5 MOST IMPORTANT TIPS for Modeling for Layout in SketchUp
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- In this video, I'll go through 5 of the most important tips for modeling in SketchUp for Layout. These tips will help you create architectural plans from your models in SketchUp.
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MOST IMPORTANT TIPS for working in Layout
In this video, I figured I’d make a video summing up some of the most important content so far for modeling for creating architectural drawings in Layout.
Before I get started, I do want to thank my newest supporter on Patreon, William Fowler. Patreon is the website where you can support creators that you like on UA-cam, so if you like what I’m doing on this channel, please check out that link in the notes down below.
If you’re looking for more information on Layout, please make sure to check out thesketchupessentials.com/layout - I’m building that into a hub of information and resources about layout, so if you’re looking for more tutorials and other Layout information, that’s the place to go. Also, leave a comment below and let me know what resources/tutorials you’d like to see on that page.
Tip 1 - Turn off Perspective
When working in a SketchUp model, by default it has a perspective camera view, meaning that all the sight lines in the model run to a vanishing point. This is great for 3D views, but when you’re trying to create floor plans and elevations, you just want to have a straight up and down view. Go to the camera menu, then select “Parallel Projection” to turn off perspective to get the proper view for those floor plans.
Tip 2 - Understand the difference between Raster, Vector, and Hybrid
Layout has 3 different ways that it can render your images, and each has its own benefits. Vector rendering renders your lines so that they’re crisp and smooth, but does not render things like materials, so they’ll show up just as shaded colors. Raster renders complex materials, but your lines will show up choppy in your images. Finally, hybrid is a combination of both, allowing you to generate smooth lines and materials, but it comes at the cost of increasing rendering times on your PC. Knowing the difference can save you a lot of time in your models.
Tip 3 - Use the preserve scale on resize check box
One of the things that can be a little frustrating for new users of Layout is trying to resize and place drawings in your models. The reason for this is that often when bringing a new image into Layout, the images often lose their scale if you try to resize them. However, if you look in the SketchUp Model tab, make sure to check the “Preserve Scale on Resize” button to lock in your scale, so you can resize viewports without changing the scale of your models
Tip 4 - Layer Views by unchecking the box for “Background”
The way that you create your plans in Layout is by layering views on top of each other. However, sometimes you’ll try to drop a view on top of another view and you’ll find that it blocks the view beneath it. However, if you go into the styles viewport and uncheck the box for “Background,” Layout will make the background of your view transparent so you can stack it on top of your other layers.
Tip 5 - Organize your model properly
There’s probably no more important tip for working in layout than making sure that your model is organized properly. Because of the way that Layout works, you need to be able to turn layers and groups on and off to generate the plans that you’re looking for. If you start organizing your model as soon as you start modeling, this can be a fairly painless process.
That’s where I’m going to end this video - leave a comment below and let me know what you thought. What tips do you have for working in Layout? - Наука та технологія
I have just started following you and I found it quite useful. I have learned the sketchup on my own and your tips are doing wonders to me. I have no words to thank you. Pl keep up the good work and by the way....I m a small time architect
Nice presentation & quickly done too. Cheers !!
Good Luck.
Thanks for the video! Very helpful and easy to follow instructions
Thank you alot sir..for ur precious support.
So helpful! The vector vs raster tip saved my sanity. Really enjoying your videos, Justin!
Awesome - glad it helped!
Abou to go back into the industry after 4+ years... Your channel has been a life saver. Thank you so much!
Awesome! :)
Incredibly helpful and interesting. Thanks.
Thanks very much!
GOOD JOB! Thats what i was missing!
Dude you are perfect thank you for these informations
Really great videos, Justin. Very clear and useful stuff. I notice you're on Windows. I'm a Macbook Pro user and find a few differences (particularly with the tray) that I've had to mentally translate but it works, just the same. Nice job!
Thank you very much. I've been using SU and Layout for years, looking to improve my game and this was great.
Awesome - glad it helped!
Very informative video on Layout....Thanks Justin..
Thanks Jim - Glad you liked it!
Useful pointers, thanks~!
This is so helpful...thank you so much
Thanks - glad you liked it!
Thank you!
Very helpful, thank you!
Thanks very much!
great advice!
Hi Justin,
I'm looking lot of information how to make workflow with Sketch Up, found nothing and abakadabra, your video solve my problem :)
Thanks dude
Great video. Thanks!
Thanks Oscar!
Great video! I was wondering how to export high resolution pdfs from layout. Is there away to change the export resolution in layout?
Nice tips !
Thank you very helpful
Thanks for watching!
Much appreciation
Me tirou uma dúvida que sempre tive vontade de aprender. Parabéns!
Background box checked or unchecked?
very helpful and great video
Glad you liked it!
Thank you so much ~ saved me from falling into another black hole.
Tanks, helped me a lot.
Glad it helped!
THANK THE LORD this was so useful
Glad it helped! :)
i'm very thank to all tutorial that you give.
Thanks!
A good tip would be to customize the toolbar to bring out other useful tools that don't show up by default, some of the most useful of those tools are grid snap and object snap. i find them very helpful and use them all the time when resizing things precisely without auto snapping to the grid or other objects. great video btw.
Thanks Eduardo - this is a great idea!
Hi. How can I choose some element (for example some frame) in Layout if it is hidden under the other box on the same layer or have the same dimensions? Is there some way to "switch" the selection between these two objects being on the same layer??? I would be very thankful for this advice.
i was totally missing the vector-raster-hybrid setting. thankyou!
Hi.
Thank you so much
No problem!
Thank you for the lesson. I have a question for you, can we shoot on camera like a person in rooms??? Thanks
yes you can
Very good tutorial.
You will have some video of how to customize your own scrapbook for layout, I mean, furniture, architecture symbols, etc.
regards
I feel like that's something I should cover in the future, as I haven't gotten into it very much yet on the channel. We'll see - thanks!
Hey Dude, i love your videos, ive only started watching you, since i only started looking into ising stechtup .. I cant seem to download the 2020 version. Ive tryed on 2 computers and one is a new gaming computer. Which is very up to date. Once i download and try to start trail it says so ething like try again later. Have u any ideas on how i will get it to work. Regards Dave from Ireland...
Great Vids! Question: If I do elevations in sketchup with dimensions should I import them into Layout with the dimensions or add dimensions in layout?
Thanks.
Depends on the look you're going for - Layout dimensions are far more customizable and can look a lot more professional if you're creating plans. It's a lot faster to just dump them in SketchUp, so...it depends?
cool!
I'll have to say, if I need a quick tutorial on the way to finishing a Sketchup project, I look for Justin G. first! Keep up the good work, I'm learning everyday.
Glad it helped! :)
My heroooooo
loved youre youtube not great with my french sorry , for the different layer is it possible to have diffent line tipe ? like autocad
How to align Dimensions distance?? Is there a way like AutoCAD that can solve it with one click? Even though i can follow another dimension as a reference, sometimes the dimension lines change.
Always a great tutorial 👍I'm trying to export a layout file with 7 pages to pdf but it keeps saying "can't export the file" 😵 why? Please!!
Justin, i'm looking for thatch roof texture ; can you help me? i liked your tutorial on importing textures in SketchUP
Hi, thanks for your presentation! I have one question, my sketchup model has only 5Mb but when I import it to layout the whole layout file has 1,5GB, why? Layout is very slowely sometimes and its annoying:/ I wonder why it is so heavy? My sketchup model is very light, not many elements in it.
I am relatively new to skup. But you suggest layers and groups, which i like but.... other good tutorials rec using outliner as the key organisational tool. Do you have any comments re the differences/advantages? Cheers
Hi David - I talk about my organizational structure, including the way that I'm using the outliner and layers, starting at about 7:00 into the video - not sure what you're looking for beyond that...
Fantastic demos... loving it. Question i have please is, is there a ready way to save layout settings for future use within a template. E.g. Layer groups like within a Cad program such as Archicad. Finding the transition from Layer Groups to just scenes with little layer control challenging. Is there a way to save Layer groups, e.g, specific Layers for Layouts, specific Layers for electrical plan, floor plan, elevations etc...i understand you can use outliner to group items, thou there's no quick way to turn multiple layers on and off for each view. E.g Layouts group for room elevations, id like furniture off, and materials off, but as well as layee switching, id like it to jump to viewport settings such as styles. I simply want to be able to select a page like in archicad, that recalls layers, recalls styles etc....etc
You could create a template with all these layers built in - you'd probably just have to place the objects you'd like on those layers when you import them
Hello, how to do different shades of the walls, like on 6:15? Thank you.
this video is very useful,thanks alot.one question please:my layout 2018 is not licensed,how can i license my layout 2018 to be able to use it?thanks
You buy a license for SketchUp Pro
Tks
Thanks for watching!
Hi bro how to remove the grey background when its bring in layout
I want ask one thing can I create floor plan firstly in Sketchup layout and then make a 3D in Sketchup?
As we do generally with AutoCAD and for 3D we import the plan in Sketchup...
Thanks
No - the actual plan is coming from geometry in SketchUp - you can't export geometry from Layout to SketchUp
Whaaaaatsup Guys ))) love it :))
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Do you know if it's possible to transfer layers from sketchup model to layout?
It would be so much easier and more intuitive if line weight could be controlled via layers, not scenes.
Not that I'm aware of...
hello, I had a problem, when I export to a pdf file from layout, doesn't show the text & dimension. how to solve that problem .
Has Layout 2020 eliminted the need to stack views (viewports) on top of one another? That looks like an extremely arguous task. The end results look fantastic of course. In fact, Sketchup looks like it produces the best overall finished drawings based on what I've seen browsing the net.
can you please make a video of how to do section in sketchup and the exporting it to autocad??
thank you..
Generally I don't do a lot of work in AutoCad...
Hey great video. What I'm struggling with is once I've put hatched patterns on my sketchUp plan in layout and you want to change the scale of the layout sketchUp drawings the hatch does not change to that scale.. If you group the hatch to the sketchUp layout drawing it then doesn't let you scale the sketchUp plan.. Any ideas ? Thanks
Can you change the hatch size manually?
Yes that is possible but it is very hard/tricky (annoying) to have to keep trying to re size and line up each time. It also means that any text or additional line/scrapbook items drawn on Layout will need to be resized.
Ive watched a couple of your other videos and I've seen now how you can put hatching in sketchUp model first which is very clever :)
Thanks
Hi, tahnks for this tips, they're really useful. May be you already figured out why Layout file became biger & biger as i relink with new name of SU file with smaller size of a model? If you know how to clean it, could you share with it, please. I'll be appreciate ....
I don't know for sure, but I suspect you still have links to other, older models in there somewhere. Check your link manager in the file menu
@@Thesketchupessentials , thanks for the advise. I figured out. It's need to be pressed 'Purge button' in document setup. I couldn't recognized this button couse of inaccurate translation (I use Russian version of Layout)
I haven’t created a single project on there. On my iPhone and iPad on the other hand, I’ve created multiple s and soft in just one
When I am making my "Site Plan" my model obviously has to move from the axis to be placed appropriately, and because of this I now loose my nice 2D elevation views what's the best method to deal with this should i move my axis?
I don't know what this means. You set up your views in SketchUp - what does that have to do with the axis?
1300 and first like. yeah . great video
It would be best in layout, if developer give checkbox ;export using hybrid; option when we going to export our layout to pdf
Reajjy helpful
I have a problem when I change the style on layout.... It's show or hide the section on the model ... How can I control that ?
Well if you change the style in layout, you're overriding the style that was set up in SketchUp, so I guess the best way would be to set your styles in SketchUp, not in layout
How come your "door swings" shows on layout?
The door swings are modeled so that when you create 2D plans, they'll show up on the plan sheet. They're on their own layer, so you can turn them on and off as you'd like. Thanks!
i personally use 2 layers inside the door as a group...one being "door plan"....turned on when you wish to show a floor plan (door and swing shown as opened)...the other being " door elev" which used when the plan your working on needs to show the door closed, the actual door being a component so any changes to the door style will be addressed in one move. i do this and save in my scrap book, so every door you inset into a drawing comes with this as a normal function of each door. the other trick i like to use is all my section cuts are already made in my sketch up templete...it saves time making section cuts such as floor background...lines and such, i keep a few handy (1 story, 2 story, basement 1 story.....)..it sounds complicated....but is a HUGE time saver.....
the breakdown:
1.) 2 files are created....one is to a reusable file i call "to layout" the other being the actually working model "model"
2,) in the "to layout" model, create a rectangle whereas most of your projects will fit inside of then push/pull to a ave height of your projects . I use 300' X 300' X 100' tall ( i deal with some pretty big projects). group the box and call it something you can get to real quick in both layout and sketchup ( i use ZVP, Z (View Port) which puts it at the bottom of the list, making it easy to find by clicking descending order on my layers tab. outside the group i do my main section cuts, inside the group i make all my back cuts back cuts: (section cuts one may need to limit how far behind an object you wish you client to see)
the rectangle: the reason for the rectangle is to allow you to zoom extents on all scenes making having to move your scene to line up with the other scenes required to make a project happen in layout.
3.) copy / paste in place the rectangle into the file "model" whereas you try to make the rectangle the absolute center of your project,. (this box should be locked so it remains in the same place all the time on both "model" and " to layout"
4.) complete your project in the "model" file,. once completed and inside the group created with the rectangle copy / paste in place to the "to layout file" whereas all your typical sections are already made with such things as vector / raster, fog...line weight already set . (you may have to add a few section cuts depending on the project.) if you use the same section line ID's all the time, such as "floor cuts" consisting of several scenes your layout is 90 % is done when you "send to layout".
(I have made several layout templates set up for such as floor plan, foundation, elevations, and such which have pre-made scenes already in the layout template) which also allows you to not have to have an incredible amounts of "scenes"
so far this method has proven to be a HUGE time saver in my world.
Justin: feel free to use this example, if you wish too, as something for a future video
Very nice tutorial..can i ask for more scrapbooks.thanks.
hi Justin.... please help me in this issue...
when i export model from 3ds max to sketchup (Actually I export FBX from max to SimLab Composer then Export it as Skp file ..first issue is for example the basic file is about 50Mb then it becomes about 600~700 Mb but my main issue is not the size of the file,when I importing it in Sketchup THE YELLOW LINES all around the model just killing me..i can barely move around a simple scene (((i7-5820K, 32GB ddr4 ram, RTX 2070 SUPER...)) how can I get rid of these yellow lines....i want my model to be imported into Lumion10...Please help me if you can,I greatly appreciating that,,Good Luck.
I don't know a lot about the way Max creates geometry, so I really don't have an answer to this one
My computer is a Nvidia gtx 1660, 16ram, but the layout is too slow! do you have any tip?
Smaller model, don't use hybrid rendering, less viewports,etc...your PC speed doesn't affect this nearly as much as your model and layout setup
ok but here's my problem - When i switch to hybrid or vector, my plan changes? Now the roof is back on & on sketchup it's not on..How do i turn it off?
That's going to depend largely on how your model is set up...
@@Thesketchupessentials i used the standard ''position camera'' method to make the sections for plan & elevations - i dint use the section tool.
How to make a model sketchup to 2d layout drawing.
Here you go - ua-cam.com/video/NbGsYtYjJlg/v-deo.html - This is kind of start to finish...
could you tell me how to make wall texture look more real
Generally speaking, if you want the wall texture to look more real, you're going to need to use a higher resolution texture. You can find those at places like SketchUp Texture Club - more info in this video - ua-cam.com/video/NlmkAy8UxVY/v-deo.html - Thanks!
+TheSketchUpEssentials thanks justin...
My dimensions appears in red box background in layout
The red box indicates that you've placed your dimensions on a layer that's set to repeat on every page. Either put them on a different layer or go down into your layer settings and click the little button that looks like 2 sheets of paper to turn this to a layer that doesn't repeat
Can you please send with this software link
www.sketchup.com
I using abelton live
you need to blink more often ]
version, standard is more than sufficient
Oh actually from layout you can right click and choose perspective to do a layout plan.
Generally I recommend that for most documents, you control the actual camera in the viewport from within SketchUp, but if you need a simple view for something, this method is fine
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it's suck . THE LAYOUT - i put 10 mesure in sketchup but show only 5 in layout
I'm not sure what this means, but it sounds like you're setting your scale or dimensions up wrong - nothing to do with Layout...
@@Thesketchupessentials ok now , just find out Hybrid is suck to keep all the dimension line from sketchup, well i moved to Raster and just up the resolution lol
dude pop ouht the beginning like he on heavy acid
Justin! Once again; you're a dude.
Thanks and very helpful tips. keep it up!
Glad you liked it!