Masking - Let's Talk LayOut

[@rommerts]

Before I watched the entire series of videos, LayOut was a complicated program to me. By watching all the videos I am now able to return my 3D drawings to 2D where necessary and easily draw the correct sizes of the design in it. Every video is fun to watch, complete and educational. Thanks again Aaron!

[@vitorb2707]

Absolutely love the layout series! Make some more, please!

[@chrisb3927]

Aaron, great tutorial, as always. I find your new tutorials just by constantly looking around at the SU and LO tutorials. I am already subscribed but I don't get any notice for your weekly or new tutorials.

[@fabiofrutuoso7259]

Hey! I´d love to learn more about the use of the "Style Builder" that comes with the software. And how to manage and configurate styles for use in the model!

[@chrisb3927]

Great tutorial Aaron. Thank you!!

[@williamgates2560]

Nice Job Aaron, very helpful!

[@saeedkhan-lt7mr]

easiest way to teach difficult, thanks sir

[@suchdevelopments]

Thanks that made aware first mask.

[@nickmcgarvey6463]

It's nice to use a documentation program that has pretty successfully combined the functions of SketchUp and Photoshop. Pet peeve moment: windows are not blue. Pay attention next time you look at a building, you will see they appear nearly black.

[@bradmeacham6982]

What causes Layout dimensions and callouts to "lose connection" to the points you picked in the SketchUp view window? I've had this happen on occasion. I do know about the context sensitive menu to "Reconnect to model" command, but it doesn't always work.

[@jordandouble3233]

Love the layout vids Aaron!!!! Do you havr any methods for saving PDF images to layout on a windows pc?

[@emilylukes942]

Hi Aaron, Loved this series, I'm a kitchen designer and I do elevations of each wall, I try and make as few scenes in SketchUp as I can to keep it light. Currently I set up a cut through section in SketchUp and save it as a scene and use that in LayOut. Is there a lighter way of doing it by activating it through SketchUp e.g. via tags. Example: For kitchen Islands, I turn all my tags off, only leaving the island, then use standard views to get top, L, R etc. saving around 4 scenes in SketchUp. Obviously if I do this with a kitchen run, I'm just looking at the back wall of my model! I'd love to know if you have a better way Emily

[@10004iomthon]

Thanks, from Student Thailand

[@PeteCollingsArchitect]

I'd like a video showing how to add dimensions in layout, wanting to know how to have them NOT show the units (eg: mm) appendage each time a new dimension is added. Cheers Aaron & team SketchUp.

[@ahmedbakarimussa3836]

nice one.thank you

[@johnleroy4010]

How would you grey out less important geometry in all three dimensions? For instance, say you had a complex pipe structure, and you wanted to highlight different levels of these pipes and the corresponding connectors for a step based assembly plan.

[@daviddecherf8434]

Bonjour Aaron, I would love to know the trick of overlapping dimensions. I would present my dimensions for each stud of my wood structure from one point. It is very useful in construction site with a tape measure. I looked for, but didn't find a good solution. Thank you for your help 🙂

[@richardrogersdesigns2683]

What I would like to see covered is creating several viewports on a page and labelling them with the correct scale for each viewport. thanks

[@bonehead3545]

Can we make a masked clip viewport that has an independent scale from the original viewport? For example, I have a viewport of a scale of 1/100 and I'd like to clip a small part of it and show this with a 1/10 scale in the masked clip viewport. When I change the scale of a masked clip, the original viewport is also changed. Is there any way to solve this problem? Thank you

[@terenceevans2011]

That is a great question. I've seen it in SolidWorks.

[@DidierScheurer]

I want to do an elevation of a wall and only see what is happening 1 meter behind (not see the window of the wall which is 5 meters away). In addition, I want to see the lines behind the wall for 1 meter as well. How to do ? Thanks !

[@trapatron]

Is there any way to insert a timestamp to layout documents? It seems only date available in autotext. Regards Tore

[@ivansamokhin2750]

Please tell if there's a way go switch render type for the entire document? When I'm working on it I do it in raster as you suggested but then to export I have to go and manually change every viewport to hybrid... This is a bit tedious, I wish there was another way

[@famcivilengineer34]

Hey Aaron, can you please elaborate about Auto text functionality.. How i can use it to enhance my documentation speed..

[@MrWildwayne]

Ok -- so we wanna do detail we wanna build --so we want to draw detail.... even 3d detail. Infact I can buy 3D detail and put it my model..so how about doing some detail referencing

[@kishansuthar4296]

Thank you so much sir

[@HauntingtonBeachManor]

Using Layout to make a set of drawings for a haunted house. Cannot seem to get pages to stay as as named. as I make a new viewport all the pages change to that named scene. Help LOL

[@MariannaM1976]

Hi Aaron! I really would love to know how to create a hole in a clipping mask.Let me explain better what I mean. I make a selection on a viewport and then, above it ,I place a shape and if I double click on both and say "Create a clipping mask" all that I have visibile is what I have in that shape. How I could reverse the selection, so I can let something in my viewport that I don't want to see desappear?

[@LivluvFamily]

In that case, you don't need to create a clipping mask. Just put the white shape where you want it, and hide the stroke if you want to. This is masking, but no clipping.

[@MariannaM1976]

@@LivluvFamily I don't what a blank or white space but shown what's under in the I create in the shape I put on top.

[@LivluvFamily]

@@MariannaM1976 I can't understand what you mean...

[@MariannaM1976]

I want to say it with simplicity to create a shape with an hole like a frame/a passepartout for a picture that I put underneath.

[@mercyfrs]

How to get model file for practice, and make the same process.

[@jw3971]

Is there a way to cut holes in the transparent mask? For example if you want to highlight only the doors and windows?

[@t3nsi0n14]

Have a hole in your mask will give you a hole. Or have two models and two masks one separating the doors and one separating windows.

[@bradmeacham6982]

You can also have multiple copies of the same SketchUp view port, each with its own clipping mask hi-lighting specific areas of interest. In addition, you can use a much higher scale factor in each clipping mask view to show specific details and have very detailed dimensioning and call outs.

[@jonomoles]

If you don’t need a stroke around your mask you can draw the hole by connecting the outside points to the inside points along the same line. It’s easier to do than to explain! Imagine using a jig saw to cut the outer shape and inner shape without stopping. Won’t work with a stroke!

[@mauropereira552]

very good

[@donproctor3445]

Just thought of another Layout vid. Creating layers in layout for text, dimensions, etc.

[@bonehead3545]

thanks

[@pamuvenkatasai8178]

How to add dimensions for interior in layout

[@nickmcgarvey6463]

Dimension command?