents.

• Annotate and Explain

Layout allows you to feature annotations, callouts, line weights, and more to your models.

I wanted to talk about a couple different ways you can display details in your layout documents.

Option 1

The primary way is clearly the simplest simply create a 3D view of your detail, then import that viewport into Layout (Detail Credit – Metal Coping Detail by International Masonry Institute). One thing to note if you do this is that you can only set it to a scale if you turn your perspective view off. These details can actually be very helpful for contractors as they show/indicate in a 3D space how the assembly actually looks.

Option 2

Model your detail in SketchUp, then create a 2D view and import it into Layout. This works in a very similar manner to if you were to make a building elevation. Simply create your view, then save and make a workspace together with your scene.

Option 3

Draw your details directly in the Layout. I find this feature to be a touch clunky – I’m not an enormous fan of the way things inference in Layout, but you can directly draw within a model in layout with the “Make Scaled Drawing” option. Simply select your scale and start drawing.

Option 4

You will also adjust the details that you simply get out of SketchUp by drawing over them to permit patterns, hatching, and other information.

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