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  • Connecting SketchUp Scenes to LayOut templates An article from the official SketchUp blog.
  • Construction Drawings in SketchUp Pro/ LayOut with some photos of finished projects.LayOut presentation and construction drawings from Paul Lee at Viewsion Virtual Environments Ltd
  • Construction Documents using SketchUp Pro & LayoutPaul Lee - Step-by-step instructions. SketchUcation book MP25. Fee
  • Construction Documents with SketchUp and LayOut Videos on the YouTube SketchUp Channel, featuring architect Nick Sonder.
  • Construction & Working Drawings - Discussion A notable SketchUcation discussion thread about LayOut.
  • Nick Sonders: Truckee, California architect using SketchUp and LayOut for construction documents.
    • Nick Sonder Workflow for Construction Documentation Video series introducing upcoming book, SketchUp & LayOut for Architecture, by Matt Donley and Nick Sonder.
    • Process 1 - Overview and clean line work. video
    • Process 2 - Generating different drawing types from a single model.
    • Process 3 - Using Scrapbooks in LayOut
    • Process 4 - Detailing
    • Process 5 - LayOut tips
    • Process 6 - SketchUp model tips
  • Quick and dirty poché for sectional viewsAidan Chopra - How to show pochéd section cut in SketchUp and LayOut.
  • Scaling imported raster images in LayOutChris Dizon
  • Section line weight in LayOut forum tips...
  • Segmented Label leader in LayOutGaieus - Simply use the line tool to 'add' segments to the end of a Label leader.
  • SketchUp + LayOut Overview (my process)Mike Beganyi - Timber frame design video.


  • Why is it so hard to draw a simple electric symbol in Layout Download some electric symbols.
  • My LayOut Scrapbook for Architectural DrawingsKristoff Rand(Join SketchUcation for free to download.)



It's not easy to find, but here's how you can control the length of the extension overrun (from the SketchUp developers):
  1. With the Select tool, double-click on the dimension to enter the dimension 'manipulator'.
  2. Select one of the extension lines.
  3. In the Shape Style panel, click on the End Arrow dropdown, and select a smaller point size. The extension's overrun should get smaller.
  4. Select the other extension line.
  5. Repeat step 3.
To create dimensions like this every time you use the dimension tool:
  1. Pick the Style tool.
  2. Click on the dimension you just modified. This will sample the dimension's style.
  3. Pick the Dimension tool and create a dimension. It will use the sampled dimension style.
It's possible to change the dimension line style so it's different from the extension lines:
  1. With the Select tool, double-click on the dimension to enter the dimension 'manipulator'.
  2. Select one of the extension lines.
  3. In the Shape Style panel, choose a new stroke color, dashed pattern, etc. The extension line will show the new settings.
  4. With the extension line still selected, go to Edit -> Copy Style.
  5. Select the other extension line.
  6. Edit -> Paste Style. The two extension lines should match now.
To create dimensions like this every time you use the dimension tool:
  1. Pick the Style tool.
  2. Click on the dimension you just modified. This will sample the dimension's style.
  3. Pick the Dimension tool and create a dimension. It will use the sampled dimension style.

The picture frame cannot be used for cropping, LayOut is a bit limited that way. But there is a way to do it: draw a rectangle (or any shape) to define your cropped area over the image, select that and the image you want to crop, right-click and select 'Create clipping mask' from the context menu. SketchUp Sage Anssi


Tip2: To get proper dimensioning on scaled pages, set the scale in two places in LayOut:
  1. To change the dimension scale, select the dimension tool, open the Dimension Style panel, and set the scale nest to the 'Auto Scale' button.
  2. To change the SketchUp scale, select the skp model, open the SketchUp Model panel, and set the scale next to the 'Ortho' button.
  3. More dimensioning tips from MasterSketchUp author, Matt Donley.

Tip3: Many of the plugins listed here on the Sage's CAD page, developed to replicate the 'CAD' look, can be very helpful in setting up SketchUp Scenes for LayOut export.

Hola amigos quiero compartir con ustedes mi ultimo pack de scrapbook para layout de sketchup, espero les sea de gran ayuda! Solo quisiera pedirles que si lo. SketchUp & LayOut for Architecture was co-written by Nick Sonder and Matt Donley. Nick is a leading architect who made the switch from AutoCAD to SketchUp & LayOut over 10 years ago. He has pioneered many techniques and styles in order to refine the entire design process.

The SketchUp Pro comes with Layout, a really amazing tool to enhance the model to line alterations. For an amateur architect layout produces working drawing plans, elevations with Title Blocks, annotation and much more right from within the SketchUp interface. The drawings produced can be to scale accurate presentation and ready to reveal to the client.

What is Sonder Detail Scrapbooks?

Sonder Detail ScrapBooks is a library of 480 Annotated images. These Fully customizable details help you to drag and drop in the layout document to quickly produce a detail sheet for your designing project.


Implementing this library can significantly speed up the workflow of the design project. Sonder details scrapbook enables the user to model at a much higher level of Detail.

First you need to Buy Sonder Detail Scrapbooks Here

Steps to be followed after Installing Sonder details ScrapBook in PC

First one needs to install the Sonder Details Library which is very easy. Then follow the steps mentioned below:

  1. Unzip SonderDetailScrapbook.zip to a location in your computer
  2. The next step is to open the Layout
  3. Then just go to edit and go to preferences
  4. Click on the folders and then click on the Plus Sign on the Scrapbook to select the folder where the SonderDetailScrapbook.zip was unzipped
  5. Next one has to click OK.

The scrapbooks are now installed and are accessible in any LayOut document from the Scrapbooks panel.

Drag and Drop Details

To drag and Drop details into any LayOut document just follow the simple steps

  1. Expand the Scrap Book Panel and Resize the scrapbook panel in order to fill the white space.
  2. Choose a scrapbook from the Dropdown Menu
  3. The Sonder Detail Scrapbooks are all prefixed with SD- for easy identification.
  4. The Next step is to search and find the detail and then insert into the specified document, activate the layer you’d like to place the detail on
  5. The next step is to tap the Spacebar to activate the Select tool, then click and drag one of the details onto the page.

Editing A detailed Document

  1. Once the detail is placed in the document, the designer can edit the labels, the viewport, and even the SketchUp model itself.
  2. Each Viewport has a Sketchup Model embedded to it, so the user can customize it as per his/her wishes.
  3. From the scrapbook, once the details are inserted, the viewport is all contained in the group.
  4. If you’d like to ungroup the detail, you can right-click > Ungroup. Otherwise, just double-click on the group to open it for editing.

Labels

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The function of labels is to display the name of the object they are anchored to.


One needs to follow the steps mentioned below to label the details.

  1. One can manually overwrite label text by double-clicking on the text and typing.
  2. Click escape to commit the changes.
  3. Move the label anchor point by double-clicking on the leader line, then dragging the anchor point to a new location.
  4. When the anchor point is moved, one needs to establish the auto text, if one wants to read the name of the object.
  5. Double Click on the label text, click on the drop-down arrow, select the entity that needs to be displayed in the label.

ViewPort

The viewport will already be configured and assigned to an appropriate scene for the detail.

To toggle the visibility of various objects in the viewport by selecting the viewport, then going to the SketchUp Model panel. In the Tags subpanel, toggle the visibility of various tags to explore different configurations.

To customize the model, right-click on the viewport and select Open with SketchUp. Then all the user have to do is to save the file.

Thus, we can see with the help of these functionalities of SketchUp, the design details of the layout can be easily done.

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Once the user install the Scrapbook ,one can navigate through the scrapbook, that the user wants to explore and then can tab through each page with the help of the side buttons.

While Using the scrapbook, one must ensure these important points to be kept in mind while working with layout.

Symbols
  • In Scrapbook smaller sheets work better. Normally scrapbooks come with a layout that is 6 Inches square.
  • The best part of using scrapbook is that it has multiple pages. The first page of the document becomes the cover page. Each page has multiple details on it. Once the details are selected they can be easily dragged and dropped in. So working with Sonders Details Scrapbook is very easy.
  • Moreover, all of the labels are in detail and numbered accurately.
  • One must pay attention to the page names. To change the page names one needs to go to Auto Text, which is prefix auto text, and then go to Page set.

Most configuration will already have a scene configured and a detailed template crafted in ScrapBook so that one can just drag and drop the details,

The special feature of Sonder Details Scrapbook is the ability to modify the models and various objects and produce a realistic visual picture.

Most hardcore LayOut users make their own scrapbooks of scale figures, cars, trees, drafting symbols, typography — anything they need to use again and again.

Sonder Detail Scrapbooks Review by MasterSketchup

Conclusion

When a architect finds that there is not enough details in the model itself, that is where Sonder details scrapbook comes into the picture. It helps us in producing beautiful details in our scrapbook. Once the user purchases the Sonder detail scrapbook library, one will have numerous example templates. It helps to enable the layout of various details. Sonder detail scrapbook acts like a checklist.

The Most unique feature of Layout 2020 is the ability to toggle Tag Visibility. One can also update the base library and can take reference to that particular library, whenever the designer wants to enhance it with the new modifications.

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The secondary benefit to using this detail library is how lightweight the project model becomes by removing unnecessary details from the model.

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Thus the model becomes very easy to work with and thus makes it fast to implement design ideas.