Then right-click and select the next scene we’ve created before in SketchUp.Īs you can see, if I do not select a scale, the model moves with the viewport. I’ll duplicate the first one using “Control C” and then “Control V”.

With these buttons you can add new pages and move through them. Adapt the viewport to the paper size, as you can see, by double-clicking here you can enter to the 3D model to change the view. I will remove the background going to “SketchUp Model / Styles / Background”. Select the paper size, I am gonna use now an A4. Save now the project and click on “File / Send to Layout”, which will open the second application I want to talk about. You can do this in Layout too, I’ll show you later how to. Create a new layer for dimensions and then select the “Dimension” tool.

I will also create 3D model exploded scenes for a better understanding of the drawings. Hide parts we you need, select the desired view and create more scenes to your liking. Select the component, then right-click and “Model Info”. In the Exploded copy, I am gonna change the layer of every part in order to make printed templates. I am gonna change the scene transitions to make them faster. Then select the parallel projection and make scenes for each view. Now I can start to create scenes, first the “ISO view”. Once they are selected you can enter the distance with the keyboard and press enter to get the desired position. Again with the “Move Tool”, displace 50mm all the parts. Select the top view and parallel perspective to make easy the work and the understanding of the steps to perform. What I want to do is to extrude one of the copies and draw some dimensions on it.

Now I’ll duplicate the model with the “Move Tool” pressing “Control” while I move it, will show us now guidelines to help us keeping the component in the desired axis. The next step is to color it using the “Paint Tool”. Now I will prepare the model for making some presentations, first I will select the edge Style for a better visual aspect, we go again to “View / Edge Style”, and mark the “Only Edge” option, I am going to soften a bit the edges too using the “Soften Edges tool”. for this, go to View / Tool-bars and select “Large Tool Set”, and place it to your liking. To do this I’ll open this 3D model that I downloaded from the warehouse and I’ll start displaying a tool bar with the most commonly used tools. Some of the tools I am using including the layout application itself are only available in the Pro version of SketchUp. Hi, in this video-article I’d like to show you some useful tips to make presentations with SketchUp and Layout, and how to print large drawings on multiple A4 pages.

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