Quick tips for drawing shapes in LayOut to cover unnecessary parts of the SketchUp model viewport when creating technical drawings for interior design.
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Below are the key learnings from the fifth episode of Let’s Talks LayOut by SketchUp about drawing shapes.
Drawing Shapes — Let’s Talk LayOut — YouTube
Let’s start with the most important rule.
Don’t draw technical documentation in LayOut.
Use this program only for dimensioning and labeling drawings created in SketchUp.
Drawing shapes is great for quickly covering unnecessary parts of a drawing.
Basic information about drawing shapes in LayOut with any tool.
Setting properties after selecting the tool, but before using it, set’s defaults
While drawing a polygon, you can increase or decrease the number of sides by pressing the arrow keys.
If necessary, you can change the order of the elements.
Right-click on the selected element > arrange > bring to front
Or you can move drawn elements to another layer by
selecting them > Right-click > Move to layer
How to merge shapes step-by-step:
- select elements
- activate the split tool (scalpel) and click on the outline intersection points
- delete unwanted outlines
- activate the join tool (glue bottle)
- click on the remaining outlines one by one
When you draw a shape to cover an unwanted part of the SketchUp viewport, remember that you can snap to the reference point in the model viewport.
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