In LayOut, you can change the view of your model or its style settings right within the model entity. This timesaving feature enables you to make adjustments without endlessly switching back and forth between the SketchUp and LayOut applications, or having to redo even more complex processes that other presentation programs require so that your model presentation stays up to date. Show Note: When an edit has been made, the dialog will be displayed gray and a Reset button will become available. If you need to restore the default state style simply press the Reset button. In the sections that follow, you find out how LayOut's SketchUp Model panel and context menus make several SketchUp tools and features available right in LayOut. Tip: Sometimes, after you change a view or style setting, you need to render the SketchUp model entity before the changes show up in the document area. Accessing the Camera toolsRemember that SketchUp uses the metaphor of a camera to reflect how you can view a model in three dimensions. To access the Camera tools within a LayOut model entity, follow these steps:
For details about using these tools, see the related articles in the SketchUp Pro area of the Knowledge Center. Viewing a Model introduces the Orbit, Pan, and Zoom tools, and Walking through a Model explains how to use the Look Around and Walk tools. Selecting scenesIn SketchUp, scenes enable you to save different views of your model and switch among them. When you import a SketchUp model into LayOut, any scenes you've created are ready to use, which is handy if you want to show those same views in your LayOut document. To change the view to a scene from your model, follow these steps:
Tip: Alternatively, you can context-click the entity and, from the menu that appears, select a scene from the Scenes submenu. Choosing a standard viewAll of SketchUp's standard views are available in LayOut. Simply follow these steps:
Tip: Alternately, you can context-click the entity and, from the menu that appears, select a view from the Standard Views submenu. For an introduction to SketchUp's standard views, see Viewing a Model in the SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro area of the Knowledge Center. Setting the perspective and scaleWhen a SketchUp model is in Perspective view, elements in the model are not to scale. To show your model's scale in your document, you need to switch to Parallel Projection view, which displays what's also called an orthographic projection. You can switch to an orthographic view and set a scale for your model right in LayOut. Simply follow these steps:
Tip: To access the custom scale options anytime, select Edit > Preferences (Microsoft Windows) or LayOut > Preferences (Mac OS X), and in the Preferences dialog box that appears, select
Scales in the sidebar on the left. Click the Add Custom Scale button or the plus sign to set a new scale, and set how you want the size in your model to be scaled on paper. Switching on shadows and fogSketchUp's Shadows feature enables you to study how the time of year and time of day impact the light and shadows in and around your model. Fog can add a mystical effect, or add a touch of realism to models in foggy places, like San Francisco or London. In LayOut, you can toggle these effects on or off and adjust a few settings as follows:
In the SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro area of the Knowledge Center, see Casting Realistic Shadows or Letting the Fog Roll into Your Model for details about how these features work. Applying stylesIn SketchUp, styles bundle preset line widths, colors, materials, backgrounds, and so on. In LayOut, you can change a model's style, or apply a different style to each copy of a model. For example, you might apply one style to show the materials applied to the model's exterior, and use a wireframe or sketchy edges style with a Top view setting to show the model's floor plan. To change a model entity's style settings in LayOut, follow these steps:
To improve accessibility there is a Color Blind style, which is calibrated to make SketchUp models easy to see for people who experience color blindness. In LayOut, you find this style on the SketchUp Model panel. Click the Styles tab, and at the top of the tab, open the Styles Collections menu (it looks like a house). Select Styles, double-click Color Sets, and scroll down until you find the Color Blind style, shown in the following figure. Rendering model entitiesAfter you select a view or style setting that changes a SketchUp model entity's appearance, you may need to render the SketchUp model entity before the entity reflects your changes in LayOut's drawing area. To help you manage how and when LayOut renders model entities, the bottom of the SketchUp Model panel includes a few rendering features. The Auto checkbox and Rendered/Render buttonTip: When the Auto checkbox in the SketchUp Model panel is selected, LayOut automatically renders all model entities as you make changes. The Rendered button (Microsoft Windows) or Render button (Mac OS X) is grayed out, because you don't need it. Automatically rendering model entities works great if all the models inserted into your document are small. However, rendering can take awhile if your document includes one or more large models. If you've deselected the Auto checkbox and your model references are up to date, a yellow warning icon appears whenever a SketchUp model entity needs to be rendered. To update the model entity in the document area, select the entity, as shown in the following figure, and click the Rendered button (Microsoft Windows) or Render button (Mac OS X). Note: You can turn off the display of the yellow warning icon, which appears by default. To do so, select View > Warning Symbols > Unrendered Models to clear the check mark next to the Unrendered Models option. Rendering Mode drop-down listIn the lower right of the SketchUp model panel, the Rendering Mode drop-down list enables you select one of three options for rendering your models on-screen and in any outputted format (such as print or PDF). Select Vector to display and output all lines, faces, and text in vector format. Before you select this mode, here's what you need to know:
Select Raster mode to display and output all lines, faces, and text in a pixel-based format. Raster is the default mode.
Select Hybrid mode to use vector rendering for sharp, scalable line work as well as raster rendering for raster-only features.
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