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Introduction to linking SketchUp with LayOut

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Introduction to linking SketchUp with LayOut

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- [Instructor] Chapter 5 01 introduction to linking scenes with LayOut. Okay, this is quite an important thing that we need to cover here and it's all about the links between SketchUp and LayOut. Okay, so I clicked on this thing here which is a SketchUp file, linked into LayOut. And if I look at my SketchUp model window, then I've got Scene, Roof Pan Sketchy. Okay, which is what this one is. When we link something from SketchUp to LayOut, it brings in all the scenes that we've created. We've always got the last saved SketchUp view. And, we've also got the styles that we created with SketchUp. Okay, so quite a useful thing. Because these views were created using the parallel camera projection, then they come in as orthographic views and that means that we can scale them. So it's quite a handy little feature, very handy in fact. Other things that we can link, images, so I've got a series of images here. And then we've got text and tables as we already know we can link. Things like 2D…

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