Start from the end and work more efficiently with LayOut and SketchUp for interior design.

I have been designing interiors in SketchUp for over 15 years.

In that time, I have come to understand that to use SketchUp and Layout for Interior Design effectively, you have to reverse the order of thinking about working in these programs.

Think of SketchUp as a layout companion program that allows you to create a 3D model of the interior you are designing. Let me repeat.

SketchUp allows you to create a 3D model of an interior design created in LayOut.

LayOut is a presentation program, and the interior design is a presentation of your ideas.

The main principle of LayOut is to display the model views defined in SketchUp. These two programs work so well because the resulting model is a dynamic reference of your design.

Yes, that’s exactly what I mean.

The model in SketchUp is a dynamic reference of your interior design prepared in LayOut.

In other words, LayOut is an album of frames for a project created in SketchUp. Together with descriptions and dimensions, it is a collection of necessary information for the contractor and the investor.

You might also think that in LayOut you create a fascinating journal describing how to implement an interior you have invented and modeled in Sketchup.

You’ll admit that this changes the way you think about working with these programs.

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