SKetchUp PRO TIP: SketchUp Scenes to LayOut viewPorts by aidan chopra
Voilà! Your scene is now associated with your model Here’s a juicy little factoid that experienced SketchUp
1. In LayOut, right-click on a model viewport and
Pro users know: When you’re working with multiple
choose Open with SketchUp from the context
SketchUp model viewports in LayOut, it really helps
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to create corresponding scenes in your SketchUp model. The primary reason for this is pretty simple. While it’s easy to pan, zoom and orbit your model view around in LayOut until it’s exactly right, there’s no easy way to save that view in case you need to come back to it later. If there’s a particular camera angle you want to use in your LayOut doc, it’ll save you time in the long run to open the model in SketchUp and create a scene with the view you want. Follow these steps to associate a scene you’ve created in SketchUp with a model viewport in an existing LayOut file:
2. In SketchUp, use the navigation tools to frame the view you want. 3. Add a new scene to your model (View > Animation > Add Scene). 4. Save your model. 5. In LayOut, right-click on the model viewport and
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Using section cuts in LayOut There are a few situations when you MUST use SketchUp scenes in combination with LayOut viewports. One of these involves section cuts. Because you can’t create, activate (or de-activate) section cuts directly in LayOut, you have to set up scenes to be able to make use of them*.
choose Update Reference from the context
In this example, I’ve modeled J.R. Davidson’s Case
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Study House #1, and I want to create a two-page
6. Make sure the model viewport is selected, then open the SketchUp Model dialog box (Window > SketchUp Model). 7. In the “Scene” drop-down menu, choose the scene you created in Step 3.
LayOut doc as a presentation file. The first page will show a bird’s-eye perspective; the second page, a first-floor plan. I use a horizontal Section Plane to produce the plan view (see below).