Adding detail to a LayOut document
Placing a 2D version of a SketchUp model onto a page is great, but the real benefit of what can be done with LayOut is in the detailed information you can quickly add to your drawings. These details may be added using the tools and panels in LayOut and include things such as dimensions, text, labels, callouts, or even 2D entourage. The majority of this chapter will cover the process of adding additional information to our LayOut document. Before that, though, let’s take a quick run through the UI.
LayOut’s UI is different from SketchUp (which makes sense as it serves a different purpose) but similar enough that you should not have too hard a time navigating the commands. Just like SketchUp, there is a toolbar that houses all of the commands and can be customized (unlike SketchUp, there is only one toolbar, and it is locked into place). Just like SketchUp, there are a series of panels that display information and allow you to organize...
