Process Plant Design - Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating - page 127

FiG 7.11 New process upgrade
model.

Step 4: Construction Documents

Goal : To produce dimensioned construction documents (drawings) from
the SketchUp model, with LayOut.
Inputs : The project SketchUp model and existing template files for LayOut.
Tools : SketchUp 7.1 and LayOut 2.1.

At this point in the project, the 3D SketchUp model is nearly complete. This
project model is named by project number, for example, Project 1234's project
model would be called “1234-3d.skp.” This model contains the entire project,
both old and new details.

All the Scenes created in the SketchUp model up to this point are used only
to view the project. We now need to create Scenes in SketchUp specifically to
produce drawings in LayOut.

We now set up the Scenes in a SketchUp file for use with LayOut. For most
projects, unless they are very small, we do not want to add any more Scenes
to the project model. So we create SketchUp files just for use with LayOut files.

Since many people need to work simultaneously on a project, we have devel-
oped the following strategy with the SketchUp and LayOut files:

1. We create drawing files from the project model.

2. The project model is imported into each drawing (LayOut) file. These are

the SketchUp files on which the LayOut files are based. They are set up
by discipline. The main elements that are changed from file to file are the
Scenes and the styles. We name the files according to the type of drawings
to be created.