by Mike Tadros | Publisher: Peachpit Press | Release Date: April 2010 | ISBN: 9780132168038

LayOut 2, which comes bundled with Google SketchUp Pro 7, is a powerful tool for exporting SketchUp models to presentations and documents. It lets professionals easily create multiple views of a model and scale and arrange them. This video introduces the LayOut workspace, provides tips on navigating and customizing the workspace, setting up documents, and creates links between SketchUp models and LayOut documents. The video also covers managing text, using Scrapbooks (a type of object library), using the drawing tools, and exporting and presenting your LayOut documents.

1. Customizing your LayOut Template and Tool Palette; Navigating around your LayOut Document 00:03:39
2. Adding Pages and Arranging Images in LayOut 00:04:59
3. Setting up an Elevation view in LayOut 00:06:47
4. Selecting custom Scenes and Styles in LayOut 00:07:00
5. Editing a reference SketchUp file and updating it in LayOut 00:15:30
6. Editing Title Blocks and Text plus Layer Management in LayOut 00:11:23
7. Editing Text, Fonts, Shapes and custom Labels in LayOut 00:09:39
8. Using Scrapbooks in LayOut 00:06:05
9. The Drawing Tools, Slice Tool and Glue Tool 00:10:05
10. Presenting and Exporting your LayOut documents 00:07:11