Creating Elevations in Layout from Your SketchUp Model

In today’s video, we’re going to talk about some tips and tricks for creating exterior elevation plans in Layout from your SketchUp models. Learn tips about using fog to create depth, how to handle terrain with your elevations, setting scale in your documents, and more!

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Before I get started, I want to thank my supporters on Patreon.
So I want to talk a bit in this video about some tips for modeling for exteriors in SketchUp, then creating your exterior elevation plans in Layout.
To start off, you can start fairly simple, just by modeling your building. If you have some terrain or something like that to begin from, that’s usually a good thing to have in your model as well. If not, don’t worry about it for now.
In this case, I’m using a model from the building bundle from Mindsight Studios – you can actually download this model from the sample file, which I’ll link to in the notes down below, as well as sharing a link of the whole bundle.
First thing – once you have your building modeled, you’re going to want to set up some scenes.
If you remember from some of my previous Layout tutorials, the way that you can create your views in Layout is to create various scenes within SketchUp, then you can import from those scenes in order to generate your pages in Layout.
To start off, let’s create a front elevation. To do this in most models, you’re going to start by clicking on the front camera view, then set your camera to parallel projection.
Picking a style – Black and white? Colored?
Depth indication – fog
Once scene is set up, save your tab using animation, add scene
Now we’re going to go over into layout. Select a template – if you have your own, great, if not, just pick one of the SketchUp templates

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[charliesmith]

Excellent tutorial. As a Civil Engineer who is trying to push his own house plans through the local planning department, these tutorials (and especially this one) have been super helpful for me on the architectural side. Thanks, and keep up the good work!

[alanawrightson]

thank you so much for this video. I needed to do this for a final project and wow, it's so much easier than I thought! You're a good teacher. Subscribed!

[stdoja]

Thank you for hitting the critical points on how to actually scale the drawing. You saved me a lot of stress at work!

[gilleanwoods]

You are amazing! Have learned so many great tips from YOU. THANK-YOU!!

[inchSamsungTV]

Thank you, sir. Great tutorial, it was extremely helpful

[lorvuthi]

Thank you so much for this video, it helps me a lot.

[jens]

Perfect for a sign elevation I need to provide to the client. Thanks...

[woutdevolder]

Thanks a lot for all the info Justin! I have one more question: if we finish the design in SketchUp we want to export all the faces 2D to dwg. and import it to our Vectorworks. But this is only lines... So there are no textures anymore . What we usually do: export again but as an png. and put it behind the lines. But it takes very long if we have 4 or more faces to export. We tried to export 3D but after importing in the program (Vectorworks) it goes very slow. Is there a way/plugin to export only our 2D scene to 2D with lines (to snap) and still have the texture/image or combination of polylines? Thank you in advance! Greetings Wout, Antwerp Belgium

[aymanali]

The tutorial actually started at 14:05

[prinkachawla]

THANKS ..IT HELPED ME ALOT..IT SOLVED THAT PROBLEM IN WHICH I WAS STUCKED

[jackwortman]

hay Justin, did you know in layout, under you color swatch that you can pick on a color and drag it to your line or fill window, it is just a quick way to edit your colors faster.

Like always....that was great dude.!
From Los Angeles - california

[salambekbatukaev]

Thank you very much! Very useful tutorial! Liked it!

[NanulSavage]

Thank you for this video! 3/16" - 1'0" is based on the scale you chose in layout so that you can create accurate dimensions? I'm modeling my parents' home and almost ready to present it to the builder, but I'm very new to these tools, and to architecture for that matter. I'm trying to understand what is that signaling to the builder since there is no grid showing? Probably a silly question, but would love help! Of course, I can repeat what you're doing, but understanding it would be nice.

[clean.chakma]

thank you so much dude you're a god

[mainy]

We had some interaction on a boxing channel, so just popped to drop you a sub and a like. nice to talk in the comments without any arguments / disrespect. Good luck with your channel, I wish you all the best =)

[falconlara]

Any help with layout is welcome. Thanks Justin!

[kisanhanchate]

thanq so much.... i m learning so much new things in sketchup ..thanx for uploading this vedio.... 👍💐

[kudamidzi]

Hi, Thanks for all your help so far. Is there anyways to turn-off a layer when in layout, because it appears not to be an option. So far I have had to save my model as a different file to delete what I do not need to show, but at this stage sketchup should be closer to AutoCAD now.

[eduedu]

Just a little tip, you can toggle the Stroke and Fill ON/Off just by clicking the word which is actually a button. :)