AARON - First - THANK YOU for your posts. I believe there are a lot of us who are total fans of what you guys post. Per your consistent comments at the end of your posts, I have a requests/comments. A lot of us are migrating from traditional CADD packages. AND a lot of us are professional architects, engineers, surveyors, draftspeople, craftspeople. A critical key to our endeavors are, and shall always be. accurate construction documents. Moving from 3 Dimensional Models to 2 Dimensional Construction and/or Shop Drawings. Could you please do a video and/or series, on developing a model in SketchUp, then IMPORTING it into a scaled series of Layout drawings, which can then be developed as traditional scaled, ACCURATE, Construction Documents? Could be a simple example, something like a shed. The leap from 3D to 2D , from SketchUp to Layout, can be confusing. A simple step-by-step process would encourage a lot of professional and illustrators to embrace SketchUp & Layout as professional tools. There are a few, Nick Sonder in particular, who generate great things. However, Scenes, Raster & Vector Graphics can be confusing and overly complex. New features and abilities of both SketchUp and Layout offer greater utility if put into cohesive context. Something simple and clear would be great. Thank you for your consideration and patience with my request. Please keep putting out great video posts. Cheers!
Drawing at scale could be handy for some things, but this example is not one I would use it for. I assume at some point you would have to go back to your model and add the window there also, no? So it's probably easier to open the model, add a component or group, return to Layout and update the reference.
Stephan Holland - Maybe not the best example, but wouldn’t this method be useful if you wanted to use a low detail SketchUp model, then add detail, like wall materials, bolts, etc, in a larger scale partial wall section or detail?
New to sketchup, and I have a lot of projects to do and the whole "layout" part to create construction documents and other output consumable outside of sketchup is a key part of the sketchup universe. This series has been extremely helpful. You have done a good job of explaining the relationship between the two programs. Much better in fact that what is on learn.sketchup.com for layout. One thing that I noticed is that Layout's import/insert capability seems limited. For instance I could not get it to bring in a .stl file. Seems like some potential for future features here, and expanding the utility of layout for sketchup subscribers. And, Aaron is the sketchup video god. LOL
The resolution is such that I can't read the menu text, really need more information and details, step by step on how to start from the beginning to create a scale drawing
