Learn how scenes, styles, and sections cuts that enable you to link your 3D SketchUp model to LayOut and generate the best looking plans and elevations and annotated views you can get from your model.
- [Voiceover] Hello and welcome to the second installment of SketchUp for Architecture. In this series we are gonna be primarily looking at layout. How the SketchUp model links with layout. We'll have a good look at the tools and the windows and how to add all sorts of different content within layout. Linking a SketchUp file and also drawing directly into layout using some of the drawing tools that we've got across here. So there's limited palette of tools in layout but they are quite flexible.
And, when you link it back to the SketchUp model and you create your scenes and you generate a series of styles that link with the scenes and they all control the section cuts. When you've done all of that, then you've got a very powerful way to represent 2D or 3D information to scale in layout. So let's just flick back over to layout. So what we're gonna do is generate some cover views with 3D information. We've got a location plan which is based on the previous site plan that we generated in the SketchUp for Architecture first series.
Then there'll be a 2D sort of site plan orthographically represented with some shadow settings on it. And then we'll look at creating some floor plans. So we've got lots of different textures in here. And this is a rasterized backdrop and overlaid across the top of that there's a vector line drawing with fill, which has been generated from the SketchUp model. We've got some elevations in there. We'll be adding and creating some trees from various files that I've got.
All of this will be available to the premium subscribers. We'll then be looking at creating some coordinating plans. That sort of thing you can send off to your contractor. So, we've got an awful lot to cover. We have to start with the SketchUp model. Now, I've updated the SketchUp model. I've added a load of scenes across the top and I've added extra styles in the file as well. So we got things like Cut, Cut Hidden, Cut Shaded, No Cut Color by Layer.
So all of these will be explained and how to generated these things and what in fact they are doing. If we just go to our Section Planes view. This shows everything that we've got in the model. Now, I've got no active planes set at the moment but I will be explaining how to do this. This is the trickiest aspect of this. Coordinating your SketchUp model with the styles and the scenes and these active section planes. Okay, that's the bit that confuses most of the students that I deal with.
And then, how to get that to stick when you send it over to layout. Cause lots of things can happen in between. So it's hopefully my plan by the end of the series that you fully understand this process. So, if things do go slightly awry in layout then you can work your way back and unpick what has gone wrong. Okay, so these views here are the slices that we've generated from our section planes. So you can create a group from a slice and I've just moved them to the side and worked on them a bit so I've added fills and I've used these then to overlay the rasterized view in layout.
So, we'll cover an awful lot in this series and I say it is my intention by the end of it, you will be much more familiar with the process of getting that drawing from SketchUp into layout and getting the best looking plans, sections, details, elevations that you can get from your model.
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5/15/2015- Creating a template watermark
- Mixing and saving styles
- Adding and updating scenes
- Aligning and animating scenes
- Adding and animating sections
- Creating views
- Customizing layout preferences and document setup
- Working with references in LayOut
- Building a template
- Working with site plans
- Coordinating plans and elevations
- Adding text, dimensions, and title blocks
- Building a scrapbook
Skill Level Intermediate
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1. Introduction
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Welcome3m 45s
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Using the exercise files1m 32s
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2. All About Styles
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What are styles5m 47s
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Editing style edges5m 3s
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Editing style faces6m 25s
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The background settings3m 7s
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The watermark settings4m 46s
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The model settings5m 21s
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Mixing new styles3m 44s
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Saving styles4m 11s
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3. All About Scenes
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What are scenes?3m 16s
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Adding scenes7m 2s
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Updating scenes7m 53s
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Animating scenes5m 21s
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4. All About Sections
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Adding sections3m 27s
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Animating sections6m 37s
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More than one section4m 49s
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Acoustic ceiling animated3m 54s
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5. Creating the Views for Layout
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Location and site plan views4m 55s
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Front elevation view5m 27s
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Elevations, no landscape3m 42s
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Sections views4m 36s
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3D views5m 40s
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Remaining 3D views3m 2s
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6. Into LayOut
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The LayOut interface3m 21s
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LayOut preferences4m 7s
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Document setup3m 30s
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References5m 15s
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Print setup2m 17s
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7. Creating the Template
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Template start4m 4s
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Inserting the company logo3m 24s
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Finishing the title box4m 36s
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Adding project information5m 35s
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Saving as a template3m 2s
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8. Site Plans
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Loading the templates2m 45s
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Site plans4m 10s
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Scrapbooks3m 26s
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3D views3m 24s
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Annotation4m 39s
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9. Floor Plans and Elevations
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Floor plans4m 38s
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Raster vs. vector5m 17s
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Slices5m 40s
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Slices complete5m 17s
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Moving the camera5m 56s
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Adding elevations3m 50s
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10. Coordinating Plans and Elevations
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Adding pattern fills6m 20s
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Floor zones and tags5m 41s
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Grids and levels5m 13s
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Exploding model objects5m 46s
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11. Annotations
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The point size2m 50s
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Paragraph text5m 54s
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Label text5m 3s
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Dimensions5m 28s
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Adjusting dimensions3m 38s
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Adding blocks5m 5s
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12. The Amazing Scrapbook
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The amazing scrapbook5m 21s
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CAD furniture4m 41s
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Saving as scrapbook page4m 44s
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Lines and arcs5m 5s
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Images and clipping masks4m 45s
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Clipping mask limits5m 22s
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Conclusion
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Next steps4m 35s
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