Complete SketchUp Guide To Layout: Creating Quality Drawing Sets With SketchUp

1. Course Trailer Skillshare: Sketchup is a great modeler. But what about ticking the project to the later phases of development and documentation? Sketchup has that covered with their layout app. And I'm here to show you how to use it. Hi, I'm Brenda and I'll be your instructor for this complete guide to working with SketchUp layout. In this course, I hope you get to know the workflow for taking your SketchUp models and views into a simplified interface where you can export parametrically updated plans, sections, and perspectives into full drawing sets. This course is for beginners in SketchUp layout. If you are new to SketchUp, check my instructor profile, other courses in SketchUp. I'm a licensed architect and designer with experience and sketch up more than 15 years. And I love bringing the best of industry methods or techniques to my students at all levels. And this class activity, you will develop a simple set and layout to sharpen your skills creating annotated drawings sets. At the end of this course, you'll be equipped to fully develop a project drawing set and layout. If you're ready to develop your project documentation, your sketch of projects with layout. To let go. 2. Example Layout Drawing Set: So this is a drawing made in layout. And you should see layout just saying what it does, as opposed to me exporting all these from SketchUp. Went ahead and just organize. These are inlay at nasa. Go to Layout. You see how you can set this up for project. And even right here, you can do your section, all your views you would do in your sketch up and also some new ones. They can just be detailing directly from layouts. So these are some things that we'll look at how you can develop. Because great tool. And you use that at any level of your project. 3. Preparing The SketchUp Model For Layout Import: The first thing we're going to do in this project is we're going to process this SketchUp file so that we can get information that will go into layer as we go to Layout and facial, understand what we're doing. I'll explain the model just a little bit. To the left is a two plans that were made. Little more development from this idea. And what I've decided to do is really just use these instead of a section from this model as I've actually changed some of the design. But that's also another great part of the whole process. Essentially, you can be developing the plan and elevation separately. So let's start making views. The first few I will do is the plan view. And I want to make sure that we are in proper parallel projection mode. And the idea is, the center that you have here is going to be the center you are going to have. And layout. Layout will be importing Lake View and you must use the view. So you can just simply go in. You don't save these scenes. Like I could call this plans. Then I could also get a larger one. And you don't have to worry about scale at all. One thing you would want to worry about, however, is the style, but we're going to actually update that after. We're going to add one when I call this site. Or you put site plan. And the thing is, there's a lot of things you can change in layout. So what I'm gonna do is I could actually just put a tray. I just want to show to get a load of information here. So I'm going to come back and my styles, I really want to choose a style. It's just hidden line. We have a couple of these that are just hidden line. Something like this is very useful for me to update this one. Now actually it will come here, do the same. They don't need any of the model. I just want to, we want to see the vector of what's going on. Then that's by two in this way. So now we're going to actually add a section. And this section is going to be used for a shadow study. And I'll just say plan section. This of course, can be also used if you do want to get a direct section from your model. We will return back to mode. Then I'll zoom in. Again. The scale is not super significant. Add a drawing and it's going to be what's going to be a new style because it will occlude the section. And I'll say this much shadow plane. Just make sure I'm clicking the right part. Shadow study plan. And then go back to Mother plans. Just be looking at those. Don't worry about the alignment. It won't matter for this side. And those are all fine. Now I'm going to get a front burner for elevation. Again, this is a hidden line that's appropriate way to see this for me. I'll make one change is I want to see the profiles because of my columns. This is my elevation. At this, I'm going to save it as a new style. Then one thing we wanna do is get a perspective that will be our cover image. So I'm going to use something I'm going to test out which side will work the best. And essentially just the nature of this project. This is a new building and this is the existing. And I'm just going to use a simple style from the competition where and I'll make sure that I see shadows. And I will also turn off this watercolor under. They really want to create it as a new style. But I'm going to save this now as renamed it front perspective. Okay, so I can just press Enter to finish that. What I can do for sure as well. It's just makes sure that things like the section also is not visible. And get my front perspective here. Now, the final elements that we're using for this model, and it's really going to be more like the hidden line style. So I'm going to both be changing the style. And you'll see of course, the importance of this when we go in. And don't worry about the duplicate cells. Just worry about the ones that you selected. You started in the project file, you only see the basic ones. I will clean it up for you. And what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to go ahead and add a section for my section of the building. Where that's gonna be is gonna be straight through here. Exact location is not as critical, but you see some of the details for this building here. And what I'll do is go to the side. And this is where I'll return to two-point perspective. Definitely make sure it's in the right mode, no shadows. Parallel projection. Zoom in. And I'll make sure also that I see format, my edge Tau, my profiles. And I'm going to save this as building section. And you can save it as a new style. Again, I'm just concerned about what I will see. You can always go back and you're saying multiple view ports have the same. I'm going to call this building section. And now I'm just going to look at what all I have. And you also can, of course do that. If you click on these scenes tab, it'll populate these thumbnails. You see the floor plans, front elevation, the front perspective, building section, the shadows, so the plan and the site plan, those all are looking pretty good. So this model is ready to be taking into the project for layout. And the final thing, we're just going to save this project. And this is going to be our modern sketch of building important. And you don't even have the name and import. This could be the mom that people are working in. I'm just doing this for class purposes. 4. Concepts For Layout: It's really important for SketchUp layout that you have a good set of basics and principles to figure out what you're gonna do. So you can be organized and get the best results. So I've created here a little bit of a process and this what I call the modeling documentation process. Essentially, you start your project with planned elevations, a 3D drawing in 3D model. The idea is you're going to be exporting that, but it really doesn't really need to be that organized. However, when you start going from your initial modeling to your schematic documentation, it's really important to have things like concept building sections, detailed plans, detail elevations. And that's where it really gets useful to have something like layout. Though you could start your layout from the beginning, just looking at the project. You could always just export, maybe like a little visual, even show the client the actual model. But with the schematic documentation and even the advanced documentation, it's really important to have a lot of detail. They control over your drawing so it can be regularized. And the fact is layout makes it easy. You don't have to go into another project or program because layout has a lot of these functionalities. So let's talk about some of those principles that will help you get success when using layout. Here these concepts, and again, these are now some rules to follow, but you also can add your own is just trying to get a quality basis for how to you use the program so you can be successful with it. First, well developed good templates and libraries. When a model with documentation in mind, you want a balloon simple sets before editing. You also want to utilize list for operating. Do you want to mind integration and updates for collaboration? And finally, you want to employ quality review and clean up your sets. Those are two that really go together. Let's go into each of these concepts. It's important to develop good templates in libraries. So the first thing, things like title blocks and other libraries are actually in the program. So it's actually not that far off. The idea is that you can also develop your own, you can also develop your own details. We'll go into what library option that are in layouts that you can use for this project. You also can be developing your own plan symbols, layout has a lot of those and we'll go into that. You also have this ability to keep a particular brand, font or skills, different ways that things work together for your drawings, that you can already be placed into your drawings. But these are really important ways that you can make the most out of layout to we want to model and with documentation in mind. But essentially, you're going to be planning out your views. Even when you're modeling, you say, Hey, how can I show this afterwards? Thinking about how can I get a section to show what's happening inside? How can I layer the sections? How can a layer that affirmations people get the information in the message? Then how can I work with styles? So this is going to help you with any program. The idea is, you know, you wanna get some output at some point, so model better. Now it's really important to balloon simple sets before editing. And what that means is if you have like some elevations of detail, elevations, wall section, building section, etcetera, you already know there's a set of drawings that you want before even starting. You can even create a list of drawings even before starting. So this is gonna be important for you. It also will help you figure out things like this phase is we're dealing with this part of the project. So you can be ballooning that very simply. That's just an outline. You can of course have your standard annotations. For instance, if you're adding a certain level of detail, you don't already have it there, including your scales, et cetera, and your Legends. It's really, really important to utilize list for operating. This helps you to make sure you're on track with your project. This works for both model and annotation list. Someone could be working on the model while you're working on the annotation in layout. So there's a lot that could be going on and a lot of productivity to be gained. It's important to have a list for thinking about your styles of fonts. How is that drawing being placed into a standardized format? It's gonna be really helpful to make a list to help that be organized. And also, how can you be completing the annotations? Like the ideas, you balloon it out. You have your list and then it's going to be filled out by you and your team. So the idea is that lists are going to hope things get done. And also at the end, you'll be focusing on what systems are selected. For instance, if you're working with an engineer or Other consultants, they could be organizing things and you can managing the whole thing from layout. Now it's very important to be mining the integration and updates of collaboration. Just like in the last concept, I talked about the list. It's important to think about that for collaboration for sure, because working with many people, which layout can help you do, as well as SketchUp. It requires you to have a very good integration mindset. Okay? So it needs to be clear what is the central model. You can actually have several models. And the idea is you can actually have several layout models as well. So you'll be working with those. You can also have those working in tandem. So having a clear communication on how those are gonna be worked on, it's gonna be really important. It's also important to say if you're going to be compiling the final files as one layout file, which might not be recommended. But if you could be making PDFs and joining them all together, then that's gonna give you a lot of good results. Now this also is important. Getting towards the end of the project is employee the quality review. Okay? So that means that just like those other lists for things getting done, you'll be reviewing that things were done. So it's both and or situation. I'm going to tell you what's gonna be done and then uncheck that it's done. This will keep you having a very quality process. Also having a standard set. For instance, you're using the same types of drawings for communicating. This little step will make you much more efficient. Make layout be effective for you. That's one of my professional workflows for you. Finally, we want to be looking at how to clean up your sets during and after and before your process. Essentially, just like any model, neatness is something that has to be worked toward because there's a lot of messiness to figure out a design. But making it neat is a step that you need to take so that you will have a project that's workable from beginning to end. It also is important to be concerned about the viewports. How is your integration? When you see your drawing and your model from your schedule model and layout. And we're going to talk about how you get all those organized. And finally, it's very important to make sure that you have the clear phase for the presentation. So essentially it's really just being a managed process of creating this documentation set. It's a great tool for SketchUp because the idea is it's not just like Sketch and having a bunch of little views for this same, this same. It's actually very much a great way to document your project. So you will need to be focused on having a clean and if you keep a good standard way of working with your projects, it's gonna be very effective for you. So let's go through those again, documentation concepts to get the most out of layout. You want to develop good templates and libraries. You want to model with documentation in mind. You want to balloon simple set before editing. You want to utilize list for operating. You want to mine integration and updates for collaboration. Finally, you want to employ quality review and clean up your sets. This is a process that I think you really should be considering all of these. You're going to add some for sure. But the idea is layout provides a lot of power and a good system to go with that. It's going to get you very far. 5. Chapter 2 - Layout Basics: Layout Templates: So this is the basic interface for layout. You have layout, it has a open dashboard where you get to choose a document or you can choose a previous one. You have the ability to also look at some tutorials and then login to your account. What we're gonna do is just look at a basic type of template to do like a, actually A3. The issue is when you just click on a normal template, you don't have anything like a title block and thing. It's all scratch. Which is great. But sometimes if you want to go in and come in and make a template, you actually from, from the inside. Let's suppose when you start your option, choose maybe a storyboard or you can choose. This is another way to, if you use like animation, Let's preview the animation. But if you go back in here, we've got a title block. We see something that maybe more from a construction project. You have your different options for more advanced title blogs are simple title blocks. Maybe your concept design phase, where to go to A3 landscape. And what we're gonna do here is just take a look at some of the interface for the program as we look at even this title block. 6. The Layout Interface: The first thing I notice is the typical farm menu structure. Family structure was you get the option to open the open file, create new and scrapbooks. We'll talk about that later. That's where you have a little libraries. You can drag, drag, drag and drop into the file. Yeah, the ability to import your sketch of projects. You can export them here as well, and you also can print and export your file. You can of course, edit anything in the fall. You know your copy, you paste, and create clipping mask. You also can of course, work on different zooming into a grid. You can deal with groups and editing and that sort of way. So percent directly from layout. You create your texts and all sorts of texts options. We'll look at that in the toolbar next. And you can also arrange. Arrange is very important for women's your files. You have the ability to make geometry and tax. It's a little different from SketchUp, but it's also something that you can just work with there. You can add pages and delete, duplicate, etc, and pages. We'll get into that. And then also do your window options, choose what things to show and also your help. So that's just the basic menu. 7. Layout Canvas and Navigation: Let's look at the icon commands here for layout. You see of course, the current canvas that is showing the template. You use your middle mouse button you're scrolling for zooming. Hold down your mouse button, middle mouse button to pan. You can of course have multiple projects. Open the switch back and forth between those. Then you have your basic toolbar icons. Talk about editing, drawing. You can offset text, label dimensions. You'd also put tables and then there's like different things for work with some of the geometry here because the jump to action doesn't work in the same sticky way that scattered does. You can also open the presentation and different ways of working with your pages. At the bottom and sort of the options. Dialog here, you'll get instructions from your commands that you're pressing. You also have if its measurement or scaling. You can choose the scale of the drawing here. And so that's how you really sort of patrol your canvas. 8. The Layout Toolbar: To you right now you have your trays. Close all these, we can just start from scratch. So essentially the top of the tray change the order that the top, that's sort of the Default tray. Here's your colors. You can choose different colors for if you're working on a particular element. You can choose. If you're working with a shape, you choose to fill the shape. For instance, if I was drawing a rectangle as opposed to scatter boards, this line is actually makes it a little bit like a group. You can choose if you have a fill, no fill, you can choose them as a pattern or no pattern. Also choose a as a shook or no stroke. So that's just the outside line. You can choose how thick that will be. Excusable has dashes as opposed to sketch up where pretty much as set by the layer. Now, the tag. Now you get to choose this sort of how this will operate. And they also in terms of your drawing like an arrow, like a standard line, can have it as a pointer lines. And so that's working with your shapes. You also can deal with talking about your patterns. If I wanted to put this the pattern, you get the choice of loading your patterns already. For instance, if I wanted to come in here and say aluminum, I would just select that they're in. So this sort of does the same function is right here. So it's useful. You can also choose a rotation or scale. Make that larger. You choose a rotation for seven. It has quite a lot of effects for working with shapes right here. So shape and pattern help you deal with that. 9. Chapter 3: Layout Drawing - SketchUp Model Import: What we'll do when we're working with SketchUp model is I'm just going to go ahead and just start importing. And now, of course, included in your project information, you will go through and choose. What I've made here is a modern scattered building. And it's very simple. When you load a project, you will be able to view any view from that project. So right now, I'm just slowly in the last view that was focused there. Did you pull this down? What you have is the ability to choose a scene. And I have a scene for a plan. That's just me in SketchUp choosing to use a orthographic view. And this is down and I just chose a style. And then you can just open it here. And you also can change all the things that you can change the line scale, go really small or really big. However, a lot of this is actually selected from my style. We're just going to go back to point to. You can choose if it's raster or vector. And so those of course behave differently. So be mindful that the styles will affect a lot of that. Style is a very rasterized. It will avoid the pixelation. If you avoid the raster, then you also can, as opposed to just using that viewport, you can also just directly decide which view you want. For instance, if you want to use a bottom, front, left, right, etc. You also can preserve the scale and resize useful options like you have with the style. Just in SketchUp, then almost create a view as you can choose your different tags. If you don't want to show something, you want to show it. Right now I'm actually just showing a 2D plan. So there's not many tags really been selected. Half here. You can also change the style here. There's a lot of customization. You're also going to do your effects like shadows. This being a 2D Giant, doesn't really matter. The issue. Sometime people will work on a plan and take a section to do this. I'll go ahead and show both of those. And I'm going to actually just talk about pages as quickly skipping that just slightly. I'm adding pages really simple. Just click here and the page will follow the same template right here. Of course I've added my sketch up information from a model. I didn't set a scale yet. Go ahead and set that scale at one-quarter inch. And you see it's a little bit larger. So I'm going to go ahead and open the large and you can see it's pretty simple to sort of grow that little bigger. And I'm not really limited to the crop from the original SketchUp model. But now I have organized this and all I do, I don't want to move it anymore. Second lock-in that will stop it from updating or rotating, for instance. Because sometimes people, when you double-click on it, you actually can change that 3D view. So that's one of the challenges. It's like you don't want to, you know, you want to save guard from clicking that. You would just go ahead and lock the view. So that's how you get a SketchUp. I'm drawing it. So right now we're looking at just looking at a 2D drawing. But if you want to bring in that, again, you of course can just copy and paste or you can also just insert. It, will just do the same thing here. Right here. The idea is we are just really looking at it. We can just come out from the model and ideas. It's a little harder with choosing the view and where. Where are you going to use sandstone SketchUp items change to orthographic view. So that is very useful. You also can of course choose the style. So the concept is, I created a technical view which is great for me like when using particular methods. So this is another way of just customizing it and it's also useful just to do it in SketchUp so you don't have to have as much of a challenge. And I can always just come back and put 1 eighth inch. I was trying to make a site drawing. That's the putting it in here. And I can also from my page, I can just duplicate some time. So one thing I want to hear saying, how about resetting this, this view. And we set the camera so it's not changing there. And I'm just interested in looking at a plan section I created. And I just call this all level one. So one thing here I've done, I've added shadows, done a lot of things already set up. As you can see the way that SketchUp sort of did this. It's not as forgiving. It's more of like a rough drawing and I can of course turn off the shadow. Again, trying to avoid too much of editing. Rotating agritourism. Lock it. But one thing I wanna do is make sure that I turn off shadows if I don't want those shadows. And as you can see, this is one reason why I would probably want to start drawing inside instead of drawing that in SketchUp for some basic elements as opposed to just putting everything. So, alright, so that was just getting those basic things in. Now, let's look at some of the things you do. If you're maybe trying to get to adding texts and all that. But we want to look at what would happen if we're now trying to look at drawing or adding those mentioned in text. 10. Scaled Drawing In Layout: We're going to start with scale drawing. And the idea for that is if we go to that inside page and now we want to start drawing like some elements. I can just click on Make scale drawing. This drawing is not gonna be in your sketch of models. This can be in the file. For instance, I wanted to make something at this architectural scale of one-quarter inch that the sides currently two. If I want to add maybe a three foot by three foot, you can see that it's already scaled. Drawing here. That's great. We'll go over some of the joint function now. I just offset that here. Now with our three-by-three box, select to these ash can make into a group. Now this is where we of course would be looking at what we can do when having, we want to make that a pattern. For instance, if I wanted to make it brick, I'm actually not using layers too much, but, you know, you can always make a layer for your geometry here. So I can just like this then this geometry, furniture and ideas, it's not on the current layer yet. And you double-click when you are, I'm still in scale join. You double-click if you're working on that. So you can just right-click and you have option to change that layer right here. And if I have two of these, I can always just drag press Control and that will duplicate it. And I want to align these. I can just click on a line and I could say horizontally that just matches them up. And so then we have also from this drop-down menu where we have the ability to center this on the page. So I wonder if there are horizontally. Let's way of getting a center for an item. They may also have the option of flipping, though it's not going to affect it right here. She would flip an object. You can flip it this way or you can flip it left to right or top down. And again, you can also just edit the path where you can start Louis all the points. And that's also something you can achieve by double-clicking. You can both move the line are the points. So when you're working on your lines in geometry, it's really useful. Things you can make with the lines you also freehand align definitely will make it a little smoother. I'm still in scale drawing. So the idea is now get at something like dimensions. I have options changing this dimension, but just generally, it's going to be measuring in my scale what I could always do, my dimensions. It has options I can choose about the leaders, choose the how the text will be shown, and also can choose how I be scaling. It's going to use this current scale that makes sense. I want to turn into architectural. And that's going to set up my current dimension style and just click them as it again. And just set that up right here. And so it gives you a lot options or how that's gonna be visually. Everything within the scale drawing even when you close the sale drawing. Press Escape. I draw that to mention. Again, the mentioned will respond to that particular joint. Now if you just draw for something in the model, it also is a wise, but if you just draw a line outside of the scaled world, just in your regular layout model. And you just click through dimensions. It's actually just going to measure, you can say in paper space, the cell. That's a way to be organizing your drawing information. Again, that scale drawings group is gonna be altogether and it's deleted. Dimensions are separate from that. 11. Layout Annotations and Dimensions: Now we're going down to our dimension. I can just be choosing dimension. Very simply. The scattered the mentioned for something like my site here. And you put them in and you'll have the option, the option of you're doing angular dimensions. Get to put that in. The ability to also just be writing texts. For instance. Now we're going to add to our textiles. So right before you start your text, you can of course choose the type of texts that you want. So I'm using Futura and essentially I want to have 12 inches. And I had the choice of choosing it was going to be centered or how is it going to be displayed? I'm just going to click and the texts. I can do bedroom. Click off that. My options for how different things would be anchor shown. I like to center these as well. So again, when you're moving a text, make sure you get that icon because you can rotate it. You can do a lot of different things with it. You can even scale the box. You want to scale the texts. Choose the size from this tag here. Can you just choosing things little by little? And again, you don't have to, of course, do that. You can use also the T or the short code. You can set your own shortcut. So that's of course how you take care of that. And as I have like a stair that's going down here, all I need to do is maybe use my arc. Also different types of ways of making ark and disease that center. And it's going down. Some of the models, of course this simplifying things. But if I want, I draw that I need to do is come up here to my shape or moved my fill and just add a little arrow. I'm saying this is a down arrow. The Press place to this de-select. I've added different little tags to my drawing is right there. And that's how you would just be adding text to your drawing. So as we go down different pages, you have, I'm saying, okay, this is the same model. Now. Each page you're just drawing outside, you're not drawing in SketchUp model. So that's a very useful, useful way to just be having these. As I go down, you'll see I'm just labeled a proposed building and existing building. So there's a note here for sure when you're doing projects from sketch to make sure you have either using precise dimensions. So your project doesn't start having changed dimensions as you're developing it in this side, for instance, right here, you can choose a precision, but the idea is when the model is here, you are a little bit stuck for what's in the model. That's why of course separate some time the 2D drawing out. 12. Layout Scrapbook Libraries: Now let's look into the option for scrapbooking. Scrap booking has this toolbar here. What you can always see what the things are working on with the instructor for help. But in terms of scrapbook, the ideas you have pre-made symbols that you're in sketch if you'd go to three wells or import from cans to moving things around. But the way it happens in scrapbook is that you have things already sort of made. It just drag things into your Canvas. And it's really that simple to get something in here. Of course, there's things for things like arrows saying now, cars, that's an option. For instance, if I want to just draw some cars, the site plan, you see when I double-click on it, I can change things about geometry, but essentially it's a group and ideas. Now, I said this side is 1 eighth inch. You can be minding what sort of skills is so easy. So that's the great thing about these scrapbooks come to scale. So things are to scale with that. We can keep going down and you'd be adding people as well. One thing that's important, of course, is titled blocks. And when I look at some title box traditional ideas, we want to of course have a title for the drawing. Now one thing about things in the scrapbook, it's already formatted to a particular way. We'll talk about and make your own custom title block. But what I'm gonna do is I'm going to click on this one. And I'm just going to go ahead and choose a font for this title block. This one now is the site plan. Just need to select MySQL and let's kill us 1 eighth inch equals one foot orange. So that's the way I would be getting that sort of setup here. 13. Customizing The Ttitleblock: And I of course just changed the name of the drawing here. Site plan. And the title block also be edited. I changed the title of the project. It's modern house. And I could say any city. What I can do here is just like I did with my other functions, I can do changing the font. And it's great to do that before you start the project. Tour became bt. The same year. Tour became d t. So again, there's all, all the things you can add and change the font width. But now that we've added that, that's adjusting for all the pages, which is great. So we can do also for our cover page, we can come in and select our custom logo. That's going to be a very simple. We can just take this out and just insert n to the project. And so like I have one for this particular project. And that is you choose where you'd load that. You add one, maybe you'd pop it in. R have like a particular logo that I use. So I could just be locating that in and then put that into the project. Of course, create one in there. But I just pop in and just that simply. And so you just toss a logo in here. And like it did before the New and select multiple of these, you know, we're trying to do for Torah, for everything, which is low. Look at that there. And like it did before, also, for inserting a project. We just want to make sure we're getting everything that we want in the project. Double-click in here and modern building. And so they're all going to import the same list as outdated. And of course, if we do update, we can just click on Update right here. You can also change the base drawing that is loading from by clicking here. If you want to link it to another drawing, perhaps. Okay, so for here, we also have a firm perspective sign using this as my cover image. And so we're gonna go back to our pages. Of course, you could change your page up here as well. Yeah, the ability, of course, to be abating a drawing that's locked, you just go ahead and unlock it, reloaded and just give it a little time to reload. 14. Updating The Drawing Set: And we're gonna go to page and ideas if we load that same scrapbook item for that title. This one is going to go back to that same previous font. So that's a reason to know if you either, you're going to copy it here. But what you can also do is you're going to start changing the styles for several items. Maybe if you're going to change it for here, you're going to change it. The style for a label. Though. You don't really need to do this for labels. Labels are already in the project is very simple. So what you're gonna do, if maybe you'd be changing several things in a project. You might actually just go ahead and create a new template and things like this that you have changed the font. You'll go ahead and just put it in to something like this. And now you would go ahead and save as scrapbook. And it gives you like different locations, places, and so you, but you can choose a name. So I'll just say standard labels for Tura and I click Okay. Now, actually, when I go into another drawing here, for instance, I have this here. I can say this is a shadow study. What I do is I dropped down and now my standard labels are gonna be here. So it's great. And it comes in at the right scale. So I can say this is my shadows study. And of course I would just choose my scale for this. Doesn't have a scale, or it's 1 eighth. So I want to make that into one-quarter. Just pull that out. And I'm going to go ahead and just expand this. Trying again. This is sort of a bigger drawing. I'm just moving everything here. You see I just press Shift, so everything's selected together. So that option right there, you're not going to only three things in this drawing. That's definitely one of the caveats. You only add two-dimensional drawing elements. 15. Setting Project Settings: What I could do, of course the, maybe the help. How about the visuals in this project? I can of course, turn the grid on. And if you want to change things like grid or units, it would go to Documents setup. For instance. Currently the grid is millimeters, but you could have the spacing at one-inch divided eight times. You also can set the units for the drawing if you want to use feet and inches. And just click fractional here. Option for references or different things for your paper size. So that was already set up from the beginning. And you have the option to choose the way that you are working with the groups and it's lighter or darker. So it's showing these. And then it has an auto text information here that's also set up. Go ahead and close that. 16. Chapter 4: Elevations & Drawing Sets: Add another page and we're actually going to call this our elevations or elevation just put violation. And here we do that same element of inserting from our model. And we will go ahead and click on the south elevation that we already set up. So right now for something like this, we know we want to get that that basic set of information and where we have our few Torah labeling. And we'll just call this elevation revelation. Make sure it's going to be the fourth, so be the size of our plan. Now when you click that one quarter-inch. And so drag these edges out so we can see everything. And avoid double-clicking. You don't orbit the model. Mindful something that might have had to been hidden so you can see them in the model as well. Okay, so now we have our model then we'd go ahead and just lock it so don't mess with anything. One useful thing to do, of course, is to add in things like levels. And so one way to do that again, it's going to go to our standard withdrawal labels. We're going to take from TB's simple. And we have this elevation tag here. And we know we want it to be it for tour. So we're going to come in here and said that the futuro be KBT. So let's go ahead and save that. As we come back in here, just go to our scrapbook. Go back to our standard labels of the tour. You pull that in. And now you can see that that's gonna be two are our drawing. And the idea is we know this, this baseline point is going to be our 0. Now, that's definitely one other challenges. Working. And join is because you're having this. Now we've located at the same place, so delete that. So now we can go ahead and label this. This is R. Now if you want to keep it in this label, I sometimes I like to do it where I go. I put like level one or 0. Depends on where you want to have the The title and where's the tiger. And now I know that 12 foot is whereby second floor is. So either you can of course, calculate or you can use to your scale drawing. You got to make some particular elements here to that particular scale. I'm going to go ahead and do one-quarter and do my 12 foot. This is really just using this as a tool for working in the project. And I'm just going to drag I'm going to press Control C to copy. Now I have it here. No, this is my second level. So useful way of just getting things organized really quickly. So I put my elevations here. And so that's really useful. And now I'm going to add this a couple of different labels. So I have some things in the drawing. I have my curtain wall system. Let's pull that out. Now again to make sure that these are always going to be in the same format. And omega the future for tour, you would set it before putting the item down. Like this here. Now as I click on label again, I'm just going to go ahead and set it up before I taught it like this. And I'm putting this as my steel column. You just start your elements and that sort of fashion. And of course, we choosing your layers for your annotations, of course, versus putting these in just general layers. That's always useful. Turn those off. If you need. I'm going to go ahead and put both of these to the layer of annotation. And I would use my geometry layer, my current layer. One thing if I want to draw like the door opening, something like that, you just be drawing that somebody else. I would just take off the fill and they make the scale much larger. I just press control C and control V to copy this. And I just flip that top to bottom or flip left to right really. Now my door opening. And of course, like I have the scrapbook here. I can go into my scrap just very simply. Get with some of my other tags. I need, like for my door. Pull this down to make sure when I'm selecting on my door one. I need this also. Beefy tour. I can just come here and select that footer be KBT. Just like previously I wanted to in my standard labels, I can just come here and just say that. So that's really useful way. Another way for these to be actually a little bigger, you can always just change the canvas size. That's one of the setups issues for this type of drawing. Sorry to say A2 cleaves this. Or I could make it A4, make everything a little bit closer and just move everything so they are closer to the middle of the canvas. Well, let's save this and I go back to my project and I look at the scrapbook. So if I go to buy a standard box tour, it's a little bit larger now. Okay, so I've added the levels, added a couple of labels. You do the same thing. So this whole project just see this canopy. And also of course this could this copy this same Newt and it's all different copying labels. But I could just repressing the directional pad to locate this one. So it's not as much of an issue if you want it to. After these these type of things also, go ahead and put in a section. You could also find that in your scrapbook. So simple. I can be placing in your course he definitely like north arrows. Going in. Looking for my section. You can find that on that third page. And I can just simply choose somewhat one of these. So I have section that I've made in the drawing will be locating that one as well. 17. Adding Sections: Well now we're going to lubricate our section. I created the top of the section. Now I'm going to create, I would bring in that bottom of it. And what I'm gonna do is make sure I just locate that and that way and just pull that down. And so w of course you don't have to really draw both edges of that. And mostly been to is B, That's where I can match a style that's sort of like paint. Paint, the same as the pink command. So now we'll just go into my new page and add in my section that I made in the modern SketchUp building. So that would take me back to my SketchUp model view. I'll click my building section. Doing that same sort of thing, Rahm, make sure that's going to the right scale. What I could do is just sort of go back to, I'll just label this too much building section of my elevation. And just copy my television tags. Come to my page here. And you can just use this drawing to make sure my level is going to be here. And that's one of the challenges is the little fountain and precise. But I'm looking at it. But here, what I of course can do is turn it into vector mode. And that helps it and precision. So I'm not trying to Katrina to like just the visual element. So now I have my level here. And you can speed Pulling your line. And I have that same sort of selection there. If you want to actually just locate something. Again, they can match that location. From there. You see that targeted end. So now we have our building section here. We can just copy or a label back in here. Let's put this as our building section. We've unwrapped very simple. Everyone of course moves in from the edge of the page. Do the same thing. Other drawing, go ahead and do that there. So now I can say on that, that drawing. And now we have a little bit of a challenge because some of the drawing is shaded and this actually is a cabinet. Well, we can simply do is always just go into our shape and just really fill it with, you know, something that's just hide the square and take off the dash. Just duplicate this, drag it, press Control. Now we can just come in here with our text. Make sure we have the right textile. And I could just label the rooms, bathroom. We came down and kitchen. So we just have those spaces labeled. Now we have a lot more information about the drawing. So I'm gonna go ahead and just zoom out, dark my tray a little bit and make sure that I'm saying everything's them to page. And we'll just look at the rest of our drawing to see what sort of things we have. 18. Reviewing The Drawing Set: Now we have our elevation or building section, our site plan for plant or change the name. And we'll just make sure, of course, are each trying to have the title block. And we also want to make sure the title block is gonna be in the same place. So we can go for course, do a little bit of a shortcut for that. On each page. Put it back to the main or reference point. We're not going to use our shadow study as much. Using it. We just leave that in there and do the same sort of element here. Their second floor plan. Forage. This drag it, press Control to copy. And now I just label our first floor plan. We have a nice cover page. First floor or site plan through Bible, a bird's-eye plan above this one. We can, of course take that out. Elevation. It's gotten started, building section started. And just have a lot of shallow study that we'd go and click on here. Changes skillfully undid. We want to go ahead and click on this and turn off shadows back on. But I want to make sure to lock it. Probably was lifted up just a little bit. So the set is almost done here. Again. I'll note that it's always useful also to have a section detail. I'm going to go and do like really slow such detail and assemble all section. 19. Adding Tables and A Drawing Index : For a project, it's important before we try adding more drawing to have a bit of a organization of all your drawing in the model. And one thing we're gonna do to achieve that is to go ahead and create a table of the drawings. And I'm just going to use a simple free row. Make sure to select that and then you choose the width for that. Just press space bar. And so when I go into that and I'm just going to change that organization for it. Dressing how that sort of expands out. But now we have this here. And what we're doing is setting my locations. So I have my drawings, have my cover to uppercase. Makes sure that my font is going to be futuro. Fun of choice. A, one. That's going to be my site. Join a to those of my floor plans. A, three, my shadow study. You can see as we were putting things in, some of these are aligned a little differently. And so one way to control that as probably just select a bunch of these, just make sure they're all going in the same way. You have a little bit of extra space here that we don't want. Okay? And then for the other sort of elements in this join, we can of course come back and look at our or page list. And we can just very simply this copy what we have here. And then we just go into the drawing and just confirm just to make sure that everything has the right page number. I'm just going to we'll make sure to organize this the same way. Think about our cover page. You get that Ale for being an elevation. L5 being our building section. We have a O6 being it's gonna be our building detail or sexual wall section detail. We of course can always come back and insert a row above. Want to add something to that? And that's how you would make a simple table. Then you can organize your drawings. Give it a title separated from their drawing index. We just save that. 20. Chapter 5: Section Details & Layout Geometry: Before we continue, I wanted to definitely go into a little bit about the geometry and layout is more interesting things with it. So right now you have like this interesting shape. But you know, I have so many options. I can just go in here. I can actually cut this shape. And I can of course, start drawing different shape within it. Why don't you, if I want to join these two forms, this is used that glue that actually makes it a constant shape. The next thing we can do this, if you wanted to add to align that we already had started. All you need to do is just click on the edge and it will automatically add to it. It's no problem. And if you wanted to, of course, offset from a form, you just do it like this. And L and join that back up. And the same thing for here. Now, there's an interesting function, of course also. If for instance you wanted to make like a, a sort of a whiteout portion and I'll just put some other geometry behind it. I'm just going to rearrange this to the front. What if I wanted to just to cover that edge? And I don't want really to show any of the other sides. So what I do is I would keep the fill, remove the stroke, and I would just draw another line. You can see where the same point is. And that would help me immediately go into my stroke and two points. Now one thing I do for stuff like that is I'll go ahead and just make it as a group. So if you're doing a building and you want to have elevation, very simple way you could do it that way. And another thing of course, you could do, just like in SketchUp. You can actually array geometry. That's obviously useful because you don't always have time just to be making new items. So that's a useful way to just really quickly do that. Of course, you can always make sure you have your arranged layers to the front. And at the end of the day, you can always take all those geometry and turn them into a group that really helps you organize things out. The there is an ellipse function then you typically don't see too much in SketchUp. Also very, very useful. And obviously the great thing about it is why SketchUp, these are not like segmented. So that adds another level to work with. And when you have two shapes, you don't really have the same effect of a Boolean or something. But you do always have that ability to cut something. So that's still useful, a useful set of things to do. So when I did that, I obviously connected edge. I do want to add something like that. Just do that glucagon. So that's another way of getting that same effect. Again, you have that ability to now also work with Beziers, which you didn't have in SketchUp. That's also another interesting way of working with forms. And you have, again, these options. It's a lot more intelligent with a lot of these functions. Get a lot more control over geometry with things like that. Those are, those are some of the ways you can just really get a better control over your model. Now, I don't exactly use Snap to Point, but you do have the option to snap to the grid. You don't have that option really in your SketchUp model. But again, it's just, I guess your mind the Fill. Make sure you have your show but take out the film. That's one of the things about that. Working through really, just be really precise about what you're doing. And again, it's also obviously very useful to just be drawing and creating groups. Though obviously, you're not going to have an issue by adding, touching a line in SketchUp. So that's a note as you're figuring out your geometry. Some ways of, you know, making your work easier for you. I'll also show the fact that we're going to go ahead and move the center point. And we show the array function also being with the circles, is you pretty much do the same thing as you would do in SketchUp. 21. Adding A Wall Section: Now we're going to be adding a page for our low section in detail. And we're just really going to be simple about this. And we're really going to have to work inside of layout for this, for the main part of that, organized some of this. A little bit complicated. But I will go ahead and just add the start. That way. We can sort of see how much do we really have to gain from that. I'm going to go ahead and insert from my main join. We're going to make sure that I'm inserting a small section. And the reason why while section is different is this, I'm just choosing a different set of information. And go ahead and set that scale to get a three-eighths. So this is gonna be a little bit larger. So I'm going to actually be breaking this into more than one bits. And the way to do that, then this console extended up press Control, which are duplicates. So a reason why someone would choose to maybe not use this is because, you know, I'm I'm going to have to redraw a lot of things. So for instance, my sidewalk and wanted to have a little bit lower. You see that my curtain wall system is going to interface with the ground. Like I want to really have my old some detail for these elements. For instance, if I go back to my shape and I'm gonna go ahead and click on pattern and say, you know, I want my country. And I go to my materials. I'm going to go to my really start off with port. Casper is concrete. And so I have a little bit of detail here, but the idea is that a curve, and that's one of the challenges for this form. So the ideas I would be really choosing for my details starts. What I want to do is to make sure that none of the curve, though I see a curve going on, I'm pretty much have to shut down a lot of a lot of the geometrical stuff going on here. I want to make sure it's a solid line when x is fine for the scale. So what I'm doing now here is also a break some of this line. Because I definitely want to build that profile out. What are the trim here? And what I can typically do is because that sort of thing happens is I can just go ahead and come down. It'd be just separate this out and move this 1. Now. Move this up. And now it just is glue these two together. Okay? So now we have our slab edge. So essentially I'm, you know, I'm gonna be redrawing this whole system. And the challenge already is that I'm doing this in paper space essentially. So I'm going to now start switching into, going into my scale drawing. This is going to be in my 38 scale. And now, now I get to see is this is precise at all. So I guess go ahead and check that out. I'm not sure that I would want that to exactly be this precise because I want to make it so I can actually below it up, duplicate it over here. So for that reason I'm actually going to even draw it again because it's just going to cause a little bit of complication to keep it in that way. So what I'm gonna do is go down four inches and just make sure that my scale is set up. Going pull my line over here. Just start adding to it. Branches. For this side. Let me go ahead and just come down three feet. We come in 12 inches. So now I'm just going to pull this over. I get to close it and now I have like exact dimensions. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to make the sidewalk. I'm going to just come out in them. They go negative six feet by four inches. And my sidewalk needs to come down by leaves 1.5 inches. So this simply delete that point. This throughout where I want it to be. You can see it showing five inch. So now we have the location. So now I can pull that out. And essentially I'm, I'm, I'm trying to match something happening here because I have a desired relationship and go ahead and put that in. Even I can start changing some of the relationships in the drawing. 22. Adding Section Components: What I've done for my curtain wall, I've actually come in and created a scrapbook where I've been ported some details the manufacturer will look into and it's cold owed castle. And what you have with a manufacturer like this is you have the ability to go in and extract different products. And so what I, I checked is a simple unitized system. So a system that they'll put the two pieces together. So like products, sites like this are great because they just will include exactly what you need. I'm going to cut to the chase a little bit because this is working on loading. But what happens is that you get different information about the system that you'd use. The square for putting together a detail. You can find all sorts of DWG and you'll find them models that are pretty much rivet won't open and this software, but you can open your AutoCad. What I've done is of course I've just taken that into AutoCad, which I won't go into here. But essentially, you can just take out the details and just imported in. As I go into my scrapbook where I just I just copy them into a file nature. They're at a particular scale. I've used three-eighths and three-inch. And I'll introduce this, move it on in this drawing. One of the things for this one is just got to make sure that the right one that we can immediately start to check that we're working at the right scale. So our unit is supposed to be 2.5 inch. So even in the scale drawing, 2.5 inch, we just come down to 2.5 inch. We can see that this is a little bit too large for what we're trying to do. So we will use a dimension string, This fibers, so we see it's too big. So what we can do is come in here. And we see that it's double skill up. Just go ahead and bring the rest of these. And I have three conditions. I have a head, a jam, and a sill. It's all vertical. I just come in here. And this is the thing that you can, of course this very simply do by clicking on the shape style. Start to make sure we're clicking the right elements. We can change the stroke right here, 2.2 because it's very detailed. And I'm actually going to group this. It's one of the ways I like to do just make sure they're always together. And just 0.5 scaling. So now on to just make sure I'm placing these in the right location. In one way. There are also a lot of the same right edge. I can always the one part that's not in the right edge. Click all three of these and work on alignment. The line right. This one is still a little bit off because the way they were end up working. In fact, it's still a little bit thick. I can even go down to 0.10. And I want these to be a line. So I'm gonna go ahead and draw a line to help me locate these to be matching. And the beauty about what we're doing here is when we finished this at this scale, who does go ahead and copy it to our detailed scale and where we can add a lot more detail. 23. Adding Section Structure: So as you can start seeing when I'm adding this detail, the reason why I wouldn't exactly want to show that, that base insert layer of the drawing. I'm going to put these on the Insert layer and the interior layers above, but I'm going to actually take it down below. So now by this high did you see that now it's going to work in more precise information. So what I decided to do also is you're not really going to, I'm not going to show just a scale. Like start putting together how much detail is going to look, coming up and makes sure that I'm in my scale drawing is going to be coming up here. That's going to be more. My outer edges are lining. This kind of very simply put in pretty much an eight inch piece by a one-inch piece by piece. And I will use my, my, my cut as my cut lines is this thickness. So now I'm going to put a little line just to show the type of piece that I'm using, sort of a, sort of a Naylor. So we're going to put our structure. And the way we're gonna do is we're going to make sure that structure is going to be at four inches. On center. We have taken off feel. We have our organization of this relates to be a little bit larger piece. So maybe even you'll see that the thickness of the wall is going to be a little larger, this unit being about seven inches. So question, move that over one inch. Make sure that's one inch. Just type it. Could the location. So I'm going to create our eight by eight now and make sure that it's 0.25 minutes for that radius. That's how we do that. And that over for edge location I'm not super concerned with for the purpose that it's going to be diagrammatic. I'm going to add a cut line here. And I can locate that cut line. My page here. This will see that you didn't simpler traditional. Just want to cut through an object. One right here. The only thing for here is just adding a little whitespace. So you can see here that by copying this down and just pull something like this. And just turn this into a pure fill of white. And also just move the stroke. Turn this into a group. Now we have a bit of a way to control how this is working and what we can do for this one. You can just go ahead and turn this into a center line for the Giant. And we'll turn it into a centralized me so I organized my drawing. Okay, so now we'll also put in this drawing. We know this is a curved wall. We're not going to let that sort of directors, but more like what we're doing with the jump tree. It's kind of directors. We have the center line right here. And we're gonna make sure for this two-piece that we're also off-setting it. The 3 16th will go ahead and turn this into a little thicker weight, 0.2. Leaving group it. We'll make the inside sort of white fill outside. I'm going to make sure that pattern is going to be still, you know what, even change that scale 3.5. So this will be very valuable when we're trying to do the detail. And the way we have it is we're really going to be putting this over two pieces that are going to be on the inside and outside. The move this out, do a copy and move it out four feet. And do the same thing. So the phone inside of a little bit less, the five foot six. So these are the central line. Makes sure these are going to be the same center line on that. And make sure it's a3x so it's not too small. This is where the outside column is going to be. And the way I've actually done it is that the roof support is going to be over this or even this will be coming up. And again, this is just taking a guess at how structural V, again. But the idea is for the drawing as well, the drawing. This is a useful way of just imagining it. So this is going to be, now I'm drawing the tube. And I'm going to make sure it's the regular rectangle. And I'm going to smooth that out. Past the two. Though. I'm going to show you what's going to happen. Two feet, three inches up. My three-inch to that supporting my canopy roof. Makes sure we're only going to be stretching it out. Going to create my what I'm gonna do is a 4-inch pipe and it's gonna go up to the top of this roof. So what I'll do is creating four inches by negative six feet. The Dempsey. Let's try to get that again. Four inches, negative, where I just put six feet in that direction for negative. Six feet. Okay. Got it. So this is going to go up the tube or the dyes into this. What happens here is we sort of create another element like this, but we were trying to keep this a little bit smaller. Ideas. The tube dyes into a bit of a member, as well as we can hide some of the stuff that's happening up here. So we've just simply looking for how to sort of express this will create another rectangle that's surrounded by four by four. And so what's going to happen is we're going to create actually a level of I'll just do a generic I mentioned and do a tie-in crew decking. That's going to be over this. We just use the simple. We're not really make the brick. I'm just using that sort of tool shoulder. So this will be something going over the levels. Now what I need to do here is I'm glad put this at this way. I'll do that three or 16. And so now we have an idea of how these things are working. And I'll go ahead and pull this tube down. First column. And I'm actually offsetting the column as well. And that's going to be one over mentioned. Yeah, that's gonna be the same sort of show color. They will be more of a dotted line. So this column, I'm not really showing different types of plates just for diagrammatic purposes. Right now. We'll go ahead and make sure that this is all going to be on the center of my center line. So my tube. Now, this tube is also going to have to do little offset action as well. And want to make sure to grab that affect, put that on there. When I pretty much typically the same condition on the inside. The inside one of the things, you know, that's up for grabs, if I'm just gonna make column, I'm going to do both this and that. That over. That's how we're building it out. Get a proper set of information. 24. Adding A Beam: Now we're going to actually extend a little bit of some of the concepts for what's going on. So we blacked out. Things met a little more detailed here. But we know that we're going to start getting too much into the details if we were time on that. So we'll go and just do some of the things that are critical to the drawing. We're going to go to the roof level. Our column actually goes to the roof and will actually be duplicating these curtain wall formation. Again. Leave that right there. What's going to happen here in the roof is that we'll actually be using something like a 12 by 14, which is sketching out what's going to be used. So essentially this column will go up. I was just being a little diagrammatic with it. I'm not going to get super into detail, but I'm just going to do 12 by 12. And I'm going to just do some basic shaping of a steel member. And it's all gonna be solid. And I just need to just go and come in and pull that down. Then this will just be then make this one. Just go ahead and flip it top to bottom. These things together. Go ahead and just mirror that. Just like this. Again, you can always import these types of things in here. But I'm just going to go ahead and just make it like this for right now. To get more accurate, you can always do that. Let me go ahead and just copy that here and disconnect that here. So that's my struck for unit for my roof. That's a little bit little bit. It's small, but that's what we're going to work with. And we're gonna go ahead and move the center point. Really easy to do here. Relied to vertically. We want to make sure that this one is locked. So that's one of the ways we can keep this a little more simple. Move, this whole thing right here. That six inches over. So it might be larger, might be smaller, but that's what we're starting with. So, so we have this going up here and what happens? And I'm lowering it because it's just like make sure I have enough space. 25. Refining Roof Structure: I also have room for what's happening on the roof. Not thinking about having a similar sort of situation of a beam and column coming out or two coming out here. Having a little bit of that sort of thing happening up here. In the variation of course, is that to make sure I'm not running into my window. So, you know, a little bit of detailing one-to-one. I get to figure out some of the important details to make this thing work. And we do now, move that up a little bit. Is we have this piece coming out and go ahead and now create a little bit of a detail for 1.5 inch system of tray. And this tray is for the working with pretty much a unit to go in and go down when working as a support for this roofing installation. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and just set all this up. I cut this line and this point. Amazed that duplicate. Go ahead, flip it. To cut that here. I'll even just cut it here. And I just made a little pretty much a template. And I'm going to make sure that it's all glued together. But when I'm duplicating that is going to be that my edge copied over here. Now I'm going to be copying edges like this. Now, the one way to keep this. So we're still working properly is where I get to. Of course, I'm just really duplicate, duplicate, duplicate. And so I can simplify that. I guess I'm just going to be using my Control D 20 just to supply my life. Because I know what's going to happen when I get over my main building is I'm going to really be creating that again. So I'm gonna go ahead and actually extend up this line, which I'm saying is the edge of my unit here. I'm actually going to go ahead and copy that on over inches. I'm just come back in a little bit. I'll go ahead and group this. Make sure I copied up. So I move that all the way up to the bottom. This member. So just like so it'd be four. We're doing a similar sort of thing. Now. One challenge, of course, is that this whole piece is going to be perched up a little bit. We know that. We'd get to choose if we want to have it a little bit smaller here. I'm just going to just continue working out the details a little bit. Just in Central. I want it to go up two inches. I'm going to come over 12 inches. Go up 0.25 inches. So I add my line here. Come here, take out the sexual. Now I have a starting point for my installation. This will go to that edge of my wall and ideas. This point, again, I'm putting in my member. And I think it might be the way to do this. So I'm working everything out as we go. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to do that center point as center line. Match that. And I'm going to do my line from center here. That really tells me where I need to be working. This is where layout becomes a much a design tool as it is. Now a visual tool. Make sure 20 coop mass bearing. Okay. So really my all this roof action up here should really be aligned to what's happening here. And there's gonna be a different system that's gonna be working when I get to my roof. So I'm gonna go ahead and just pick a group out of this thinking. That's gonna be the one that I'm working on my roof. So I'm gonna go ahead and pull the rest of this material down unless you got to make sure to group. My decking. And what I can do of course later is go ahead and put that as one. Let me go ahead, move this whole structure down. And I move that up tonight. And to group, variable, group this, glue these things together and they have an issue. We'll just take this whole thing. Don't know that that 1 can be We don't need that line. That's our minimum sloping quarter, 1, 12th. So we're going to put this to sort of structure. Go up when they know is anymore 0.5 inches? 1.5. I get there. Okay. Okay. Again, this is again, it can be pretty detailed, but it's still may not be perfect. Okay, so what I'm gonna do after I get to this point, and the idea is giving up proper plate for the connection to my color. And I'm also of course making sure to structure that below. So this is one of the, again, not a structural engineer. So we can very well be that the best way to do this is to really pull this element down. But we're not trying to be structural engineers for this exercise. Like this could be the best way to do this. I have this in the plane. Then I just pull those down. So what I do to help this one out, come back up, make this a group actually hide this. But now I have the ability to just say, these all need to be one. Then I'm going to make this as a fill for rigid insulation. Can I'm not trying to be super precise with this. While I'm working it out a little bit more. So that this can very well work with when I'm turning it into a section D del, because you can't really see all this here. But when it starts to look like a section detail, you're going to immediately see. Okay, that's why it's this way. Okay, so now I made that solid. I'm going to come down here and make sure this is going to be rigid insulation. Want to do it at 0.5 x. What I'll do here at this final edge is I'm actually going to create a, something like a three by three. And this is for an angle. I'm actually going to go up, but it's a little bit. When they come out. 3 16th of an inch, one turns into a group. When this pull this up, pull this up and just delete all the extra stuff. This one and this will just go do that and together and turn that into still. Look at the document patterns. Just very simply said that to steal and just make it a very small scale. That's what my installation ends. And a way to just sort of figure out how to deal with this sort of edge is just create a small channel. I'm just doing a little bit of a generic size though. One I could of course say I wanted to be like that minimum size. Make sure I'm doing this in the right plane. So they do like 1.5 by seven inch. It could cover it. And what I'll do is come in here and go and three-sixteenths of an inch. Doing that same sort of effect. Just take these two and just make sure this splitting edges that I don't need. I'll turn these two into one. So my tongue and groove decking is closing here. And I'll make sure also from my section pieces that these all have at least a point to even this. I'm using it as a solid layer right now, but I think it's going to be this layer and a little bit of a 100 level at that when we doing the detail. To make up the rest of this distance. I can even have made that a three-by-three. So to match this, though, when I go ahead and pull it out to get it to the place where it's matching here. Now this one above is not trying to align with anything. It's sort of candidly ring out. So that's a little note for that one. So again, make sure that it's clear what's happening above here. You have a piece of structure coming out and connecting with this structure. 26. Adding Break Lines: And this is going to be where a curtain wall system is. And we'll just go ahead and pull up the curtain wall system. We're just going to do one more element to finalize this. Because right now it's just showing the outer edge when they go and use a small line to connect these. Again, this is some of that detailed stuff exactly match the that original one. Will turn this into a group. This on our glazing. You can't really see it this girl, but it will be useful. We go into our section detail scale. Again, I'm using cut marks. So a lot of the stuff is not going to be immediately visible. Range in our brain, the front. And I'm going to go ahead and just copy this down. And on the flip it top to bottom. And I'll flip it left to right. So this sort of matches. And one thing I'll also do, both of these actually expanded a little bit wider. So to do that similar thing down here, let's turn to a group, just make it easy. Then I'm going to go ahead and just copy this up. Similar detail. 27. Completing The Roof Structure: What I can do now above this element and this kind of flat right now, say what if this, we've got same height. So I can go ahead and just put this whole system back in the same plane. That's a lot of things that you're trying to do with structure. I'll go ahead and is coming here. Pull this up for this one. This is going to be some fathers. Now since I have this edge, actually much easier. Because I can just be drawn this rail on that profile. I'll be adding in sending that mask as I go from my roof. Of course also, I would be making sure there's something though, I'll start to show as empty telling it. And it's without a pattern. It's where I start to create my my layer of insulation and such that one of the things that check is make sure that I still have my sort of layer going on here. So alright, so you see I'm building that section out. What would happen on the other end is if I said this is my eighth inch piece and that's the one I'm working with. I would be creating better the eight inch by two inch, maybe to eight by two. And this is actually now I'm starting to deal with a channel. And so this is like the, I don't even probably need to even put the element of the the profile I think because with a stud channel, it's pretty much just the stud. And so I just had to make a thickness to it. And ideas. This would go all the way to the roof. I'm putting this on here though. It could go back a little bit because I have my structure here. But I'll go ahead and just leave that as it is right there. I'm just going to just lift that up. I'm just flip that top to bottom. So now I have my my start at the top. And all I need to do is just put in something like a plywood. The 0.75 by two feet. The end 0.75 feet. Because just like any other program that's pretty, pretty robust and helping me deal with this. Now I'm gonna go ahead and put one of my channels. Like my angle here. Again, you could also just make this into your own library. A useful way of organizing with these. Make that be to the top of this element. I'm going straight to that section piece. And even I could just say, I wanted to just copy a piece like this. Or I have I want it to just Or use a plate, I could do something like that as well. So let's keep them very simple system. What I'd probably do for this layer right here is probably do a two-inch concrete. So this would actually be a little bit different as it's pointing a little bit more load. Take both of these is to tell it out a little bit and turn them into a group. Come back in here and ungroup this one. Put my line in. Now, just start to put everything down. Now this is gonna be a cast-in-place concrete. Reduce that scale. Now I have this for my roof and above this is where I can start to put in different types of insulation. Use that same sort of plywood system here. It even sort of move this angle off so I can get this element properly placed. Again, you can start dealing with that later. I'm still trying to just be sort of basic and I know my roof is going a little bit high, so I can already just started eight edges for this. To get the installation. I could go 12 inches n and d, 0.25 inches down. And I just come in here. Let's delete that 1. I want to do. Of course this is the sort of keep the same angle that it was at that. And we'll just do as a group, make a little easier to edit this line out. And this is going up. It is pull it all the way back. And this will be, our rigid insulation will change that scale again. So the thing to do, of course, for here, go ahead and just put a two by a lot of pattern. And we can just go in here and put a break metal. And if it's sometimes hard to work with the juncture, let this just come in here and choose a piece that would just kept this. Can, I'm not setting details. So it might not be exactly perfect with ideas. I'm just putting something in here that we'd worked out. And just like have like my little element of fleshing. That wraps up goes over. Then of course have your ability sort of flashed at top. Then you would have your layers just like that and ideas. This is going to be more valuable as you go to your second detail. And you can same time, it's coming here, go to geometric. There's some great other elements that you can be using. Just because it's hard sometimes to find the one that we need to load a little bit. Geometric. Get a chance and he is a little bit of a honeycomb pattern to deal with some of our possible spray foam. It's not getting what we want. You guys just come in here and look for that. The geometric pattern made me feel like at the site pattern or a tonal pattern. So give me an alert for things. Sometimes they get exactly what you're looking for. In here. Let's go back. We have the honeycomb other, yeah, There's a little bit hard to see. So now we have this. We can also just choose the line weight if it was to black. Let's just reduce that, um, that trocar or the gray. The pattern has that ability to also lightened. I'm going to probably say that's something you would deal with a little bit outside of here. Live outside of the scope, where you can be updating the pattern reference or resetting it. My goal is really just to be dealing with it. Very simply. We would go ahead. Of course. We have a couple of different things we're doing with roof. Then makes sure to have, of course, are under limits. That's gonna be our dash, dash above line, which is our PDM. And I made that they're the same thing actually would have in here. My little waterproof membrane. Put that a little bit above. Now I going to add my underlayer. That underlayer. It's gonna be the proper way. And it just wouldn't be selecting and makes sure that it's going to be that right layer for it. You're doing. This one's a little bit thicker. No, it doesn't need to be that thick. So we have this worked out and generally. 28. Refining The Curtain Wall Detail: And we're going to come back into the curtain wall. That's gonna go into it. We're going to make sure that this one is pushing all the way. Yeah, we just get the stretch. Is geometry straight up. There. We have it. We're just dealing with this little by little. And because we stretch the kernel by accident, just copy it. That's no worries. Just come back now by pressing control when we drag it. And these got a little bit slower because of things that the processing for these lines. Little newt. Pull this one finally down. Even as for our discussion or figure out a way to just work with that one, be in another way. Pull this finally down. Simple scaling. So there we have it. Curtain wall. This is upper system. We just want to go ahead and just pull the bottom-down polar glazing down. Make sure it's tight. Alignment will fix it. So we just need to file a, just put our sort of similar roofing system idea. What saved the joy. 29. Completing The Wall Section: Welcome back into here. Because this is more comprehensive. Could always just even just replace that one down there. But we're going to copy it just for simplicity sake. I'm leaving some of the system intact. Alright? These are the items that you want to bring down or just turn those into a flight it on down, pull it down. Even now when you're changing those elements. And you of course, can just come back in here. Just like we had with our system there. We could make sure to bring this one in as well. Have like several different systems, makes sure you're doing this properly. That flash and we go down here. Now you have your wall section, or I need to do now is add your levels and maybe add more cut lines. This room to this covenant on Dell. And random bring that to the front. This is on the wrong layer, which it probably is. In fact, the whole thing might be best be placed on a detail layer. Details. Even select everything here and just move all of these things to the layer of details. That'll help things out a lot. Of course, because there's lots of lines. It takes a little wires and be mindful of that. Go ahead and skim, bring to front this one right here. Now all we need to do is we can go back to our scrapbook layer for adding our common things like our title block or are mentioned here for you put this edge here. And I would just say this is our wall section is the three-eighths of an inch. Now, just be pulled out on over here. And we'll just select a little bit out of this section detail. You know when to do this one at three inch. That's gonna be the next thing. 30. Chapter 6: Preparing The Section Detail: The next thing we're gonna do is work on our detail. What I'm going do is go ahead and make this as number two. It's gonna be very simple time to be as involved as the previous one. I'm going to add to this the levels at the same time. I'm going to go ahead and just pull it over. It's in a copy. The way I'm gonna do it, I'm just going to really just break it down. So I'm just going to be focusing on base elements so as to not to complicate this elements. Again, you notice that it takes a little longer because it's work with yellow lines. Let's be mindful of that. Let's assess the challenge of drawing details than this program. But I think any program you use would take a little longer. I think AutoCad might be slower, but there's a lot of functionality and design that makes it desirable to keep it in this system. Okay, So what we're gonna do, first come down and delete the part that we're not using. That's going to definitely make the computer goes faster, quick and up our pace. And I'm only going to really show what's happening and what do you have this area. So even this, I'm just gonna go ahead and take it out. Now what we're gonna do after letting this go. Now we get a chance to focus on what's happening down here. An exit out of that. When I click on this go join. Now figured out how to place things on here that are useful for the scale we're going to be looking at. Alright, so you see it's got a larger, substantially larger. Now to fit this on the page. Gotta be a lot more strategic. 31. Refining The Section Detail: Now I've gone through the effort of resizing my drawing just a little bit so it fit. Obviously it's not the most glamorous work, detail work, but ideas to detail out a part of this system that can be used is gonna be very beneficial in the design process. So what I did, of course, is the scale and organize. And the fact is that's what you're doing. When you're working with a project. In this program, you're just like with SketchUp. You're figuring things out, you know, making cut lines. You working out where things go. And so I'm going to finish off this particular element by creating some just a couple of cut lines here and some notes. Definitely help out. My understanding this project, it takes a little longer loading. It, it is a very much larger file now because of the complexity. But what some people do is maybe make a separate file just for details because of the sizes and the complexities that these can add to your drawing. Again, you want to use layout, that's your option. There's a lot of great things about this. For instance, like choosing Zach visual style. So for instance here, now that I've gotten to this new layer, I would be choosing to have my strokes close to one millimeter. And that's going to make a lot faster than you would do it on a lot of other programs. So it'd be something I'd be really interested in because it lets you choose the most beautiful way to depict your own model, your own, your own work. And that's really valuable to a lot of designers. And so that's a great reason to be doing that. Okay, so I'm adding my line weight and I'm taping it down for certain elements. For the most part. It's putting things to the top. People can see the size relationship of the elements that are in the drawing. Even. Now, I'm correcting certain things. As you hear back from a structural engineer and so on. You can be even better refining your your work. And that's a beautiful things about working with this program in this sort of saying what it can do. Visually. You can be communicating your project. One thing course. Now you can figure out different ways that you would show something like an advanced system. And that's gonna be something that will be valued by your customers. Your teammates is being able to understand the work that you're putting in. So much better. I'm coming down here and these are going to have that one, you know? And so now we're reaching the end of this process and now we're just going to be showing, you know, I, it could even be dimensioning. I was holding off from that a little bit. But, you know, I would actually dimension outside of that element. But whereas I've created this section detail that can be going ahead and labeling it to the details separately. 32. Annotating The Details: I can just go ahead and just from my scrapbook, be looking at different ways of working with highlighting everything. So the traditional is pretty, pretty effective. Go ahead and start putting like my section tag here. So see that I was dealing with this element. I don't need to go ahead and it that way. Thank goodness. We orient everything here. Go and just flip this left or right. It's come back in here. And I can be flipping these letters left to right. We know that this drawing is a L5. L5 is the one that's gonna be here. Let we come back out from both of these and make sure that's gonna be my futuro, be k, BT. And all we need to do is make sure this is coming over. Just pull it down. Now we're just going to add some simple noting for this drawing when I had saved the drawing. So we can say this is still channel. So they'll put all the notes. Of course, is this useful to someone to get the idea of what's going on here. And what I normally would do is I would be getting into more detail as they got into different scales. So I'm going to go actually back to my page for my elevation to pick up these level tags. This come back to my wall second page. Locate these. And as you get smaller, you go the more detail you can locate things. Now one of the things that I was working on how we design this, and I was saying, hey, you know, what, if this roof is going to be at the full level? So it actually looks a little nicer than a drop-down. So that, that's obviously an opportunity for design. So that's something that you'd be playing around with. Since it's not exactly in the model, get the shape. We can make sure this is like 40. And make sure it's one line pattern. And we could go up here. And the location of this element redacted, probably located by the, by the steel. And I just put roof here. There's about a 20 foot six. Can you can measure that in your model to be more precise about it. But all these things you will be going and coming down. And you probably orient to everything according to something like a top of that channel. For instance. Be at that distance. Just be pulling the cell. Make sure this is fully aligned. And then pull that down to meet this element. Whatever you have here. Just go and copy it back over. So it's clear. Even more crystal clear. You're a smaller drawing. What's happening in the bigger drawing? And of course, space is always appreciated. Of course it's come back as well. Some of this stuff is overlapping. This come back in and make sure things are not going to be overlapping into your particular title block. Obviously, we don't need to have that blocked off in any way. They can do the same thing. Just pull that down and flip it. Much more of that. So where we can of course, start to detail different those elements to maybe even start putting dimension on it. Because obviously I was being precise about dimension this out very easily. Just make sure that my dimension is going to be in the right font. Be measuring everything as I go. My three foot by four foot element here. Even though I haven't dimension this ideas, It's all been set up beforehand. And you know, even I can say, because this is a little bit of my center line. I can be dimensioning. Know how exactly far off is this element going to be off my drawing? Or because I have, my second level line gets pulled out on over. I can be telling people exactly how high the structure comes off to start this window. Yeah, I could be saying that, you know, all these relationships exist within this drawing. So that's, again, that's just part of that power of just figuring out architecture. And so you just using the benefit of layout. I don't think I'm just heading for this time. Let's make sure we know is accurate, level, level is squared is pull this line over, copied. We should move the wrong layer. This one was way too much copying. We could also, of course, this detail with some type of things we've gone here. So how high above the sidewalk is, thing's gonna be et cetera, et cetera. So now we have sort of details that go with a project. Let's go ahead and add another section tag. Go to our scrapbooks to place into our main dry. I'm going to do a one to five. This copy that I'm always the best procedure. But it's gonna be useful just to get it done with the same formatting. This is 18105. And we do is close down that area little bit. The quizzes worked out a whole lot more than what you have here in this drawing. So that is always an increase level of the model as you increase the level here. And even in terms of going where this goes up, I'm saying that that same dimension here, the project is being worked out where we have the roof. We go back into that page. We have that 22 foot six for the roof. Top of that steel here and just put that top of still. And just make sure that's listed as the roof. 33. Chapter 7: Exporting The PDF: The final thing we're doing for this project is we're making sure that we'll just PDF it out and clearing out is pretty simple. You actually can also export it to something like CAD. What I'll do here is actually export. It might be a little better than the process, but you have the option of exporting or printing. Exporting. Obviously you could do nano level of a trope when a PDF. I want to just say modern project. I will just put that here. And we get our options for export. You can choose a resolution. And we have different options here for which layers. But the fact is every is going gonna be printed to the appropriate type. So we're just going to exporting that. Obviously the last page is going to take a little longer, so it's loading. Now we'll take a look at that. And it came out pretty nice. I have our site plan plans, sort of a shadow study, elevation, building section. The details. You're going of course this add up any information you want to that project to make it more explicit. But in general, you have incredible project here that you can share with others. 34. Exporting CAD: Before we export it to CAD, critical thing is to definitely make sure where we are going to be exporting. Line weights are images because there's a very big difference when it's opened in a CAD program. Prints our site plan. There's no reason why that would be vector. So to turn that to raster, like okay, our floor plans definitely needs to be a vector, has already set up. A shadow study. Leads to, for sure be transmuted into factor, I suppose. Vector and ring, white. Good for. Okay. So some of the style things we'll see what they can show, what it can show. Maybe we'll just do a hybrid. Like it take longer to render. Maybe some of it will be deleted if we're showing it. So now I wanna go to the elevation. Elevation. Makes sure that it's going to be a vector. Some things I'm going to show, that's fine. The building section that definitely can be in vector. The reason for that is shown any other way. Now for our wall sections, we could do is just click on the dimension or scale drawing element. Now this can be a little more unique terms of how it will be exported. But we'll, we'll see what l will do. Because again, it's a little more complex information. So go ahead and just do that. I'll Export DWG that as modern project. So it has like some information here as the ability to export the rest heard rendered as a hybrid rendered. So we're just going to see what it does for this style. Replacing this older drawing we exported it as, and we'll just take a look at it, see how it comes out. So this is a previous way that I've imported it. We're gonna go ahead and open again and see how it comes out. When everything's is more to a vector. It's fun to see how it comes up. One great thing, obviously that this is even another program is it created these pages, which is great. So now I have a cover page. Site plan. I might have to of course, fix that dimension stream. Floor plans again, fixing the dimension string is going to be important. Shadow study came out pretty nice. Elevation can analyze where the fixer, the leader right there. Building section, give a nice can add the fill back. In the wall section. We'll take a look at that. That came up again, I think actually came up pretty nicely is that the deal with the fields and the dimension shrinks because I think that's definitely celebrate the program. But for the most part, yeah, I think everything came out nice. That was very refreshing to see that operating properly. So that's how you can export it. And this is, can be opened in cat or any CAD working program, even Illustrator, to see that project. 35. Conclusion: Congratulations on completing this course with SketchUp layout. You've achieved a great deal by putting in the effort document your project, better, utilize the SketchUp framework further along the design process. If you completed the exercise, you're even further along for your next project. If you have any questions, feel free to share them in the course. These also show your activity for feedback from the class. If you enjoyed this course, please leave a review. I check my truck to page for more helpful classes and Modeling and Design. 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