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Complete SketchUp Guide To Layout: Creating Quality Drawing Sets With SketchUp

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Complete SketchUp Guide To Layout: Creating Quality Drawing Sets With SketchUp

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About Complete SketchUp Guide To Layout: Creating Quality Drawing Sets With SketchUp

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Example Layout Drawing Set

Preparing The SketchUp Model For Layout Import

Concepts For Layout

Chapter 2 - Layout Basics: Layout Templates

The Layout Interface

Layout Canvas and Navigation

The Layout Toolbar

Chapter 3: Layout Drawing - SketchUp Model Import

Scaled Drawing In Layout

Layout Annotations and Dimensions

Layout Scrapbook Libraries

Customizing The Ttitleblock

Updating The Drawing Set

Setting Project Settings

Chapter 4: Elevations & Drawing Sets

Adding Sections

Reviewing The Drawing Set

Adding Tables and A Drawing Index

Chapter 5: Section Details & Layout Geometry

Adding A Wall Section

Adding Section Components

Adding Section Structure

Adding A Beam

Refining Roof Structure

Adding Break Lines

Completing The Roof Structure

Refining The Curtain Wall Detail

Completing The Wall Section

Chapter 6: Preparing The Section Detail

Refining The Section Detail

Annotating The Details

Chapter 7: Exporting The PDF

Exporting CAD

Conclusion

What You Will Learn?

  • The Complete SketchUp Guide To Layout teaches you how to create organized drawing sets for your SketchUp projects directly from SketchUp with Layout..
  • Getting quality output from SketchUp often requires exporting lots of files back and forth from SketchUp and a third party program. However, SketchUp has created a robust document editor to manage drawing sets that integrates directly with SketchUp -- SketchUp Layout..
  • This introductory course helps you understand what Layout is, and it gives you the workflows and techniques that can save you headaches and time documenting your project in neatly defined and accurate plans, sections, elevations, and perspectives of all sorts. Pretty much, any view you can make in SketchUp, can be setup in Layout and curated to the look you desire..
  • What you learn:.
  • - How to setup title blocks and templates in Layout.
  • - How to import and update your drawing set with SketchUp models.
  • - How to develop annotated and dimensioned plans, sections and elevations.
  • - How to develop building sections, wall sections and scaled details for your project.
  • - How to export layout projects into PDF and CAD formats.
  • - How to create your own scrapbook libraries of annotations and details.
  • At the end of this course, you will be ready to document your SketchUp projects beyond concept models, to buildable schematics for any phase..
  • If you’re ready to develop your documents better from SketchUp, then see you in my class..