Create precise, scaled floor plans for large paper sizes (A3 to A0) and professional title blocks.
Marta closed the corrupted Layout file. She reopened the SketchUp model and, for the first time, organized it properly — tags (formerly layers) for structure, finish, furniture, and site. She assigned every group and component a tag. Then she opened a fresh Layout document. Instead of copy-pasting the whole model into one viewport, she created separate viewports on different sheets: one for the plan with structure tags on, one for finishes, one for dimensions. She locked each viewport’s scale. She used the Scrapbook for the title block — a built-in feature she’d ignored — and connected it to SketchUp’s model info so the project name auto-updated. cursus sketchup layout
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Oskar pulled up a chair. He didn’t touch the keyboard. Instead, he asked her to show him the workflow. Reluctantly, she walked him through it: she modeled everything in SketchUp — every beam, every screw — then exported to Layout to add dimensions, text, and title blocks. But the link between the two was fragile. Change one rafter angle, and Layout would scatter her sheets like dead leaves. She assigned every group and component a tag
Oskar asked to see them. She printed one sheet — the main elevation — on heavy bond paper. He held it up to the light.
“You’re using Layout as tracing paper,” Oskar said. “But it’s not. It’s a camera .”