SketchUp Level 3 - Using LayOut for Model Presentation Course Outline
Overview
This 2-day class provides an overview of all of the essential skills needed to use LayOut, the model presentation tool that is included with SketchUp Pro. LayOut and SketchUp Pro work together. Make some preliminary settings in SketchUp, then insert your model into LayOut and create determine how you want to present your model. When you make changes in the model, the presentation details are automatically updated. The presentation output can be blueprints, event layouts, or even interior design board layouts. In this class you will learn how to share your 3D model with the world using LayOut!
Who Should Attend
This is for individuals who need to get present 3D SketchUp models. This course is intended for participants with little or no 3-dimensional drawing or SketchUp experience, but who want to create 3-dimensional models using SketchUp for an interior design workflow.
Hardware Platform
All of our SketchUp courses are taught on the Windows platform. However, because SketchUp on the Mac is very similar to the PC implementation, we welcome Mac users. Mac users have been able to take our SketchUp training without issues. Note: we recommend that individuals taking our class from their home or office connect to the "student" computer using a PC. A Mac can be used to connect to the "meeting" component of the class. To see the minor differences between SketchUp on the PC and Mac, please review this video prior to your training:
Mac SketchUp vs. Windows SketchUp
Prerequisites
A general working knowledge and familiarity with SketchUp is required before taking this class. No prior experience with LayOut is necessary.
Course Outline
Part 1: Preparing Your Model For LayOut
Planning
Levels of Detail
Types of Models
Multi-Purpose Models
Organization
Groups & Components
SketchUp Layers
Types of Layers
Objects on Multiple Layers
Workflow Overview
SketchUp
LayOut
Objects to Draw in Layout
Creating Scenes
Creating a New Scene
Updating a Scene
Navigating Scenes
Advanced Scenes for LayOut
Visible Objects
Foreground Depth
Background Depth
Camera Perspective & Settings
Styles
Scene Anatomy
Visualizing Scene Properties
Scene Properties
Selective Memory
SketchUp Styles
Edge Settings
Face Settings
Background Settings
Watermark Settings
Modeling Settings
Mix
Save Custom Styles in Model
Save Custom Styles on Computer
Part 2: LayOut Documents
User Interface
The Toolbar
Tray Panels
Document Area
Layout Elements
Moving, Rotating & Scaling Elements
Layout Inference System
Editing Elements
Opening a New File
Create a New file from a Template
Pages
Layers
Editing Titleblock Elements
Insert SketchUp Models--Part A
Setting the Scene
Positioning the viewport
Sizing the Viewport
Paper Space vs. Model Space
Ortho and Perspective Viewports
Scaling Perspective Viewports
Insert SketchUp Models--Part B
Scaling Orthogonal Viewports
Raster, Vector & Hybrid
Controlling Line Weight
Update SketchUp Models
Clipping Mask
Adding Dimensions
Creating a Dimension Line
Editing Dimensions
Dimension Scale
Unit of Measurement & Precision
Dimension Text Placement
Exploding Dimensions
Dimension Shape and Text Style
Advanced Dimensions
Non-Parallel Dimensions
Adjusting Dimension Leaders
Quick Dimension Offsets
Angular Dimensions
Perspective Viewports
Annotations
Text Box
Auto-Text
Text with Leader
Smart Labels
Patterns/Hatching
Exploding Viewports
Scrapbooks
Scrapbook Elements
Scrapbook Sampling
Custom Scrapbooks
Printing/Presentation
Printing
Exporting PDF
Creating a Presentation
View outline in Word
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