Drawing to Scale in LayOut - Two Ways!

Need to draw a construction detail or just part of your model directly to the document sheet? No need for SketchUp (unless you want to) as Eric shows you how to get a scaled drawing started from scratch right in LayOut.
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[@JAWSnAZ]

Thanks Eric! I've been spending as much time in Layout as inSketchup lately and Layout definitely needs a lot more love and attention. 3D models are great but we make our money when we turn those models into usable construction documents!

[@ericsargeant3254]

For sure! The goal is to eventually get our designs built and for that we need more than just the model ;)

[@keggyification]

Thanks Eric, I'm loving the recent Layout love in your videos and live streams. I'm learning loads and it's really helping me get more out of Layout.

[@ericsargeant3254]

Awesome. I'm loving that you're loving using LayOut more!

[@chrisb3927]

Great tutorial. Thank you Eric!!!!!!!

[@josefestrada5202]

upstanding very good explanation , thank you

[@ahmad-murery]

I never used scale drawing before. Thanks Eric!

[@ericsargeant3254]

Super easy and helpful. Like so many things, now that you now how to use it, you'll start to find more uses for it!

[@ahmad-murery]

@@ericsargeant3254 that's for sure 👍

[@jonomoles]

Ooh I didn’t know you could explode the contents of the Sketchup viewport into line work. Has that been a thing for a while? I’ve very recently switched to 2023 from 2018. I’ll be having a play with that later! Thanks Eric. Another good one.

[@bellousow2607]

yes i use it a lot with blocks from autocad to layOut sometimes they dont come with the right scale and i use this metode to creat a large variety of scale with the same model and save them as skrapbook i was inspired by the scrapbook in layOut with all those car with deferent scale and i m very happy .. my fourniture a all in my scrapbook my most used hatches feels.....its just plug and play

[@hayatuahmad2214]

I was looking for the way out, I'm off the hook. Thank you l appreciate it.

[@ericsargeant3254]

You're welcome!

[@carissapeche4115]

Thanks for that! I do often scaled plans / DWGS but this time I measured once printed out with the second method & instead of 1:100 it was 1:260 Is there any more tips when importing images?

[@tcbandeira]

Ow! i didn't know about this rounded hold and click! is that works at sketchup or just in Layout?

[@SketchUp]

That trick is exclusive to LayOut. It's a nifty one!

[@elifox4454]

What is Sketch up? Is an app or a computer program?

[@elifox4454]

Is it free or you have to pay? And if you have to pay how much? And is just one pay or you have to pay every month?

[@SketchUp]

@@elifox4454 www.sketchup.com/

[@juanestebanparraos3763]

Please, I need a way to make scrapbooks that work as components, I mean edit one instance and they are all updated. That would be great, thank you very much!

[@SketchUp]

Great idea. That's not possible as of now. Instead try instead inserting a separate component as a SketchUp model and, if set to Vector mode, can be used as if it were a Scrapbook element (ie Scaled Drawing).

[@juanestebanparraos3763]

@@SketchUp ¡Gracias! Eso servirá también

[@dany-bh6sr]

now i know how to use the scale drawing

[@davidandmarionharper5114]

Adding dimensions? (at scale) 11:48

[@ericsargeant3254]

Yes. The dimensions are scaled to the drawing so that if I added a dimension for height...it would read as 20" no matter what scale I changed the drawing to.