LayOut is mainly for showing off your SketchUp models. To insert a SketchUp model into a LayOut document, follow these steps: Navigate to the page where you want to insert a SketchUp model. Select File Insert from the menu bar. Have you heard of Google Sketchup? It's a great tool that helps you create room layouts and resign plans to make your DIY project, remodels, and home redesigns super easy. Here are some tips on how to use Google Sketchup that I've found to be super helpful in my projects. Download this FREE Sketchup Component / Model of a SCHOOL CLASSROOM LAYOUT including desk arrangement. This sketchup model can be used in your school design projects. (Google Sketchup 8.skp format) Our 3D Sketchup models / drawings are purged to keep the files clean of any unwanted layers. Our sketchup model free download is updated regularly. With the free version of Google SketchUp, you can use simple shapes to create a quick 3D space. Here I have an example of how I used Google SketchUp to help my sister design her study room. If you are wondering if Google SketchUp would work for you, look no further than here. It supports Mac OSX 10.5+, as well as Windows Vista, XP and 7. I love SketchUp for things like this. I've used it to layout furniture in an apartment before I had either the apartment or the furniture. I grabbed the floorplan image from the apartment complex's web site, added it and scaled it properly in SketchUp, built the walls up from that, then added cabinets, furniture, rugs, etc.
LayOut is mainly for showing off your SketchUp models. To insert a SketchUp model into a LayOut document, follow these steps:
Google Sketchup Room Layout Design
Google Sketchup Room Layout Design
- Navigate to the page where you want to insert a SketchUp model.
- Select File > Insert from the menu bar.
- In the Open dialog box that appears, navigate to the SketchUp model file, select it, and click Open. Your SketchUp model appears in the document area.
Sketchup Pro Layout
After you insert a SketchUp model into a LayOut document, it's a SketchUp model entity. When you select the model entity in the document area, you see the same blue selection border that appears around other LayOut entities, as shown in the following figure. As with any LayOut entity, you can select the SketchUp model entity anytime to access the selection border and move, resize, rotate, and arrange the model entity in relation to other entities on the page.