You're reading from Taking SketchUp Pro to the Next Level Go beyond the basics and develop custom 3D modeling workflows to become a SketchUp ninja

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803242699

Length 444 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

SketchUp

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Aaron Dietzen aka 'The SketchUp Guy'

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting More Out of Native Tools

2. Chapter 1: Reviewing the Basics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Organizing Your 3D Model

4. Chapter 3: Modifying Native Commands

5. Chapter 4: Taking Inferencing to the Next Level

6. Chapter 5: Creating Beautiful Custom Materials

7. Part 2: Customizing SketchUp and Making It Your Own

8. Chapter 6: Knowing What You Need Out of SketchUp

9. Chapter 7: Creating Custom Shortcuts

10. Chapter 8: Customizing Your User Interface

11. Chapter 9: Taking Advantage of Templates

12. Chapter 10: Hardware to Make You a More Efficient Modeler

13. Part 3: Extending SketchUp’s Capabilities for Modeling

14. Chapter 11: What Are Extensions?

15. Chapter 12: Using 3D Warehouse and Extension Warehouse

16. Chapter 13: Must-Have Extensions for Any Workflow

17. Chapter 14: Introduction to LayOut

18. Chapter 15: Leveraging the SketchUp Ecosystem

19. Index

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Preparing a SketchUp model for LayOut

While you could, in theory, start from scratch and just draw shapes right in LayOut, it was designed to work from an existing SketchUp model. While any SketchUp model can be inserted into a LayOut document, it will make generating documents much easier if you prepare your SketchUp model for LayOut. This does not have to be a complicated process and will look a little different for everyone, but we can run through a few things you can do in SketchUp that will save you time and energy once you get into LayOut.

Throughout this chapter, we will use the Taking SketchUp Pro to the Next Level – Chapter 14.skp SketchUp file to generate a LayOut document. Before we start looking at LayOut, let’s take a look at this file, which has been prepared to generate output, and see the sort of work you may want to do when getting a SketchUp file ready to generate documentation using LayOut.

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