Beginning Google SketchUp for 3D Printing

Chapter 11. Using LayOut

For any designer, presentation is important. The way you present your models will determine how others perceive your work. Good presentation leads to clarity; bad presentation leads to confusion. To assist you in presenting your models, SketchUp has introduced LayOut, which does things that other presentation software applications lack.

In this chapter, you'll use LayOut to prepare presentations. We kick things off with an introduction of the tools and panels in LayOut. You'll go through the basic steps of choosing a template, formatting the template, and adding text and images. You'll also import a model and add dimensions to it. In the concluding sections, you'll learn about annotating a LayOut presentation and how you ...