Create Interior Drawings Masterclass with Layout for Sketchup

1. Class Preview: Do you want to learn how to create professional in DDO drawings for your SketchUp 3D models using layout for SketchUp, would you like to learn all the cool tools in layout for SketchUp to create some quick presentations and impress your clients. Then this is the class for you. In this class, I will show you a step-by-step on how to create a complete set of board presentation and working drawings completely within layout for SketchUp. We will start by optimizing our SketchUp model before we send it to layout. Learn how to set up our plans and elevations and SketchUp before bringing it. Learn how to set up templates and layouts to maximize productivity and create drawings first at various views and change the scales in layout. Learn how about how to use layers, pages, and studies to create different types of drawings. In layout. We will learn how to add dimensions and annotations, like professional interior designers and architects. And then we will also learn to leverage the power of scrapbooks tried in section lens and a whole lot mode that would boost your productivity. And towards the end, we will learn how to set up a Sheets and set it up footprinting all within layout for SketchUp. This fully detailed class is all you need to get started with Leo Fu SketchUp. As I take you step-by-step through the entire process of creating awesome in DDO drawings. And which I'm sure will boost your carrier and business. Now without further ado, I'll see you in the class and say jazz. 2. Before we start : Hey guys, In this video I'll show you what is it acquired before we start diving deep into creating a drawing and layout for SketchUp. So you can open the master resource sheet, but you will find the download section of this class, so you just need to click on the mastery. So she do. And that will open up a Google Sheet which contains all the links of the software that we require for the course and also the link of the exercise files. I'll talk a brief about exercise files so you can open this up. Now each file is around 200 MB. So what you can do is you can work with a single layout master file. So once you reach the sixth lesson of the scores, you would understand the importance of using a single file for the rest of the course. So in this case I'm using sent to load master file. But you can go ahead and start with the basics. For each lesson I ever fail, which you can work with. It would make more sense once you reach those sent to layout part of the course. Then you have the main software which is SketchUp 2021. Node layout comes along with SketchUp. So all you need to do is just installed SketchUp. And it would install layout. What SketchUp as well. It's a fairly simple process to download and install SketchUp. And you can just open this link and follow the instructions on those SketchUp.com website. I'd like to know we'll jump into SketchUp and then show you how I use SketchUp and just the basics so that you can follow the course along quite easily. Once you open SketchUp, you will find a template called baffling stateful layout. Now this is the template I use when I create drawings in Lao-Tzu SketchUp. So I will be showing you how to create this template as well in this course. For now I will open this. No, the only quick change that I need to change the background to white. So I'm just going to go to my style, my default. And then I'll go to Edit. And then you'll get an option here called Background Settings and click here to change the color and make it completely white. So that's 255 for all the values for RGB. But it's okay. It becomes white backgrounds is what I need. You can also update the style. You can also update statement. Now this is something which I missed out in the course video. So keep a lookout for this. And how I use SketchUp is just some shortcuts that I personally use which benefits me as well. So before I use the shortcuts, I will assign them. You can go to Windows preferences, click on shortcuts. You can search for height. I use the shortcut F2. Now sometimes F2 may not work in your keyboard because the function keys, which is F2, F3, F4, is not turned off in the bios settings. In that case, you can assign a shortcut, for example, control one for height. Knight Hall could be controlled to night loss could be controlled three, this is another shortcut which you can use, but in my case I use F2, F3, and F4. Now another cool shortcut which I use is toggle visibility, whichever saying j. Then finally there's X-Ray mode as well, which is why another shortcut which are used as group. If I click on Edit may group, you can see that I've assigned the shortcut G. Now this is previously assigned for components, but I get more groups then components. So it made more sense for me to make this shortcut G. I'll show that to you quickly know if I make a rectangle and just double-click and that would make it a group. Minimizing one step right after right-click and click on Make group. So it LTE model faster as well. Then I can enter the group, push those out. Now if I want to hide this, I can select this group and press F2 to height or you can best. Then you can press F3 to unhide lost and photo and Idle. Now another cool shortcut which I used this Alt W, which switches to pilot prediction mode. So you can go to camera and see that I've assigned this shortcut Alt W. I will also assign a shortcut Alt D, which is for top use FIPS. It goes to the top. You. You can maybe assign that shortcut as well. Just search for camera. You can see that Ira assigned valid projection is all W and standard views. These are some of the shortcuts that has worked for me to help me moderate phospho and sketch up an overall increase productivity and save a lot of time in the long run. Now that's about it that you need to know to get started in this course, I will be using an existing model. We're just part of my bedroom design course, where you learn how to create a photorealistic render of the bedrooms. I'm going to use the same model in this course and place it in the center of the scene, and then create some nice drawings out of that model. You will find all the models and mode in the exercise files. So nothing, nobody, right? So hopefully that'll help you out in following the scores properly. If you have any doubts you can reach out on the Facebook group or on the discard so that we have for this class. You can also ask away in the discussions box for this course. I'll let, I'll see you guys next video. 3. Before we get into Layout - Optimizing Sketchup: Hey guys, In this video, I'm gonna show you how to set up a SketchUp model before we use and bring it in Boolean. This is the model that you've used into a vaccine or complete SketchUp. And Vedic goes for interior design. We're going to use the same model, sort of clean it up, and then send it to layout. I'm going to show you step-by-step how to create the sections and how you can set up valuations and plans. And the most important part of this process is creating proper scenes. I'm going to start by deleting all these sections and then placing them again one-by-one. I'm going to select all of these and then click on Delete. I'm going to unhide. So I'm going to press F4, This one unhide, any additional objects in our scene. And there's some additional walls here as well. So let's go to View and click on hidden objects. Now you are not able to at night because that object goes within a group, so you will have to enter that group and then press F4 to an eye towards. I can also delete this extra VSCO. Need that. Since this is a lab component which is part of the new version or SketchUp. I can right-click go to configure load component. Then simply reduced the open-angle to 0. So that would make it a closed rule. And there's an additional light as well, which comes from 3D. So we don't need this light, so we can select that later, Delete. Now before I modify this room anymore, Like for example, for moving this room. And this is going to approach this model using two awesome plugins. Start off, I can pause the model by going to extensions, cleanup, and clicking on clean. Now, we can use the default settings, which is the scope, which is a model. And then burden used, which is gonna delete any unused lines on objects in our scene. Then we can lead the rest of the settings as is. Click on clean up. You'll also notice that your file size would reduce each time you push the model or use the cleanup plugin. And this helps in modeling and rendering faster with SketchUp as well. You can see how much of a difference it's made. So you can see that the edges are reduced, the feces and reduced and so on. So this is better than the default package option which you can find by going to window is more than NFO. And selecting statistics and clicking on port and used. Oh, it doesn't really make a difference because I've already puts the model. And another useful plugin which are used is the solid inspector plugin. So just go to Tools and at the bottom we have solid Inspector do so click on that. Now you can see that it shows the arrows in our scene and it can fix the model as well. So simply click on fixed. All. Some models couldn't be fixed. What I will have to do is first explored this groups that I click and click on explored dynamic. I can hide the top slab and then I can go back to stool solid inspector, click on, fixed on. So simply select the surface border and it is showing the model where the arrow is showing up. So you can see that this is an area. You need to do hide this and to this group. Then simply draw a line that would make it proper phase. You can delete these extra lines and then again go back to pools. Solid inspector fixed on. You can see that there was an extra Orpheus. All you need to make it a group and delete. Now if you go to Tools, solid inspector, you can see that there's no arrows. There was an extra phase overlap to this model and that is why the arrow is showing up. Like did you fix the model? And now what we can do is remove this extra fluorine here because we don't really need this to show up in layout for scheduled. What you can do is you can make an extra box sauteed, make it a group extended out. An extended to the edge of the wall. This is one group and this is another group. Now we can use a solid tools in SketchUp. So could've view toolbars. John solid tools. Now I use another plugin called Bull tools, which comes from my inside studios. This works equally well. But in most cases, the solid tools within SketchUp should work fine as well. Know what I need to do is click on the subtract tool. Then I need to select the first solid. Then select the second solids. Now you can see that it is not selecting the second solid. We need to make this a solid. So as you can see, if I select this box and if I go to Entity Info and see that it's called the solid group. But if I select this group, the solid group option doesn't show up. So to fix this, we're going to use another plugin called solid inspector, which is free from extensions. Go to Tools and click on Solid inspector to. Now we can see that if I select this object that afford external faces that they need to fix, all you need to select the external phase. Click on tab. And then you can see that this is the problem in the model. You can see that these other two forward phases that we need to fix by pressing tab, you can either fix it manually by simply going and deleting this face or you can click on fixed all that would get rid of those extra faces. And now, if I scroll out, click the Zoom extend. And now if I select this group, you can see that it's a solid group. Now we can use the subtract tool. So click on the subtract tool, click on the first solid, then the second solid. Gilda time for the calculation, and then it should subject to solid peacefully. Alright, so now you can see that we subtract the group. Now I can simply delete these extra. So I'm just going to go to the top view and then select all of these. Press Control on your keyboard. Do a direct selection tool, select any additional intervals. Then click on Delete. Great, So now we've created our flooring as well. Awesome. Now we can do a quick solid inspected check. So let's select the entire model. Laura tools and click on Solid Inspector. There's no arrows, Everything looks good. And we are ready to use this model for layout. I'm gonna see if there's oat to click on controllers to save your model. That's how you can clean your model using these two awesome plugins called cleanup and solid inspector to buy TomTom. It works really well in the real size of your file and it helps in modelling faster. In the next video, I'll show you how to set up the styles in the SketchUp model before we send it into layout. I'll see you guys next video. 4. Setting up Styles in Sketchup : Hey guys, welcome back. Now before I had to lay out, I'm just going to change the template in SketchUp. I'm going to create my own template. And I'm going to use this template for all my sketch up to Layer process because it heads and creating better lines and better drawings. And Leo does well. Depending on which units you use in your country, you can select the appropriate units. In India, we use both inches and millimeters, but the official units for India is millimeters. I'm going to select architecture manometers late to the first thing what you need to do is switch on the default rate. Just go to Windows default. Then shortly it did show up on the right. All you need to do is adjust scenes. Before that, I'm going to delete some million. Comes with every template and sketch up. And I'm also going to approach this model because we have some LEAs materials in it. So let's go to Extensions, cleanup. Click on clean. Then click on cleanup. Now you can see that to seven colors which comes with, similarly has been poached, snow to clean model. And now I can go to my styles and start changing the values which I need full layout. What you can do is you can just go to Edit and you can start with to the ED settings. So we're gonna keep the profile to one. And what this does is now for example, if I draw a box here, you can see that the edge is slightly thick. If I change this to one, it becomes less. Keep the profile B1. And we're also going to change the line color. Because when we draw on layout, we would like to highlight certain objects in layout, in the floor plan or in sections. And if this is dark, we won't be able to highlight anything in the plan. So we can change this to a value of 128128 here. Blue is been a heroin grand DAD that service. Okay. So that would give it a nice dark gray color, which is perfect for drafting and sketch up as well. So it gives it a pencil look, which is slightly off black, sort of red color. And when you want to define something you can simply treats with black. And if you want to highlight something you can place in Becker's with. Next we can go two boxes. The font colors always white and the background is blue. This helps to see which phases are reversed as well. It's always important to have your front color facing the camera because that's where the medulla is going to be applied as well. And keeping the back hello blue also helps us understand which faces are lowest in the motor. For now we can leave the settings as is, and we can change it later if required, and keep the style to the speciated with texture. It can go to the background settings. For the background settings, I'm going to switch off this guy. You can see that we have SKUs. I'm going to switch this off. Now we have a nice clean background. And then I can go to my modelling settings and I can change the section fill color as well. I'm going to change this to one hundred twenty eight. Twenty eight and 128. Nice dark color section field, which we can change later if required, you can make it completely black. If I go to Tools section plane now and make the section can see that the section is gray in color. Now the, the lines a little too thick, so I'm gonna change the section language to one. Now it becomes more thin and which would look better in SketchUp as well. That's all we need to do in styles. You can go ahead and add tags as well. If you wanted to add it to your template, say for example, walls, windows, boards, and so on. So you don't need to keep creating tag every time. But for this workshop, this should suffice. And also you can notice that this circle has come on the days icon, so I need to click on this and that would update the style as well. You can either update the style or you can also create this as a separate style. So you can click on Create New Style. And then you can rename this to drafting for layout style. So this would be saved here. And then click on the blue button to update the status. Now I can delete section. I can delete this box. I can package the model one last time. So click on Extensions, clean up and clean it last settings. Then all I need to do is go to File. Click on CFS template, this drafting style layout. You can also give a description. This blade consists of the appropriate style readline with drafting in SketchUp. You can also set it as a default template. So click on Save. Now when you go to File New or let say if I knew from template, you can go to my templates and then you can see that we had the drafting style for layout. You can go ahead and create another style for the interest amplitude. But four millimeters, we are good to go. The next time I open SketchUp, you can go to more templates, my templates, and click on drafting staff. Now if you want to make this your favorite template, you can simply click on the Load button here, and I would set it as a default template. And the next time you open SketchUp up your resume. Finally, I've set up the template, you're not before that I will need to copy the model into this model or you can change the styles in the existing model as well. So I'll show you how to copy it correctly. So let's open SketchUp. I can copy this, so let me just select only the model. I don't need to select the 3D components. So I've selected only the model. Also makes sure that all the objects in the CNS scene, you can see that everything in our scene. Now I can select this, make a DAC selection which selects all the objects in the scene. Then you can either right-click and click on Copy, or you can also go to Edit, click on Copy. Then simply go to your new file called Edit, click on Paste and please give it a bit for the process to happen. Now you can see that our model is bought in perfectly. We can also check the dimensions. Is 152 MM, which is perfect for our layouts. Seen is when. Finally you can see it opens with a clean model. There is no scenes or anything setup. The next video before I set up the scenes and everything, I will set up the template and layout as well, so we will jump into layout in the next video. I'll see you guys in the next video. 5. Setting Up Templates in Layout: Hey guys, welcome back. In this video, I'll show you how to set up the template and layout for SketchUp. So to get started, I'm going to open layout so you can just search for Leo 2021 and open it up. It comes with the SketchUp Pro version installed into your system. Let's allowed for SketchUp also comes with different templates and you can choose your own template as well. So let's click on More templates. We can select no plain paper for now. You can see that there is no a11, a22 sales. So we will create that size in load for SketchUp. So let's start off by selecting A3 landscape. The first thing what I'm gonna do is change the layout to A1 size, which is finite, the four by 841 MM. Most architectural forms and interior design firms use A1 or even easier to sometimes. But in most firms they use A12 print drawings and mode. The first thing what you need to do is go to File and click on Document Setup. Then you need to go to paper. Then you can change the size of your beach. You can see that it comes with A1 and easy to say yes. Or you can also create your custom size by giving the height and width. Since in the eye can see here what I'm going to select A1. That's fine. 94 by 841 limit. I'd also like to see the margins in my layout, so I'm gonna select Margins. I'm going to change the color of my margin, so I'm just gonna make it dark gray. And it's skipped that dynamic from DOT borders. So you can see that we have this nice clean margin. Leonato SketchUp. Let's click on Close. All we need for the layout. Now I show you the various tools that comes in layout. So we have the basic tools which is lying, arc, rectangle, circle, polygon and so on. They also have the dimensioning tools, for example, text enabled dimension, for dimension views the shortcut D. So that would switch the dimension tool. And then of course the spacebar for the select tool. We also have table, what we hardly use table sometimes when you want to clear scheduled and so on. Then we have it is to add a stuff in layout. Then we also have stateless, which simply samples are certain style and then it helps you apply it on other new objects or dimensions and so on. Split and join refers to lines which you would like to sort of joined together. So for example, if I draw a line this way, then I click on Split. Then I can split the line at various junctures. And I can also join them by clicking on the join tool. And then joining them together. You can see that becomes is one thing. Then of course you can add different pages and not to view. Start our presentation, diversity within layout. All right, so first thing, what do you need to do is check the shape style. You'll find it in the default under color. So we actually have style. Now if you don't find it here, you can go to Windows and you'll find all these options here. You need to switch them on in the show up in the default view. So for the shapes that we can use, the default settings, which is stroke 0.5 dashes, which is a solid line. We can obviously change this later if we need to change it to a dashed line and so on. Destruct style is for various around corners and so on. But I hardly use this in my drawings. And then we have the leader lines, which is the start and end arrow. We can give an arrow for the Start arrow. So for example, if I go to my label, now you can see that we have an arrow there. If it is a straight line that goes away. So make sure you give an arrow and we can give the size of the arrow. We can keep it to a board. This works well. A1c sheets. And we can also change the size of the text. So you can go to style. And we can change it to switch to 721 BD, which is generally used in most architectural forms. And it's like a standard as well. So it was changed the size to maybe 14. That should suffice. Also, I will be changing the end arrow and keep it to the plane. The next time you select label, you can see that though options change. We can then look at our regular textile as well. So let's go back to the Select tool. Let's go to textile mill and make sure to select this 721 BD. You can go ahead and select any other forms as well. But in my case I'll be using 721 BT, and I'm also gonna select the size of 14. So now if I draw text, you can select the text Julio. You can just give a random index. Then this looks gonna be the size which will come as default. It'll always read from the last setting that you made for your text. Agreed. Now these exercises is small because the sheet of course is big. Susan a onesies. And when you put in date, it will be readable and works well for the drawing as well. Next is dimension, so we can select the dimension. Now, before you click and create a dimension, you need a change and settings first, because after you click and then select this and change it, it would apply those settings only for this dimension. So make sure you select, activate the dimension tool and then you make the changes yet, the next time you create a dimension, it would read from these headings. The first thing what I need to do is change the stroke. I'm going to keep it to 0.1. And I'm also going to change the star data architecture. Standard dash line there. We have proper name, slash, which is standard for most architectural drawings. And we can also change the size to five points. Five points. Now we can go to dimension style. We can change the position of labeled on the dimension so we can change the center. And even for the angular dimension, we can keep it a horizontal. Then we can go to our scale, and we can keep the length millimeters. We can also keep the position one MM. We don't need to cool bind 0 because one MM books in most cases and you can go up to a thousand and two thousand and ten thousand, eight hundred and so on. These are settings that we need. So now if I create my damage and you can see how it comes, becomes pretty neat. And now if I go back to my Settings and click on dimension again, it will read from the previous settings that we made changes to. And then it'll create your dimensions. Now if you don't want to display a unit, you can disable display units. So the next time you create your dimensionally it comes with other units. Let's keep the units on because it helps us confusion. Know if I draw the dimension again, it comes with the units. You can also of course changes, takes time. But in our case, we are going to be using the sues 721 BP. Next is that angular dimension. So you can click on the top Danio and click on Angular. Now we can change the stroke to 0.1. We can keep the start at o and narrow as the default error than G In the size of your grade. So maybe to five or even four. And then we can go to dimension style, make sure you keep it in the center horizontally. Finally, we can check our textile as well, which is 21 BD. Now if I create and aggregate this way, you can see that we have a nice proper angular dimension. These are the default settings that we can use. Now before I go ahead and save this template, I just want to quickly show you that. For example, if I'm creating a dimension, let's say I create a dimension. Let's go back to the linear dimension. This is the dimension that I created. And if I select this dimension, Let's see, I changed the values here. Let's keep the sea 1515. Now this would affect or lead this dimension. So the next time I create a nitrogen, it wouldn't read from those damaging lead from the default. If you want to change the default, all you need to do is select the dimension, change the values here first, and then create the dimension. Select the dimension tool. Change the values here first and then create the damage it. So now if I change this, say for example, 2.8 again, and then I create my damage and you can see it comes as thick. And the next time I create a dimension, it's gonna read from that. Simply select the dimension, change the value your first, then create your empty. The next time you create a new damage, it will always read from the default settings. I hope that made sense. Let's now we can see it this out as a template. I'm going to delete all of these because I don't need them to show up in my template. Now if we're gonna be using differentiates for your company, you can go ahead and create those sheets here this way. Like so and then add your text and so on. So this way you don't have to keep adding them next time. But since we are going to be using a plain template, this should be fine as well. Let's go to File, click on Save as Template. I'm going to call this drafting template plane. And then select my Templates and click on. Okay. So the next time you open layout, which is going to closely out for null violates it. You can see that in PHOs appeal, if you want the temporary show up as if as a favorite, you can simply hot it and then it would show up in the stock of your scene. Click on drafting template plane, and we have our proper A1C is temporary. It also makes sense to add those size of the beach in your template name. On the next video, I'll show you how to insert a SketchUp model into layout. Then start setting up our drawings. You guys next video. 6. Create Plans and Elevations with Sections & Scenes in Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back. Now before we send our SketchUp model into Layout, going to show you how to create the scenes and set up our plans and elevations using sections in SketchUp. I'm going to start off with the plan. So let's go to Tools. Click on Section Plane, and I'm going to create a section plane on top. Gonna call this the furniture plan. Good idea to name your sections and your scenes as well. Let's resolve here. I'm going to select this section and then use the Move tool and drag it down to create a section. It know what I need to do is setup the plan view. So we always use the parallel projection mode or the view. So you can go to camera and enable badly prediction. Or you can best Alt W, which is a shortcut, I use switch to pilot prediction mode. Then after that you need to go to the top view as well. So you can go to Camera standard views and click on. You can also press Alt T, which is the shortcut I use. Once you've gone to the top view, it's a good idea to create your scene before you are a bit on, make any changes. And the SketchUp model, just go DOC and Z0. You can maybe zoom in a bit so that you can see the plan better using the scroll button. And then click on the Plus button to create your scene. Once you've created your scene, it's a good idea to rename your scene as well. So you can either rename your scene here. I'm going to call this furniture plan. You can also go ahead and give a description and all of that. You can also right-click here and click on Rename. If you want to rename, you'll see I've created my first view. Now if I orbit out, I want to go back to that view, I can simply click on furniture. Awesome. Now the next section which I'm going to create is R4 elevation 0. Again, you will have to use section planes. So go to Tools. Click on Section Plane, and apply your section plane here. I'm going to call this section. I'm going to select this section and then move it in such that it's right in the center of the scene and I can see the bed. Now, another way to align the section correctly is simply by selecting the section like Lake, and then you can click on Align View. So that's another way to align your section or you can do it the traditional way, which is by going to camera standard views and clicking on either the left or in this case it's going to be rate. Then just sort of zoom in. I click on the furniture plan and click on Add. So now I'm going to rename this. So again, right-click on s2, renamed. Let's call this section aa. Cool. Now let's add another section. So now you can make a copy of this section as well. So you can select this section plus M, the movement breast control to make a copy. So let's move this section. Now if you want to flip this, you can use the Rotate tool. Sort of come to the center of the scene. You can also place the doll pedagogy so that you lock it to the blue axis and then rotate it by 181 to rotate it to 180, you can just move it in. Then right-click and click on active gut. You've activated that section. I can maybe move it in a bit more right in the center of the scene and then I can right-click and click on Align View. Now let's create section B. So right-click and click on Add. Then rename this. I'm going to rename this to section bb. Now we need to add another section. So the standard is add the section. Let's go to Tools and click on Section Plane. And we'll add it this side called the section CC. There's okie. More than. And then select the section right-click and click on Align View. You can also hide the bed if you wanted to shoulder bit. Let's first create the scene. So I click on section BB and click on Add. Then I'm going to rename this section. So right-click Rename, call this section CC. Now let's create a section on this side. So let's go to Tools section plane and add a section here called the section DD. There's OK. Then more than a bit. Then you need to right-click and click on Align View. And then you need to, via your scene, you can either do it here, ARIO. Let's do it here. Understand. Call this section. Dd. Great. I can also create another section on top. Just to show the reflected seating plan. You can select the section plane, press M control to make a copy and move it up. Make sure you're moving it in the top arrow Axis. I can just move below the slab and then right-click and click on active gut. Now if the model is a little too slow, when you create these sections, you can delete some of the models that are placed in the scene and then it'll be faster for you to work as well. So I have activated the section, but it's not really cutting anything. So I'll have to move it down a bit. So select the section, move it down. So now you can see these four lazier. That's all I need for this room. And then I need to go to the top view as well. So you can click on Align View. Then I can add my RCP plants. So right-click, rename this goddess RCP plan. Now let's say for example, you do not want to see the furniture in the reflected ceiling plan. You can select all of these four meters. Then right-click and hide, or you can also press F2 to hide objects. We need our ideas. That laptop. Once you've hidden it, you need to right-click and click on update. It'll create a bonus view, maybe isometric view of the plan. So let's go to furniture plan first because I want to see the objects again. And then what I'll do is I'll deactivate the section, cut and scroll this side so that I can see the foam better. And then I will hide these walls, trim details. And then I'll create an additional view. Right-click and click on Add and rename this call this isometric view. Now has view looks great, but then DES, section planes look a little too distracting. Now you can either select all your section planes one-by-one and then hide them. Odd what I would suggest is that you create tags for all of these objects. I'm going to go to Stack so you can see that we do not have many tags. If you're gonna use layout in your workflow, it's a good idea to start using tags because it helps organize your model better. So I'm going to add it back called the section planes. Then I'm gonna select all of my sections. Then to assign this tag to the section plane, I just need to go to Entity Info and change the tag from untagged Section Planes. After you assign the section plane, you can simply click on the Eye Tool under tags. You shouldn't really click on the Julio because this is the height button. So let's go the tags and click on the Boolean. Now it will hide those section planes. And it's very important that you right-click on isometric view and click on update. The next time I click on isometric view. You can notice that our Section Plane tags resolve. Similarly, I can go ahead and assign different tags to different models. So some useful tags that you can create as walls, windows, then maybe slabs, furniture, lights, gardens, and so on. Once you've created your tags, you can click on Name and then it will sort of sort those tags out. May the nomenclature. Then you can start assigning these objects to those tags. So I'm gonna select the Windows, which is called a tags and click on Windows. I do not want the windows to be seen in my isometric view so I can hide the windows. Then right-click on isometric view and click on Update. Similarly, these gardens, select the gardens and then change the tags to cottons and you can hide the gardens as well. I click on isometric view and click on update. So this is good enough with isometric group and it can also hide these tags. It's a good idea to either assign the main group to your DAG or you can also enter the group and select these individual lights and assign the light to the light stack. Now if I hide the lights, you can see that the nested group also heights denial. I click on isometric view, click on update, and I'm done creating my scenes. One last DAG which allowed is decor or Wallach. So let's create an array called his wallet. Then I'm going to select these objects here and assign this to Wall Art and hide this. So let's update the isometric view we have done. Now if you want a proper isometric view, you would need to keep it in parallel prediction mode. Because if you change the perspective, we have sort of a perspective isometric view. But most isometric views have those perfect 90 degrees. You can see those perfect 90 degrees and 45 degrees in the scene. So this is a good view to keep. And then right-click and click on update it. So we set up the scenes and V are ready to go. In the next video, I'll show you how to import these scenes into layout and then start creating your giants. I'll see you guys in the next video. 7. Send to Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back. In this video, I'll show you how to import your SketchUp model into layout and then get started with the drawings. There's two main ways to import your model into sketch out the best way is by simply going to file and clicking on sand to layout. And then this would open layout and then place your model automatically within layout as well. So this is the best way for you to bring your modelling to layout. Then once it opens layout, you can select your template as well. As you can see in the previous video, we created our own template. So let's go to my template and click on drafting template plane. And now you can see that we've bought in to sketch out view into layout, and it's placed the moderate perfectly as well. The other way to bring in your model is by going to File and then clicking on Insert. And then make sure you change the file type or SketchUp. Select your sketch our file and then click on Open. And that would open the sketch modeling to layout as well. Now, one important tip that I would give you is do not make any sort of dimensions in SketchUp. You can make all the dimensions in layout. And also make sure you save the file with a single filename, which we're going to use a layout. In my case, I've called it send to layout master file. So you can notice that I made a mistake while naming the file, so I will have to rename this file. You will also see how renaming this phi will have an effect on layout. I'm going to quickly close this file, renamed the file, and then open it up. And also see how renaming a file, the main master file, has an effect on layout. Now you can see on layout that the file is being read from a filename called sent to layout underscore master file with the WE. But we need to relink it back to the file which we've just renamed. What we need to do is click on this link here and go to our main file, which is sent to layout master file, rename category as well. And then click on Open. Now you can see that it's reading from both cardiac file. Make sure you SketchUp file that you're using in layout is the correct file. And also if you make any changes to this file, it would start updating and layout automatically. Now for example, if I make a rectangular just to show you how it changes in load. So I made a rectangular room and then I go to File and click on Save. Now if I go back to Layout, you can select layout and then click on this Update button. You can see that the box appears. That's something which you need to keep in mind, is that this fight will be used throughout the entire drawing phase of the project. And it's super important that you maintain this filename as well. Now if you can guess, you need to make a copy of this file and keep various past versions. You can simply go to File and click on save as copy as you can see that it CSS file one. And if I click on Save, gonna retain those are general file images and do layout master file. That's a quick dip in case you want to keep versions of your filing because sometimes the main file crashes and throws a boxplot Darrow. It's a good idea to keep versions of your SketchUp file is wet. So now I can delete this box because I don't need that. And then see if adult so Control S to save. Then I can minimize this. And then I can select the model on the view port IO and then click on update. And then the box goes away. That's all you have to do. And then we can save this layout file as well. So let's go to File Save. So there's the first time I'm saving this file. We're going to call this exercise the lesson names. So S2 layout finish. That's how simple it is to bring your modelling to layout. 8. Adding Views and Scales in Layout for Sket : Let's say for example, you want to change the view. So you can select this view port here. Then change the view to jump land. Now w changes as well. And in case you want to change the scale, you can select the viewport again. Jane, the scale from current scale, which is a random scale here. Do a scale that works. Let's try. One is to do 40. That's a little too small. We can create our own scale as well. So you'll have to open them, click on custom, or you can select any scalier. So let's click on custom. These are the rating scales that we have. We can create our own scale as well. So let's say for example, you want to create a scale called one is to 25. I'm gonna be me in this correctly as well. One MM, 25 MN and call this one has 225 scale. Then your water can do is change the units to MM. Mm in the paper is equal to 251 amendment paper is equal to 25 MM in actual units. And then click on Add custom scale. So now it comes in the bottom here you can see one image tool, 25 million skin. Click on Close. And then we can assign that scale as well. So let's go to our scalier. Select one, MM, one is to 25. We've assigned the correct scale. Now you can notice that my background is sort of dark v. Now this is not what I want. I will need to update the background settings in the sketch of you. So let's go to our sketch of UDL. And then let's go to Styles. Make sure you're using the drafting for layouts daily, click on edit, and let's go to Background Settings. Now you can see that the background color is green. So let's click on this. And let's drag the slider to the right to make it completely white. 255 two hundred fifty, two hundred fifty million press Okay. Now you can see that DO background changes. Let's click on update your bid style with changes. And this would update the style for all the scenes. So if I go to the other scenes, you can see that it updates for all the scenes. If you want to create a new style, you can click on the add new style here. But this is the actual style that I need for layout. This is something which I missed out in setting up those SketchUp template video of this course. So make sure that you give the background white. And then you can click on Save. So Control S to save. Let's go back to our layout here. Select the viewport, then click on update. All these settings fall under the SketchUp model part of the default. Now you can see that we can see the background better. You can see that the viewport extends all the way to these edges. Before you sort of reduce the size of this bounding box, you need to make sure that preserves scale on the sides switched on. Because if it is switched off, then you can see that the view doesn't come the correct scale. So I'll make sure you click on preserves scale on the size. Select the view again and change the current scale to 25. Or maybe even one is two in 2020, looks good. And now what I can do simply drag these sliders to the left so that it sits well. Then move to the corner. Replaced one view. And in the next video I'll show you how you can place the other views as well. How to copy these views, aligned the views properly, add some text and so on. You guys next video. 9. Copy Views and Create Clipping Masks in Layout: Hey guys, welcome back. In this video, show you how to copy and align views and layout. In the previous video, you learned how to bring in yarn model, change the scale, and also adjust viewport to copy it to a very simple process is to waste or copy. You can select the viewport and then you can best control key on your keyboard or the Option key for Mac users. Keep pressing and holding Control key and then you can move it. You can also hold shift, move it along a straight line. Then you need to release the most key first, and then deletes the keys on your keyboard. Press and hold the Control key on your keyboard to make a copy or the Alt key on the Mac keyboard. And then click ones. Then when you're dragging it down, you can hold shift as well so that you drag it down along the straight line. And then you can release the key on the mouse. And then you can release the keys on the keyboard as well. At least them together. And then you'll be able to make a copy. Once you made it a copy, you can also change the view. So this is a floor plan. Maybe you can add three additional sections in this page. I'm going to select this and change this to section to section BB. Then I need to make a copy again. The other way you can make a copy is simply where pressing Control C and then pressing Control V. This would copy the view port on top of the existing viewport. Then simply drag it to the right. So when you're dragging to the right Hold shift, that you drag it straight line. So sometimes if you don't release the mouse key, it will move it down. So let's Control Z, that again, control Z to undo. And then make sure you hold Shift properly on the keyboard and then release the mouse key first, and then it would move it. I'll use released the most key first and then release the keyboard keys. I'm gonna change this to section DD, section CC. That is. Then we can add an additional view as well. So gonna move this to the left a bit. Then again to copy, I can press Control. You shouldn't press Shift together. You should press control first and once you start moving it, copying it, then you hold Shift on your keyboard. Then when you want to place it, you can release the mouse key first. And then it would place the model. And then this would be section DD. The reason why this is overlapping with this section is because of our viewport extensively left like this to the left. All the better way to do it is by creating a clipping mask. So all you need to do is first draw a rectangle. So click on the rectangle tool, and then I'm going to click on one inch, then click on the second edge. Then you will need to go back to the Select tool, select this boundary edge, and then select the viewport is valid. So press Control key to make double selection. So I'm gonna select the viewport you selected board and then go to Edit. Simply click on Create clipping mask. That would get rid of all the additional elements outside the section. So now I can just move it back. Similarly, I'm gonna do that for all the user. Let's draw the rectangle, select the rectangle, and then the viewport, and then go to Edit and click on Create Clipping Mask. I'm going to also create an additional view because I can see that I have enough space in this page. I'm going to press Control. Then move this to the left, which F2 blockade prevented. Release the mouse key and then release the keyboard keys. Then I'm going to select this and change this to RCP plan. Now obviously I would need to extend our clipping mask. Let's just create a new clipping mass. So if you conduct angle, please let the endpoint and at this point. Then select the two. Good edit and click on Create clipping mask. All right, So now we've created all the views for our page. And then next video I'll show you how to align your views and then we'll jump into creating ideas. I'll see you guys next video. 10. Align Views in Layout for Sketchup: Guys, welcome back. In this video triode, Elaine, some of these views. Because as you can see that the arrow on top and down, so it's always a good idea to sort of align them. And that will help compose the sheet better as well. Do elaine the views you need to simply click on the Blend and then you have something called the gripper. You just need to drag these group of tools to the corner. Now it's placed there. And now when you drag it, it is sort of snap to the edges. It's annoying nodes perfectly aligned to that corner there. And then value moving it. I'm gonna lock it to the line by pressing the Shift key so it keeps it straight. And then went to the site. This as well, select section holder, gripper. Then drag it to the corner. Once you've dragged it without clicking anywhere else, you need to click on the section plane and then sort of move it to that edge. And then while moving it, you can hold Shift so that it locks it to the axis. And then at least the mouse key. And you are done. Let's do the same for these views as well. Let's select this section now. Select the gripper, moved to the corner. Then move this to this corner, and then sort of move it to the right. And finally dispute. You can see that when I drag without clicking on the clipper, drags the whole view. So press control Z, police like the gripper to the corners. Then drag your section. I'm snapped it to that corner, then move to the right. It's always important that you release the mouse key first and then the keyboard keys. I'm going to press Control Z to the right. You can notice that if I released the most key, it doesn't snap to a straight line. I'm going to hold shift at least the most key first, and then you're good to go. Now if you want to align this view to build this plan here, you can draw a reference line first. So click on this line and click on that edge. Sort of create that, and then click the second time to create a reference line. Then you need to select the viewport and drag the gripper, the corner there and then simply move it to the right also in a moving hold Shift so that it locks to that lane. And then you can release the mouse key and then the Shift key on your keyboard. Now you can see that it's sitting perfectly below the plane, so I can delete the reference line. One last step, which I will show you how you can manage these use in the viewport. So for example, if you want to select these two viewports and move to the left, nor instead of moving it by dragging the most, you can do that as well. You can also press the right arrow keys or the left arrow keys and then it wouldn't match by 0.5 MM. Now if you wanted to nudge at a greater distance, you can hold Shift and then press the right arrow key. And that would notch by phi MM. You can't really change the default values of the nudge because it's inbuilt. But that's a quick tip in case you want to nod stuff in SketchUp. I'm going to drag another line here. So I'm gonna create another line here. Select this viewport, the group or to the left. Then move this to the left. No, it is sitting under that section perfectly. And then Canada to the right a bit by pressing the right arrow keys. That's a quick tip. Then let's move this to the left as well. There's enough gap. Maybe I don't really need to align these sections. This edge, I just moved to the right. Great. That's how you Elaine views and also move them in low pH. In the next video, I'll show you how to create the layers and then we start creating our dimensions with you guys next video. 11. Add Layers in Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back. In this video tutorial behind the layers in our layout with SketchUp model. On the right, we either default. In the bottom, you'll find the earlier. Let's click on Layers. And then we can start adding in our layers. I'm going to add in my layer, and then I'm going to rename this right-click rhenium, going to call this furniture plan. Then we have our CB plan or our lighting plan. I click Rename college AA, section AA, BB. You can also double-click CC. Non-gaseous. Additionally, as you can press the minus sign here to delete them, then double-click and press dd to create your last layer. The reason why I give these layers like this is because now in case I create dimensions and all of that, I would like all those dimensions and plan and everything to sit within the same layer. This viewport should fall under the furniture plan. And then when I hide the furniture plan, it would hide the viewport and all the dimensions as well. This way, I can keep the sheet more organized. Now what we need to move these viewports to the character layers, you need to select the viewport right-click and then go to move to layer and click on warning Japan. Let's do it for the other views. Let's move all the way to positive correct legals. And now if I hide any of these, you can see that it starts tiling. This works perfectly when we are organizing our sheet. Now another important tip is working on the current layer. On the correct layer, you can see that we have this pencil icon you click here, it changes the actively or if you're working on the furniture plan, make sure to select the financial plan first, and then start drawing in your dimensions and text. This is a quick video into creating layers. In the next video, Toyoda, that x dimensions and more. Let's see you guys next video. 12. Using the Text Tool in Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, In this video I'm gonna show you how to use the text tool in layout for SketchUp. So back to the text tool. You can either press D on your keyboard, which is the shortcut for decks with dissimilar to sketch up as well. You can click on the Text tool. Now you can just simply click and then start typing in your decks. For this case it's gonna be furniture, layout plan. Then click on the SEC Julia. Now if you want to increase the size, you can select the text and go to your text failure. Then we can start increasing the sizes. Make it bold. You can leave the font to suicide and 21 BP. And that's how you create your text. Now the next time you create a text, so I'm going to press D again. You can see that it goes back to that original text. Says, if you want to change the default exercise so that the next time you create a text reads from the default exercise, you will have to change the settings first and then create a text box. I'm going to click on the texture and I'm going to change the settings. I'm going to keep it around. Let's check what are the size of this. So this is at 28 bold. I'm just going to go back to text. Select 28 bold. And now if I create a text, you can see that it comes in properly section A-A. Then if I create again, so let's click Once. You can see that you can create that text again. There's another different type of text which is the bounding box deck. So if I click on Next and click and drag, and I've created a bounding box. This is simply a bounding box. Now if I click onto the Select tool, you can see that it's within that box. And if I drag this would be limited within the bounding box. Now if you do not want a bounding box, or you can do is right-click and click on Make unbounded. This way, the box will adapt to how you type. If I type the type and the more I say the box, the bounding box with. Now if I go back to the Select tool, you can see that the boundary box adapts to that text. That's the bounding box. Now there are few options for the text as well. So if I select the sticks, you can see that we can align it to the left, right, and center. So you want to see how would align them? I'm just going to make this bounding box we go. Now if I click on the middle, it's going to align in the middle. I click on that date. It's going to align to the right. And if I click to the left, it aligns to the left. Phase, make it big, sort of down. You can also anchor the sticks to the top, middle, or bottom. So you can select the ANC option, yachts ankle Center, Anchor, bottom, anchor dot. We keep it to the center, bring it back and align it to the left for now. Then another cool feature of the text tool is sort of aligning all these texts together so you can select all of these decks. And then you can right-click, click on Align. Click on horizontally. Now we do Elaine horizontally. You can also align it vertically. Now for example, if I drag this here, if I pull this press Control macro copy and drag this year, I made a copy of that again, this called the section CC. Now I can select these two texts and then right-click, click on Align, Left. Now you can see that text LANs perfectly below that text can delete this texture. Now let's say for example, you want to create a superscript for whatever reason, I'm going to enter this group. I'm going to give an example here. So this is to know if you want to create this as a superscript, you can simply select the x86, go to Text, baseline, and click on superscript. That would be a DOT superscript for you in case you want to mention the meters, square meters, and so on. You can also sample text. Now for example, if I make the sticks bigger or smaller, so to 20 maybe. Now if you want to sample this text, what you can do is let's click out, click on the style icon, select the text you want to sample and then apply it on these texts. Let's press undo because I want the text bigger and says, let's copy this to the bottom. And you can also control C, control V, and then move it down. That's another way. Let's align this and select all of this right-click, align and click on horizontal. And let's call this DD. This is gonna be actually my right. I didn't either double-click to enter the group and then select the text and change the name. Let's call this ACP reflected ceiling plan. One last thing what I need to do is I need to assign these texts to hepatic layer. I'm going to select the text, go to right-click, move to layer, and click on furniture plan. So now if I go to Layers and switch off furniture plan, you can see that it hides with the text. Similarly, this text is like click multi-layer ACP. Now, if you can see that I can hide each of these layers and it hides with the text as well. So it's very important that you draw the text in the right layer, or if we've drawn it in the right layer, you can also move it to that layer. When we draw our dimensions, I'm gonna be changing the layer to the calculator and then draw my damages. The next video I'm gonna show you how to use the dimensions and then add some dimensions and also some additions to our dr. In the next video. 13. Pages in Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back. Now before we add the dimensions, I'm gonna be talking briefly about the pages here. So we're going to use pages to create various versions of the drawing. We can have the presentation drawing, which is this. And we can have the working drawing, which is all the dimensions in your plan and elevations. And we can also have a cover page and so on. In this case, since I already placed the views, I can duplicate this page. It can right-click and click on Duplicate. Now we have page one, which is this. You can see that the hashtag is next to page onto v out on page one. And if you want to rename this page, you can right-click and click on Rename. I'm gonna call this presentation drawing. And then I can call this the working right? So I click Rename, call this working by the cell. You duplicate a page and the selected page is what you're gonna be working on. For example, this is working drawing with the selected. So if I move this texture, then if I go back to presentation drawing, you can see that the text has gone back to its original position. So make sure you highlight the correct page and then start working on the drawing. I'm going to just press Control Z to bring back my section text. And then here we have something called including presentation, which basically means that when you go to View and click on Start Presentation, drawing is not included in the presentation of your views. Then finally on the top right we have the list view and the thumbnail view. List view helps in sorting out your drawings by name and thumbnail is of course, giving you a glimpse of water's present in each page. And finally, you can also add blank pages. So select this as the last drawing and click on Add. So it adds below that. And if you want to delete, you can simply click on Delete select pages. Let's undo that. Nolan's paid seven, I'm going to rename this right-click Rename call this isometric view. I'm going to add my isometric view in this page. Second, go back to working drawing, select any View Control C, and then go back to isometric view and then go to Edit and click on paste. Or you can also press Control V paste in my view and I can change this view. Now, let's go to Sketch Up model had changed this from ACP plan to isometric view. Then I can also select the View right-click and click on release clipping mask so that I can see then DO model. And then I'll move it to the right here. So this looks pretty cool. I can add the render isometric view as well. Simply go to File, click on Insert, then select the right. By labor, you can click on insert the bill as well. And now we can see that we have a rendered view of this file. So click on this and click on Open. I can increase the size of the sticks. Now you can see that it doesn't increase the size uniformly. You would have to hold Shift so that it uniformly increases the size. How cool is that? If you only increase the size of this model here, you need to simply increase the scale here. So let's go to one is to ten, maybe. It's a little too much. Let's keep it around 20. It looks good because we can add the dimensions, annotations, and so on. Now there's one limitation with pages in layout, and that is, you cannot have different sizes of pages. You can have only one size for each project. In my case, I'm working with the A1 size for this project. If you want to make an A3 size, then you would need to start from scratch and create new project and started an API sites for your pages. That's the only limitation with layout. A workaround with using multiple paid sizes for layout. Maybe by using A1 size and then simply creating the A3 size boxes, placing stuff inside that box. Then later you can go ahead and use an adult PDF cropper. Or you can use a PDF cropper to sort of crop that drying out. But ideally, I would suggest that you start off with the correct pizza is in your project. I hope this gives you a brief into pages. In the next video, we'll tackle our dimensions and start creating awesome blanks. So I'll see you guys next video. 14. Changing Styles in Layout for Sketchup: In this video, I'll show you how to create different styles for your different pages and note the presentation drawing will have a different style compared to the working drawing, isometric view and so on. You can see that on the right we have the different pages, so I'm gonna select the working range. And this is why we are going to add the dimensions and so on. Now a few things before I start adding the dimensions is that I do not really want to see these section line 0. I will have to go back to my SketchUp model and then hide the diamond Shouldn't bag. So let's open SketchUp, the master file. To simply hide the bags. You can start at the furniture plan. You just go to tags because I've added those Section Planes, door, Diageo. I can have them sexually in that way. I click update, section A-A. I did there. I click Update. Similarly BB load for each of these scenes. I agreed to remodel this section planes. We can add those section plane on the line directly within layout using the scrapbooks, which I'll show you later in the course. Now I can see if this or Control S to save. Then I can go back to Layout. Let's go to Sketch Up model. You select any of the views and then click on the circle button. Now you should see the section lines disappear in a bit. All right, so now you can see that our plans look much neater. The section lines are gone as well. It would go for the other drawings as value. That's one way to hide your section planes in case you want to hide your section planes in all the drawings, in all the pages as well. The other way is by selecting the model, going to sketch a model, and then we have diaxial. Then you can show the section plane for certain views. You can see that now the section plane shows up here. Similarly, if you want to enable this section paying for certain views, then you can enabled tags from yours as well. But if you want to hide it from all the views, then you would have to save it in the main model. So let's hide it. I would also like to make this land sort of black and white. I can go to style and then we have different styles. So in the model style we just have drafting full layout style, which is our mean style. We can also select some other styles, but I would recommend that you do not select it from here, but you change the style in SketchUp because I sort of change the line width and so on. What I lose it, I will duplicate the drafting full layout style and then save it out. So let's open SketchUp again. Let's go to styles. Now I need to go to Edit and click on Settings. And then here we have the speciated using Dexter. And we have also display in shaded mode, which makes it sort of bright. We can also select Display and hidden line mode, which looks pretty cool, which is a black and white mode. Or we can select wireframe. Wireframe doesn't really work. Maybe we can select the wooden frame mode for now, are displaying hidden mode. And then what I'll do is I'll create a new style. So I click on Azure, so it sort of adds a number there. So Daphne for layout style one, I'll call this drafting for working drawings. Step. This is the style which I've named now I just need to click on the Update button there to update for, just for this scene, I forgot to the other scenes. You can see that it retains the old style, but we can change the style in layout as well. Let's go back to furniture plan. Now we can see that I didn't update the style, so it wouldn't really update on the scene. So you would need to change the state and so you can change the style from your, let's go to Home button here so we can see drafting for working drawing style and drafting full layout step. Let's select working drawing style. I click Update, and then save this out. Then let's go back to Layout, select this plan. Then click on update here. You can see a new style is being added. The view changes to that style is well, now if you want to change the style for the other views, you can select these views. Can also press Control to select multiple views. And then change the stylus we're selecting the state. Let's say we change the style. Let's go back to pages and click on presentation drawing. Now I want this to be in color, so let's select this view. Let's go to SketchUp model and selling, drafting for layout style. So now we can begin creating our dimensions layout for SketchUp. So this is a good Turiel into how you can create different styles for different pages in your drawings. In the next video, I will show you how to create dimensions in layout. 15. Dimensioning the Furniture Plan in Layout for Sketchup: Guys, welcome back. Now finally we are going to start adding some dimensions to our drawing 0. So let's go to working drawing first. To start creating your dimensions. You can click on the dimension tool or you can press D on your keyboard as well. It would activate the dimension tool. Then you can simply click once and you click the second time. And then you need to click the thought time to create your dimension. Now you can see that the dimension is ideal for A1, say the size excise looks good. But if you want to increase the size to change the divergences as the default, Let's open textile and dimension style and let's select the dimensions. Now you can see it's set at ten, so maybe let's keep it at. Now let's draw our diamond shape. That looks better. Let's give two-dimensions this way, which is the length and the width. And then if you want to match this nitrogen, you can, you can use the style icon, click on the dimension and apply it here. Now you can see that increases the size. Now, this dimension is linked to the wrong point, ideally an interview or drawings, it's linked to the inside edge of the wall. You can simply drag that endpoint and then place it to the corner there. Similarly, it as well. Let us do it for this dimension. Let's click that corner and place it an endpoint. These are the groups that come for each dimension. Alright? Now if you would like your dimension to be not horizontal but along the dimension, then you can click on Align. Then you can see that the damage and follows the dimension layer. Now I can draw the setting out for the windows as well. Let's move this language line on top, and then let's create a dimension again. It's gonna be from this point. This point. Sometimes you may not have selected the right endpoint. You will have to select this edge and drag this end point to that corner there. Now both of them seem to be sitting directly on top of each other. This is 175 of them. Now let's click on the dimension tool again, and then click on the model and point always, make sure you snapped to the model endpoints in your model that we click that and then this model endpoint then moved up. Then we need to click on that model endpoint. This. Finally, the inside endpoint. Always make sure you're clicking on the modelling points. That looks good. Maybe I can just move this to the top of it. I always keep switching between dimension and Spacebar. That's how you work and sketch up as well. Now, one important tip, which I forgot to mention is that when you're drawing your dimensions, always make sure you're drawing the right layer. So let's open layer 0. Now you can see that we've drawn then the ACP plants or for high the ACP plan at heights, these are averages as well. So let's select all of these dimensions. Right-click, go to move to layer and click on furniture plan. Now you can notice that when I was doing that, I ended the SketchUp model. And then what happens is I sort of misplaced the view as well. So it's moving around. It's always a good idea to lock your viewport. I'm going to press Control Z and then Control Z again so that I'm not inside the viewport and press Escape. Now I just need to select this viewport, go to my SketchUp model, and then you'll get an option to lock this viewport. So if I lock this and I can see that it has a red bounding box. And now I won't be able to and build this view in paper space. This way, you can avoid double-clicking and entering your viewport. One thing which I missed was that when I noticed this dimension, it's actually 224th amendment 188, which is wrong. It's supposed to be around 4 thousand MM. Know the reason behind this error is because I haven't snapped the dimension to the model and bind. If I draw another dimension, I'll click on dimensioning and snap it to the modelling point. This model endpoint. You can notice that the size is 4470, which is the cardiac sites. The correct this what you can do is you can either delete it and create it again. All you can select the dimension and then go to your dimension, style her, and click on auto scale. Now we need a Jane low two scale from one is to 11 is to 20. And now you can see that it matches the damage and on top. But ideally, I would suggest that you try to snap your dimensions to the model endpoint. So I'm gonna delete those dimension, then move this down a bit. Then I'm going to delete this dimension as well and then create another diameter, so plus D. And then select the model endpoint. This modelling. So now we have the correct damaging. Also we need to change the orientation. So let's click on a line and we are done. Now I'm going to shift this x down a bit to select all those texts plus shift and down arrow key. And then I can draw my dimension 0. So let's click on D again, and then click on the modeling point. To this model endpoint. That's around 10000000067. You can also move this text to the left ear and do this by double-clicking and then select the text and move it to the left. Or you can move to the center as well this way. But let's move to the left a bit. Then let's continue drawing our dimension. So plus d again. And then let's click on this modelling point. This point here. Then from this point to this point. Finally from this point. Finally from this point to the inside edge of the one, which is around six inches. This looks good. And then I can do an overall dimension as well. Let's click on D again. Select that endpoint. Then select I've selected both those endpoints. Now it is two MM shot. So there's 44704468. Sometimes you may want to adjust it manually as well, so you can say until this group and then get 4470 SPSS. You can give it manually as well. In case it's not reading Docker images, select this dimension instead of more than, not more than the entire damaging because it moves that way when we're selecting the center grip and then moving it in. And then finally we have a point here. I would like all my damage that will be aligned. So I'm going to play D and then change it to align. And then I create the damage. And again, now it comes in. This is 3754 and there is a difference of three MM. I may have to endogamous group and give value of d Phi sine Phi seven SPSS. There are some limitations and you were working with layout for SketchUp, but that shouldn't hinder you from completing your plan, especially if it's your presentation. This is a setting out plan of the windows and the doors. You can go ahead and also create another copy of this floor plan, of this financial plan, and then set outdoor furniture as well. So maybe you can set out the furniture for the bed, for the devil and so on. But for now this should suffice. And then I can go ahead and create dimensions for all my other plants. Again, you can notice that I've given the dimensions to the wrong layer. So if I hide, can see that inherits all of those dimensions or select all these dimensions. Right-click, go to click on Multiple layer and Glaucon furniture plan. Now if I hold for any Japan, everything gets it in. For this. 16. Dimensioning the RCP Layout : All right, next is ACP layout. We can make the ACP blended actively earned and start creating our divergence. Great. So now these damaged to the command correctly. Now you may have noticed that the dimension of snapping to all these lines Z0, which is coming from the floor. So it's a good idea to hide the flow in your SketchUp model, or you can assign the floor to a DAG as well. Let's see if this is assigned to any tag. So let's select those SketchUp model code to sketch a model you. Then you can see that we do not have any flow tags. So let's open SketchUp quickly. Let's select the fluid. Then it's created a tag called his floor. Then we can assign this to that tag. So let's go to Entity Info and assign it to a float. So now let's see the result. Then let's go back to as SketchUp and layout for SketchUp, select the viewport and click on the link button your update. And now the tag should show up under tags. You can see the Florida shown up so you can simply switch off the fluid. Once I start the floor, it looks more neat. Then I can start creating the dimensions for my lighting data. Some principles that architects follow when they create the dimensions for certain plants. Now, in this example, which is a bad example ever created, dimension on top, bottom, left, and right. Now there is no real need to short on the top and the bottom. Because I know that this same dimension would reflect here, wizard, I'm going to delete this, and then I'm going to delete this. So it's a good idea to minimize the number of dimensions you add which don't make sense. And also how architects read dimensions for a certain room is now for example, if this room is 4470 by 3759, let me just create the text as well. Now what this dimension indicates that the first direction is the length and then the second one is the width. So it's always linked into width. When you check flow plans drawn by architects, they always start with the longer dimension or the top damaging first in the first position and then the second dimension. Please make sure you follow this principle when you create your own drawings and don't replace it by giving it 3759 by 4470. That would be confusing for architects and contractors as well. It's always follow the first long dimension, which is 4470. This will be the length and this will be the width dot dot. Now I can create my lighting and dimensions as well. So I need the lighting to snap right in the center of the slide. So I will draw some reference lines. I'm going to draw one line this way, press Escape, and then draw another line this way. Let's do it for all the lights. Now I can draw my divergence so I can click on D again. Then I can select any point here. Then select the midpoint. Seven-sixths. Select this midpoint. Now you can see that this dimension is wrong because it's 123 of them. Now the reason why it's reading what, 23 MM, because it's reading the papers scale. You'll have to change the dimension scale for this. To select the dimension, go to damaging styles, select autoscale and change this to owners to 20. This is the correct size. Now let's go back. Finish this direction. Now let's draw from the top and the other group and it moved that dimensional adult. Maybe like this, then contribute co-creating a dimension. This dimension as along as well. So let's match using the sample state, select this nurturing and apply it here. Change the scale. Then we continue creating a damage in lighting design. When you're placing lights, it's a good idea to follow the X to X rule. I'm going to do if these text double-click and name this as x. This is gonna be two x. And then this is going to be X. Again. I can also hide this floor lamp. You do not want to see the flow lamp. Or maybe I want to see the floor lamp in dashed line. I can draw a circle, loose edge, select the circle, go to shape style and change this to dump it. Then go to sketch, view and hide this. Assign it to furniture tag. So let's go to tags. You can assign it the light stack as well. Odd, it would be better signage to the foliage or tags. So I'm going to assign this to furniture. Once I've assigned it to fund check and see if it didn't go back to layout. Right-click, you need to update this model, but it wouldn't show up in SketchUp model because it's locked that I click on Lock and then update the model. It's an all we need are simply hide the tags. So let's go to tag. So I'm going to move furniture. And you can see that the furniture grocery grid. Now, this would be x as well. So let's call this x. Let's also move this back to the center. And let's call this x. Now what this denotes is that x is the distance from your, which is from this edge to the center of the light. Then to double the distance of this distance. And finally x, so x two x x. And then here we can rename this as wha, wha, wha, what the contact that does is that the entire distance is 4470. And then you would divide that by four. So x two x three for x plus two, x plus x is four x. And then you divide this by four and then divide the space into four points, four lines, 1234. And then you would equally space the lights on 0.1.3. And then in-between would be the double spacing. Hope that made sense. Similarly for this line as well, he'll take this entire distance, 3759 divided by four, and then split, split that entire wall into four equal parts, and then place the one later and one light here, which will come on the second, fourth part of this wall span. That's a quick lighting there for you guys in case you want to space your lighting properly in the room. Now in all this light is in place properly in SketchUp and that's why this dimension wouldn't make sense. No, because this damages are bigger than this dimension. So in that case, you will have to go back to SketchUp, divide the lines equally, place your lights correctly and then bring it back to Leo. There's no way to the right lines in Lille, two left to do in SketchUp and then bring it to. You can also notice that I have an extra box which I don't really want to see. Instead of going to sketch up and then hiding this box and other quick hack which you can do layout is simply using the rectangle tool. So select the Rectangle tool, click once and click the second time procreative rectangle. Select the rectangle and go to your shapes failure. And we can keep the field as white. And also we can select the stroke and make the stroke as white as well. So that is no failure yet. So let's add a fill as well. The fill is added as well. And now you can see that it covers that box perfectly as invisible. Alright, since, since we created everything in the right layer, Let's go to layers here. And if we hide the SEP plan, you can see that the ACP layout height schematically. Sometimes you will notice this yellow triangular, which is sort of an arrow. So to fix this, you need to simply update this model. So select this model, right-click and click on Lock. Then select the view. Go to SketchUp model and simply click on the link. That would get rid of that at other. Then I can click on Lock. Let's hide our furniture plan is when you're done creating our ACP plan in the next video to outer diameter, outer sections, which is a fairly simple process. So see you guys next video. 17. Dimensioning the Sections in Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back. In this video is show how to damage in this section. The first thing we need to do is activate the right layer. So we'll start at Section III. And I can hide the ACP plan. Now, I will create all my divergence in this view, but in this layer. So publicity to activate the damaged gene pool and then it starts clicking on the motor points. So you can see that model edges also work well. Let's select the model edge and let's create an entire height of the room, which is set at 2467. You can also go ahead and show the slab thickness if you lake, but if it's interiors, you don't really need to show the slab thickness. Now we had the lighting yard as well, so you can maybe set out the divergence for the lighting if required. But usually interior designers set out the dimensions for the interior furniture. We can start by setting out those squatting year in this case, which is around 125, which is five inches. Then we can set out the furniture lizard, maybe the bedside table. And I can also set that I mentioned from maybe the height of this side unit here. Let's create the dimension from a modern edge to the height. That's it. 1739 of them. So let's move in. Always make sure you drag the gripper, not Android origin. Also, make sure that none of the dimensions overlapping. That would be very unprofessionally. Look at. This looks very neat written on other dimensions overlapping. And you set it out correctly as well. If there are some furniture damages, you can set them out separately inside. Maybe I can show the warlord from the bottom of the wall art, blue bottom off of fluid. Then select the dimension. Let's go to Shape Styles. And let's add a fill color. You can see that now damage in overlaps that furniture so you can read it average and courage gizzard. So add a fill color in case you want to add that effect of the damage. You know, I don't really give a diversion on top of the section because generally you can read that I mentioned from the floor plant, but maybe I can give the height of the curtain rods. Let's give the height of the curtain rods set up to 3367. Alright, so now I'm going to quickly go ahead and dimension notice sections which would be like sort of in a time-lapse. And you guys can see my workflow as well. Alright, one last step, which I would give is always make sure you draw a separate floor. Any odd interior drawings, because most interior show the floor thicknesses URL, we had a slab and then we have the actual float, which would be around an inch thick or an old ten to 15 of them tick. You can manually place a rectangle for now, like this. Then move to they just this way. Let me just move this gripper and then move it to the edge. So you could manually draw floating this way if required, and then change the shape, style or shape fill that is, you could do it this way as well, but ideally, I would suggest that you do it in, Sketch Up, draw a fluid, and then bring it back into layout. I'll let, so that's a quick tutorial into creating the section dimensions. In the next video, I'll show you how to add annotations in layout and then annotate all of these objects are for teachers. And as an exercise, you guys can go ahead and annotate or divergent the rest of these views as well. I'll see you guys next video. 18. Adding Annotations in Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back. In this video, I'll show you how to add annotations in our layout model. Now you can see that this arrow shows up sometimes when I reopen the layout file where it's unable to update or re-link the master file. I'm just going to select this file and click on railing. Now you can see that I'm able to relink the master flame. I'm asked to file was last saved on number six. So I'm gonna select this and click on open. Now that has gone away. So click on Close. Now this shows up because it's still unable to re-link. So right-click unlock, select this view. Then just go to SketchUp model and click on this button. You same goes for this use on lock this click on that arrow goes away as well. So now we can lock this back. Before I create the annotations, you can see that my sheet kind of looks full and there won't be any space to either annotations value validations is simply the label icon, the OS you can just click once. Now for example, if you want to label those, you can click once here. Click the second time and the third time rupee or label. Then you can call this whatever you like. This will be a floor lamp. Then presto selector. You did stuff in layout. But sometimes when you are working, you will notice that there's not enough space to annotate everything in this page. What I'll quickly do the Google pages and I'll duplicate this view, this Piaggio, I click duplicate. Then I'll call this, rename this call this plan, section a and B. This is going to be renamed as section CCNE dd. What I need to do now is from plants section a and B and neither delete section C and D, I will unlock these views. Right-click. This is not locked, and then I will select c and d are. I click Select, click on Select entities. Then as simply click on Delete. I can delete this as well. Now if I go back to Section D, C, and D, Now in this view, I'll delete the financial plan, all of these. I'm going to select BBN, then shift select all of these layers. Right-click, click on Select entities and click on Delete. Now this is unable to D because it's locked. So I click on Lock and delete. Now if I go back to plan, there's more space to add annotations. I'm gonna move this section down. I'm going to select, right-click select entities. Then you'll notice that the grip, so I can move this to this corner. I'll also draw a line before I move the stuff. So let me just draw a line this week and then right-click select Entities. And then after de-select the line because I don't need the line. This is now I can select all my objects here. And then I'll find the repo and move it to the corner. And now I can move this down. More daunted snaps to the line and then release your mouse. Sitting in perfectly. Now let's see what is part of section A-A. You can see that something is part of section. We need to right-click move collected as well. We can fix that later. Now what I'll do is I'll go to BB silicon trees. Then sort of nods this to the right. This is the box or some rectangle that is part of EA. So you can delete that. And let's select AAA. And we can move it to the left, to the right a bit. Let's do that for this ACP layout as well. So select SEP, plan, select entities and attributes. Now we have enough space to give our annotations. This might happen when you're nudging it. You don't nudge it with the plan and that's because it's locked. So right-click unlock, then select the entities and then Niger to flip. Now let's go back to Section C, C and D. D. Let's right-click select the interview section CC. You need unlock the view first to right-click and lock, and then select the entities and move it up. Similarly, DD as well. Let's select the entities. Then move to the left. Alright, perfect, So now we can start adding annotations. So let's start with plan. To add annotation, you can simply click the label icon. You can also assign shortcut for labeled. Let's click on the label icon here and start labeling stuff. So this is gonna be our studied able motor gonna delete those dimension because I don't need that. Because I have it on top and the left. Let's go back to the label. Let's double-click scholarly study table. Do CO finish. Usually we give the table and the finished as well. Let's label our whole tree or quadratic. Click once, click the second name. And let's call this holiday quadratic refer.com. It's a good idea to be more specific with the objects. It'll help the client understand where these models and objects come from as well. The drug version. And then it's a good idea to Elaine these conditions along the straight lines. So let's select this right-click and click on left. Now it's perfectly under each other. Also, when you create labels, make sure you don't overlap these labels like this. This is not a good way to label your drawings. This is called wooden floor. Planks. If you hard creating it like this, make sure you just select this dimension and sort of move that down that's not overlapping. Then select these two and right-click and click on left. Let's move this up a bit. Can also an object. Similarly, you guys can go ahead and label the drying. Let's label our bean bag keyboard. We need Finnish. Also when you've labeled it and it's not sitting buffer, you can sort of move it up. Make sure there's not overlapping each other. Then select all of these. Right-click go to align and click on left. Also, you noticed, I just noticed that I've assigned it go wrong tag. So right-click, go to move to layer and click on 40 Japan. Make sure I select the right vaguely odds violent than continuous signing my tags. Right? So you've sort of assigned most of tags. You know, if you want to show this, this part of the room, maybe you can show the tags, decide. But ideally you would like to keep all the tags in one side of the drawing so that makes it look neat as well. Let me just click on this, select this, and call this gardens in low plants. Now I want to go ahead and did the rest of the plan. I will switch on the timeline so that you can see my workflow. And as practice, you guys go ahead and irritate the rest of the plan and the speech as well. Now, you can see that this annotation is sitting below this plant. Firstly, I needed generally offer such as TB plant. Then select these to click on, move to layer and select SEP plan. Now you chose up on top, doesn't show up. You can also select this right-click, go to arrange and click on bring to front. Now, a quick tip I would give you as now if you're gonna be using the align tool a lot, it's a good idea to add this. Here on the toolbar. Go to View Toolbars and click on Customize. Then go to command. And let's search for alignment. You can see I didn't dare line and then simply click this and drag it. Drag it and just make sure this dark line comes here and then place it there. It's also a good idea to assign a shortcut to your annotate labeled command. So let's go to Edit Preferences and search for label. You can assign any shortcut LSR in D. This has been assigned to another shortcut. Assigned the shortcut W, because all the other shortcuts are assigned to some other tools. And now I can simply press W and start labeling my drawings. Now you can see I can select all of these and simply this. Now I can go ahead and indeed the rest. Um, no, I noticed that there's a lot of blank space in this page. So what I do as good of isometric, we're going to select this model Control-C. Go back to my page. And I can also select isometric Leo. Just create a new layer, call it isometric layer, and then paste it here. I can go ahead and add traditions with this as well if required, but I like it as it is. And this 3D section perspective sort of explains the sections as well. So let's not add a date these you can do annotations and dimensions. For example, if you click on divergent plus D, then you can sort of start creating dimensions for these as well, which is pretty cool. But let's not do it for this speech because I like it. I would like to look neat. You can leave it like that. Let's keep this page as value. This doesn't extra that you add annotation. In the next video, I'll show you how to use patterns so that we can sort of add those wall sections into one. Because I don't like complete dark Waldo. Because generally waltz sections or different annotations. Show that to you guys in the next video, I'll see you guys next video. 19. Adding Patterns in Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back. In this video, I'm gonna show you how to add patterns in our section that plants so that we can spruce up the drawings a bit more. So the first thing what I need to do is draw my rectangles. So it can click on the rectangle tool. And then I'm going to click from one corner, maybe this corner to this corner. Then I'm going to select this rectangle. Make sure it's snapping to the edge. And then I'm going to select this rectangle. And we can go to up pattern familiar. I've already added a button called bleak common phase. If you don't find this, if you click on the Home button, these are the burdens in your document. If you don't find these, you can just click on the drop-down, you go to all patterns. So these are the various patterns you can select from. So let's go to material symbols. You can see that we have the various symbols here. Let's select temporary common phase. Now you can see that it's assigned on this rectangle. Now the reason why it's showing up as dark gray is because it doesn't have a fill. Let's go to our shape style and let's add a fill. Now it comes in with the fill as well and no pattern. So you can switch off the pattern. We can switch it on from the shape style dialogue box in your default. Let's create another rectangle. So let's select the rectangle. Now, since I want the rectangle to have the bedroom as default, I'm going to select peritoneum and then I draw my rectangle. Will also need to have a full-on. Let's select the rectangle and select Fill. You can add, I don't know, in India generally we have a different pipeline for our wall sections. Let's go to pattern fill. And let's maybe say this is our pattern that we use in India in most of the sections. So you can use this as well. Let's match this. So let's select this NPS. Great. We can also change the section 12 to black. So let's create another rectangle this time from the top to bottom Rate. Select this and let's switch other pattern. Let's add a fill and this would be completely black. You can add a nice dark filter. You can also copy this. I'm going to press Control C, Control V, and then move it down and make sure it snaps right in the center of the section. So this looks more neat once we add in that black section box. Now if you want to see the black section box and all your sections, it doesn't really make sense here. I'm adding it for each section. Then we'll have to change SketchUp model style settings, or we can change it here. Let's see if we can change it here. Let's go to SketchUp model. Let's select this model. Got Australia. This is the graphing view style. There's no way to sort of edit to style in layout, so you will have to Edit Sketch Up. So let's open SketchUp. Let's open the send to layout master file. Now we need to go to our style. Styles, go to Edit, and then go to modelling settings. And let's select a section fill and make it completely black. Now we need to update this style. Then it would update an older dissections. Good. Let's say there's also Control S to save. Then let's go back to Layout. Select our viewport endings, click on update to update it. But what I noticed was that early in the presentation running because the updated only one style. So after our Beta other style as well. So I'll quickly do that. Maybe I don't need to have it does stick this black sections in the presentation slide, but we can keep it in the drafting style. So let's go back to SketchUp. Let's change the section filled back and update. Then I'll have to select the right styles. So I have this style here. And let's click on Edit, click on Section field, then change the color to black, dragging it to the left. Now I can see the style, of course, save it out. Then go back and select any of the views. Let's go to plant section this time, select this view. Let's go to Sketch Up model and update. I'm going to give it a bit to update. Its abated, but I can't see the changes. Let's select the viewport. For some reason it's added a new style, just style one. So let's just select the first style and then it changes. Uploaded bad. Let's go page to select these two viewports. Change the style. Then it should change your as well. Great, So now I can just quickly add my patterns, remaining sections. So let's go back to page one, and then let's add our pattern. Let's select the rectangle. When you orbit on top, you can see that it changes with the Move tool with controlled me copy and move to the side. Now before I overlap it on section BB, I will move it to the right layer. So select this rectangle. Good mood, polio, BB. Change the grip point to this edge and then move it to the corner there. You can also not just to the right. Let's copy this to the other side. That's based in perfectly to now I can just copy this Control C to copy. Then I'll go to the third wedge, control V to paste. Let's move this tool CC and then copy it. Control C, control V, move it down. We don't move it outside of the viewport and move it to the right layer and then move it in place. One last thing, what I lose, draw a rectangle around the box because you can see that there's a gap here so it wouldn't look nice and the drying, so the selector right layer first select the rectangle. You can switch off fill. Then simply draw a stroke. Let us draw the rectangle first and then change the settings. Draw this rectangle, select this pattern, fill. You can see that the lines sits in perfectly. That's what I need to. Let me quickly draw that for the rest of the sections. Drawings are looking neat. The next video I'll show you how to add sections using our scrapbooks. Since you guys next video. 20. Using Scrapbooks in Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back in this video to hold, you use scrapbooks in layout for SketchUp, to add more details into our drawings. To use grab books, you will find it in the default tree. Let's close these drop-downs. You can find it in the India. So these are scrapbooks. Now the first thing I want to do is create a separate three in the default way to add scrapbook. So let me just go to Windows and click on new tree. Then It's called the scrapbook. So let's call this scrapbook name and then press Add. New Order does is in the bottom you can see the default layer. And then you can see this scrapbook. You know, I can simply drag this down. And I can see a bigger preview of my scrapbook on the right. Scrapbook is simply a collection of videos drawing assets that you can use in your drawings. You can create your own scrapbook as well. And scrapbook is simply a layout file. So now for example, if I click on Edit, you can see that this is a phylogeny and 2016, they haven't really updated any of the scrapbooks. So let's click on. Okay. You can see that this is simply a pH and layout. If I go to my default layer and click on pages, you can see that this is drafting symbol one, this is two, this is three. And these are simply groups. And other groups, they are different lines. So you just need to create different pages. One is to one format and then save it out. So when you're saving it out, just click on File, Save as scrapbook. And then it would save it into the default scrapbook library, which is the second option, C Users and this folder. If you're creating one scrapbook, you can do that. You can gain multiple pages, add your objects, or whatever it is that you use on a daily basis, and then save it out as a scrapbook. Let's close this. I click close. Now we can start placing in a scrapbook into our sheet here. Let's see what we can place. So definitely are not signed. So let us just simply drag that in. And once you place your you can increase the size by dragging it this way. Make sure you increase it uniformly so that stays uniform. So hold Shift on your keyboard and then it gives the size. Now we need to copy this to every page in our layout. You can right-click, click on move to layer and click on, on every page. Now what this layer does is, now if I go to some other pages here, you can see that it copies to every page. Layout. That's pretty cool because you don't need to copy paste on every page. If you have any objects which are there in every layer, you can paste it onto every layer page. So the NADH sign would be the only object that would be added to every page. So let's go back to plan and then let's add, start adding Us section lanes. So let's activate furniture plan. What I'll also do is I'll go to SketchUp model, select the viewport, open tags, and I switch on the section plane just to see where the sections are cutting. So you can see we have one section now. We have another section. Then we have two section line 0. Let's go to our scrapbook. Let's go to assemble three. And let's drag in our section lines. So let's drag this. Then just place it here. Then we can end up this group, select this line, and sort of move it up. After that, we need to place our section huddle as well. Let's place this and let's move in place. Let's move reported the center. Then move to that line there. We can also enter this group and move this damage to the left a bit. That looks good. Now we need to these are size of our section so we can press Control Alt and Shift and increase the size a bit. Then we can enter this group. This would be section A-A. We can enter this group called the section a, and this would be on page number two. You can also include the size of the sections. So maybe just change the dimensions, change the text style. Keep it around 14. And this is one. That looks good. Then press Escape. Let's group these together. So select those two sections, those two objects right-click and click on Group, notes, a single group. Now we can copy it to the other side. Move it to the right a bit. Copy to the other side. Intersection lines actually you're just going to move it goes to the section line. Then I will need to mirror it to the other side. Or what it can do is enter this group and this group and then mirror it this way. Sort of a manual process. Not do parametric and layout for SketchUp, but that's how you can rework layoff or SketchUp. This would be section BB, that should suffice. And then finally, this has to be shifted over to the side. And we love to also this, this side, section a and section BB. Ideally they have to be together. But since the section lines of a friend, I'm not going to be changing it. So you can sort of overlap these lines and then give a line in the center and indicate this as AA and this is BB. So it's one single circle. This arrow would indicate that a is the state and BB section bb is the state. Now let's quickly create the other section. So let's go back to scrapbook and add those action lines. This will be added here. You shouldn't really drag these because this would make the entire section deck. So you'll have to enter the group first, select this line and then extend it. Then let's drag this will do same position and do the group. Select this line and drag it out. Now we can place our sections. We can place this one. Mood in place and other group change the page number, the section, I think this is Cc, can also include the size. Select this press Control Shift Alt then gives us the size of the text as well. If you notice that you need to keep changing the sections every time you create a new project, it's a good idea to make these sections as a template. So the next time you can use the font sizes that you've you generally use for your projects. Now you can notice that we have this down arrow symbol, which basically means that the label is clipped. So if you do not want to see this down arrow symbol, you can just go review plotting symbols and switch off clip text. I can also add some people in the sections which would make it look a little cool. So let's click here and go to people. See how different people. So let's select translucent and then we can start dragging. And our people also make sure it's in the right layer. So let's go defaulted this section aa, select section a, and then we'll have to move this as well. Then I can sort of move it in place. Ads that cool effect to that section can add some other people as well. So let's go back to scrapbook. It comes in with the right scale. So you can see that I want us to 20 and all the other skills. So let's select one is to 20. And let's drag in this move to the right layer. Then place it in place. Snap point to the bottom. And then there's more modern than Florida. Make sure you select the right layer and then move it in. Or you can also move it, move it to the right layer, and then paste it in place. Gives us a nice scaling in the drawings. That looks pretty good. All right, so that's how you use scrapbooks. You can do a whole lot more with scrapbooks. And I will be sharing a lot more content on how you can use scrapbooks effectively. And hopefully I will be sharing a template with you guys soon as well, which you can use for your projects. I like to. On the next video, I'll show you how to add shadows, fog, and some final touches and print out our drawings. So see you guys next video. 21. Shadows in Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back. In this video, I'll show you how to add shadows in your drawings, which is grateful presentation drawings. So let's go to our presentation diagonal. Before I do that, you can see that text align property. So let's select this. Right-click, align horizontally, then moved up a bit. These upper bit as well. This looks fine. Maybe it can just call this an isometric view. And that should suffice presentation right? Now we can add some shadows into a presentation drawings. Let's select the first view. And then let's go to SketchUp model. And we have something called ethics. You can open ethics. Let's start off by adding a shadow. We need to change the settings of the shadows. Let's make it around 530 PM. Five thirty, four thirty. To figure out the right settings, it's a good idea to go back to your SketchUp model and see which settings or swelled. So I'm just going to go back to my SketchUp model here. Then I added a new shadow and sort of check the settings as well. So it's 12:44 PM at 14th of June. So let's change that in layout as well. So divided 44, it would take some time to update and change this. We've added the correct date. You can also switch on fog if you like. Sort of adds a fog effect, but you don't really need it. Let's just keep shadows on and leave the US's. That looks really cool where we have a shadow and it's not applying on the ground ends within the floor. Let's just fix this view because I don't like it to be faded and not in color. So let's go to our sketch, our model. You'll go to Styles, drafting for working drawing style. Let's switch off The shadows. I don't need the shadows to be seen in this drawing. Let's switch out the shadows. That's a quick video into using shadows in layout. I don't really use it in layout for SketchUp. For drawings, I generally use it only for presentation purposes. That's mostly within SketchUp. In the next video, we'll create our sheet layout, then set it up for printing as well. You guys next video. 22. Creating Sheets - Using Grids & Shared Layers in Layout for Sketchup : Hey guys, welcome to our final few videos. Now in this video we'll create our sheet layout that looks a little better. So what I do first is I'll switch on on every page because I want my sheet layout be applied on every page. And then I'll sort of move my nod sine to the corner. Then it's np dot title, Barrio and bottom. So first thing what I want to do is I have my margin, yeah. And when you export this drawing, it'll come with this margin. But I would like the modern to be a little thick. So I'm going to click on the rectangle layer, and I'm going to click on this corner, but I'm not able to click on that corner. So what you can do is you can right-click and click on Grid snap. And then you can see that it snaps to that corner there. Since it's set on fire, I'm a more dynamic and from this edge, the bundy edge, select that. Then go to this corner. No, The reason why you're not able to snap and this corner is because the grid settings is set at phi MM. So let's change the grid settings quickly. Let's go to File and then click on Document Setup, and then we have the grid settings. So we can show the grid. You can see that this is the grid. We can change the spacing from dynamism to one MM. Now we can snap to that corner. Let's click on Close, and then let's click on rectangle again. Now you can see that it snaps to that corner. And it should snap to this corner here as well. Could we created our bottom? Maybe we can make it a little more tick to select this. And let's change the stroke to one. So now it's a little more tech. You can also change it to five maybe. That looks nice, a nice thick border for our sheets. And in shopping every page as well. How cool is that? You can switch out the grid now, you can right-click here and say John height grid. In this presentation drawing, I can delete the ACP layout because it's not really showing anything. You can delete that. And then I just go back to default to is select everything in section AA and more to go left a bit. Select section BB to the right. You can see that didn't move with this. So I'll have to select all the entities, silica entries and more than please. Also make sure it's aligned correctly. Then move this on top a bit. I'll finally paste my isometric view. The isometric views, a nice stretch in all of the pages. Heads compose the page better. Monitor. Its just more than you. Click. Send the ACP plants. So we'll have to move it to isometric. And we love to change the scale as well. So let's go to SketchUp model G and the scale to maybe you want us to 30. That looks good. Then I'll create a rectangle. Make sure that rectangle is in the correct layer. And select the rectangle, select the View, right-click and click on Create Clipping Mask. Select Edit Mode up a bit. I can also select the text. Moves up, sticks to the left a bit. These, these copy this to the left. Move to the right. Isometric view. That looks much more composed. Now I can select all of these, this mode up a bit. Club in our space for me sheet. Now we can start creating our sheet and also add some text and so on. So the first thing I want, I'm gonna do is we're gonna draw a line here. Let's click on the Line tool. Let's go to our default tree and go to layers here. It's in the isometric layer. Let's change that to on every page. And then let's draw our line. This way. This line will show up in all the other pages as well. We left are just the sheet, but let's finish presentation sheet first. Maybe I can bring this a line down a bit. That looks better. And I can give it a thickness as well. Let's go to Shape state and give it a thickness of five. So nice to claim. Now, you may have noticed that when I placed it on the, on every page layer instead of as science this lane to all the other pages as well. How does assign this? There's an option next to Laos called control whether layer is shared across all pages. For example, if I create a new layer and if I don't design, you can see that it changes. The layer is shared across all pages and you can also toggle between the two layers. Now since I've already applied some objects on this layer, if I toggle this, you can change what happens in the contents of this layer so you can keep the contents or lifo this page. You can also copy the contents to all the pages. This is something which has missed out in the Leo video of the course, but know, you know, later I'm going to delete this. Let's keep it on NADPH layer as the active layer. I'm also going to select this arrow. Select this line here and go to shape style and change it from an arrow. Simply straight. 23. Creating Sheets - Using Autotext in Layout for Sketchup: Now we can start placing our texts. Now instead of basing normal text, I'm going to play something called an auto text. Before I play store detects ammeter, check the document setup. So let's go to File. Click on Document Setup, VR. We have something called the architects option. When you place these tags in your text, this text will show up and it makes it easier to populate your text as well. I'm going to turn the details for these tags here. You shouldn't be changing the tag, but the auto text here, you can select the first one which is address, and then start giving an address. I'm just gonna give it a random number. Then I'm going to change the author name. You need to select the text and change the name here and not here. Let's select company name. You can leave the rest of the settings as is. Now, we can start creating our text. Let's select the text option, so plus D or select the text. And then click once I call it project name. Now let's copy this down and call this location. Then we can go on additional lighteners. Destroy language here. Also the line I don't like the settings of this lane. Let's select the Line tool and change the default settings. Then draw the line. Looks better. We don't get to do shoot sulfates. And then I can maybe draw a line this way. Let me select this text and then copy it to the side. Make sure you're making a copy by pressing Control key on a keyboard and holding Shift as well, to draw it on the same line, not to use the Auto Text. Let's check the other text tag. Let's go back to the document setup. We do not have a project name here. In that case, you can create your own or to text as well. You can click on the Plus button here. I'm going to call this custom text and call this project name. Then I need to assign a custom tags. So let's call this project chick bedroom. Then close. Now if I undo this text and give the bag which is project name, and then select out by using the Select tool. You can see that the exchanges, we can change the size of this. Let's go to our textile and make it slightly bigger. Then let's copy our location here to the left. Let's select these two and align it to the left. Now we can change the location. So the auto text for location is address. Let's check the spelling. It is case sensitive, so you have to get the first labor as capital a. You can see that that does comes in perfectly, fits in one lane non-ionic, bring it to another line. Can just go to Document Setup, select address. Then please enter your clothes and then you can see that it comes to the next lane. Similarly, I can draw, I can copy all of these texts along the line, copy it to the side, and then I'll give the date. Then change this to the date which did publish. Then select the tool did published. And I can see the date comes in perfectly as we can get the scale as well. So let's check the scale. There's no scale, so maybe you can add an auto protects for scale. With auto text. What it does is if you change the scale here, it will update in every page in your project, so that's super-helpful. It's also matched the specs. Select this and match it to the same size. Copy this line to the side. Then finally you have the drawing number and the project number. Let's select all of these texts. Then copy the design. You cannot use the line as well. Maybe just remove the line height will need to slain called the drawing name. Drawing number. Page name and page number. Can also move this to the right a bit and told is not sane. And maybe just delete this not decks. I just wanted to note sign there. Now we can adjust this a little better. Let me delete all these lines and move this to the left. You can use the Nudge tool, pressing and holding Shift on your keyboard and then copy this ln over center. You can see that this line SRO snap to the slain. It's sort of a polyline. So if you want to remove this lane, that problem is by deleted and beliefs are the line as well. You can use the split polio and then split it at this corner and then delete this lane. That's all you need to do. Now we have a nice neat drawing in our scene. Let's maybe move this in a bit. Select all these and move them. Moving. You can go ahead and add additional details. You can create your own template as well. So now since I've created this into on every page tag, it goes, goes onto all the other pages as well. So as you can see, we need to move, shift these on top. So let's do that quickly. Select all the objects in AA and BB and nudge it on top. Looks good. You can see that the drawing name changes and the drawing number changes as well, which is cool. Which is what I need. Then we add our isometric view. Now what I'll do is I'll make isometric view as the cover page selenium, this called Discover page height, this diary sheet and my cover page a lot of drag the cooperates to the top. To hide the sheet title. You need to create a new layer. Let's create a new layer, call this sheet layer. Now I'll select all of these objects. Right-click, move to layer and click on sheet layer. Now what happens is born show up in the other drawings. But what you can do is you can go to the Layer and simply click on this option here, where it will toggle through all the layers. And then what you can do is you can just go back to your cover page and simply height is back. This way you don't see the title and you only see the isometric views. And it'll show up in the other pages. You have your cover page and the other sheets. I want to create a nice cover page. I don't really want to waste a lot of time by opening Photoshop and then sort of editing out these edges so that I can keep all leaders and leaders that would look cool as well. But what I'll do is I'll delete this inserted page and then select this and center it. Then I'll select this view and go to SketchUp model and simply change the scale from one to 22. Maybe. One is to select this and delete this. I don't know what that was. Then I'll select this and drag these. Drag these extends to the edge mode on top a bit. And moderate. Then maybe insert my logo. Logo your motors to the left. This is an ACP plan because this is an ACP. And create a new layer, create a new tag called Discover, and then assign this to cover. Can also give a title. Can go to my presentation drawing. You can see that I've assigned it on every page layer sort. It's good to cover, select this. I'm gonna copy this quarter cover page. And then when I want to paste it, I'm just going to right-click and click on pace to current layer, which is gonna be pasting to cover layer. So let's click on that. Then I can simply drag this to the top. Maybe I can delete this and just keep the project name, the company. Now if you want a sheet layer to show up on top of this layer, what you can do is let's go to a layer. Just drag it on every page layer. To the top. You can see that it sits on top of all the leaders. Hello, Good, So we're done with all sheets. We can start a presentation. Now. Let's go to View. Click on Start presentation. Make sure all your sheets such as integral. Let's go to View start presentation. You can see that we created a nice school set of drawings. In the next video, I'll show you how to print out these drawings and share some useful print settings as well. So see you guys next video. 24. Printing in Layout for Sketchup: Hey guys, welcome back. Now there is something which I noticed in this view is that this wall is sort of not touching the edge here. What I'll do is I'll update this model. Move this water to the edge of that group. Then I'll just go back to isometric view and save this out. Now it looks perfect and look good in a layout with SketchUp sheets as well. Let's check what this is. We can quickly fix this as well. Select this wooden blank, and then simply copy it from this edge, this edge, and then push it in. And let's go back to my isometric view. It looks perfect. Let's say there's OK, we're saving the master file. Then I go back to my model here. Let's select this view. Let's go SketchUp model and then click on the link button. Now this looks better, it looks more perfect as well. Now let's see if this affected any of the pages. So let's go to our presentation running. Nothing wrong, go Everything looks good. Let's go to plan section AA and BB with anionic skirt. Ccne, dd. Everything looks good as well. But sometimes when you update the SketchUp model, the dimension sort of don't read. In that case, you can simply drag the dimensions right-click. You'll get an option to relink back to the model. So you just need to click on that option. And then you would be able to re-link it back to the model and you'd be able to retain your divergence as well. So that's a quick tip. So in case that happens in the future average show that, you know another video. Now let's get back to printing and print this file out. So let's go to cover page. Now since this is an A1 size, if you go to File and then click on, but you are left with very few options are if I click on Preferences, we have landscape. But if I go to Advanced, you can see that I have relief from A3, the tabloid. There's no A1 and A2. And if you print an A3. So if I press OK and OK, let's just select the first page. Then I need to print to file. So if I print is our print out a desk document. So you can see that it's printed. But since it's an A1 says it'll print in the ordinal scale. So it's showing, I don't 1 fifth, 1 sixth of the sheet. So what you can do is instead of printing it, you can go to File, click on export, and export it as a PDF. You can click on export as PDF and then you can call this whatever you like. So finally sheets. If you can't save, and then you can save all the pages from one to four. Contain that a solution from medium to high. You can retain it on medium. You can use the best quality and click on Export. Now we will start exporting as a PDF, and then you can print it out from the PDF file. Now you can see that it's printed out the sheets properly and it looks neat as well. I will have to update this because it's not location and scale. Let's quickly update that. I just need to enter this and change this to scale. Then it would update an older drawings. That's the best part about using the on every page earlier. Odd by dogging goes on which toggles to shadow across all the pages. If you're planning to print certain sheets. For example, the sheet. I wish you use certain steps that you can follow to have better print quality. You can select this view your, and then you can go to SketchUp model. Then you can change from raster to hybrid. What this does is it will make the drawing sort of vector and you will get sharper lines in your PDFs as well. It's gonna take a little longer to make it hybrid, but it will increase the quality of your drawings. But it's okay. Hello, did take about five minutes to sort of make this hybrid view. Now when I create a PDF window of this, the lines would come out much more sharper. But there are few recommendations. If you are using heavy models like for example, this red model, then I would recommend not to use the hybrid mode because it would sort of increase the time taken to convert it to a hybrid view. In that case, what you can do is you can replace these 3D models with 2D families or 2D plans, which you would get from 3D shadows. And then you could change this to and the hybrid board. But now I use the vector mode because it takes a longer time. So try to stick to hybrid mode. Hybrid mode is basically a mix of raster and vector. And it gives you the best of both worlds, which is enough quality for your buttons as well. Once you make it hybrid mode, then you can go to File, click on Print. And then depending on your printer, you would get the A1C is they'll put in those I have do not support A1 size. Now if you want to put in directly to A1 size, that is an option to download this PDF called nitro PDF go nitro.com slash Primo PDF. You can download this PDF. And then once you download and install this PDF, you would get an option showing up here. Like for example, I have blue beam PDF here. And then you can change the settings, make it A1, and then print it out. But in our case, we can simply export this out as a PDF. So we can just go to File, click on Export, click on PDF. And then we can call this finally sheet. And then click on save. And finally, you can give the best image resolution, resolution settings. So let's change this to high and print all the pages. You can also create the PDF layers and then click on Export. Now it's going to take a bit longer since a set the height resolution. If you've done printing a PDF and everything looks good, you can zoom in and see the quality as well. It looks perfect. Let's zoom into this plan because we sort of made this hybrid view. And you can see that the lines are much more sharper, which will look really good in the prints. These lines look good. But it's always important to make it hybrid when you send it for print, you can also print it from New York. Data key from your PDF viewer. I use WPS Office, which is a great alternative to adopt PDF. I hope you guys found this course useful and learn quite a done. I'm sure you've learned enough to create your own awesome drawings. I would love to see your work and what you've been able to reproduce by going through this course to take any project from my previous courses or take your own project. Use the techniques that I've taught you in this course and then start creating your own interior design drawings. I personally use Leo the Lord for my presentation drawings and also for my working drawings. I very rarely use AutoCad, but nowadays you can get almost all the work done within SketchUp layout. And of course read afford rendering. Please do leave a review for this course if you found it useful and see you guys in the future courses, videos and mode, and hopefully meet you in person someday as well. Daycare, just