Agenda

Registration:                    8:00 – 8:30 am

Morning Session:             8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Lunch (On your own):       12:30 – 1:30 pm

Afternoon Session:           1:30 – 5:00 pm

Creating Construction Drawings in SketchUp and LayOut is a lecture-based seminar, where the instructor will demonstrate SketchUp features and the model-building process on a laptop computer. Computers will not be provided for attendees. Attendees who wish to do so may bring their own laptop computers loaded with the SketchUp program. However, as this is a lecture-based seminar there will be no time allotted for attendees to do exercises on their laptops, nor will the instructor spend time instructing individual attendees about how to complete tasks on their laptops. In order to cover all of the scheduled content, the instructor will need to demonstrate features for the entire class.

Setting Up the SketchUp Model

   Practicing good modeling techniques

      Use groups and components to cleanly organize the model

      Use layers and scenes to gain and maintain control of the model

      Make model navigation and future modifications easier to accomplish

   Developing construction drawings

      In native SketchUp – the pitfalls

      From the SketchUp model in CAD – the disadvantages

      From the SketchUp model in LayOut – the advantage

   Sharing the model across various disciplines using components

   Preparing the model for LayOut or CAD

      Determine what building components you want to include in your drawings

      Determine what drawings you’ll need to produce the construction drawings

      Create scenes in SketchUp to be recalled in the LayOut documents or exported to CAD

Setting Up LayOut

   Begin to work in LayOut

      An overview of the LayOut Program: toolbars, trays and document setup

      Develop and save a default sheet format with a repeatable title block

      Creating layers and how they function: stacking order

      Sharing information between sheets on shared layers

      Developing the sheets required for the set of plans

      Adding or re-ordering sheets Auto text

   Inserting the SketchUp model into LayOut

      Recall the appropriate drawing scenes in LayOut

      Model space/paper space concept: create viewports

      Edit the LayOut viewports to add new non-scene drawings

      Set drawing scales for all viewports

Using LayOut as the Drawing Production Vehicle

   Create plans, sections and elevations in SketchUp ready for LayOut

      Using the section tool, the position camera tool and the group from slice tool

   Rendering styles: raster, vector and hybrid – the pluses and minuses – auto render

   Add line work, fill and pattern fill

   Add and edit dimensions, text, titles and notations

   Understand the shape style, text style and dimension style trays

   Use scrapbooks to add drawing symbols: default and custom