Process Plant Design - Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating - page 128

For example:

Architectural 1234-3d.skp is inserted into LO-1234-A.skp

Demolition 1234-3d.skp is inserted into LO-1234-D.skp

General arrangements 1234-3d.skp is inserted into LO-1234-GA.skp

etc.

3. In these drawing files, one scene is set up for each model view in LayOut.

We create one LayOut file for each discipline of drawings or until the file
becomes too large. There are few tricks to creating these scenes. We add
geometry into the “LO-” files like back-clipping planes, and some line
work, that is, any line work that looks better when created in the SketchUp
model than in the LayOut drawing.

4. All design changes are done in the project model, and not the “LO-” files.

This process can be made more efficient and less prone to content missing
if all model changes are done in the project model, that is, 1234-3d.skp
in this example. This model is then reloaded into all the “LO-” files. Only
geometry that is scene specific is ever added to the “LO-” files.

5. The “LO-” SketchUp files are then imported into LayOut files.

6. The dimensions are annotated and added with LayOut tools. Processes of

text addition and dimensioning are straightforward in the new LayOut 2.1.
The tools in LayOut are not exactly like those of SketchUp in operation,
but they are just as intuitive to use.

The most important part of this process is the setting up of appropri-
ate scenes of your SketchUp models. These scenes do not have to
be drawn because you have a model already. With layering, sections,

FiG 7.12 Perspective drawings,
created in LayOut.