SketchUp to LayOut: The essential guide to creating construction documents with SketchUp Pro & LayOut

Excellent for people who know everything about modeling with SketchUp and wish to utilize its seamlessly powerful interface to create detailed construction drawings. My goal is to stop using AutoCAD altogether and move to using SketchUp to create my construction drawings and this book gives a perfect workflow strategy and crucial productivity boosting tips to do just that.

Very useful. Got me past many questions I was having with creating floor plans from 3-D files. Good step-by-step instructions.

Excellent book for learning to take your models from SketchUp to Layout. It presents the function of going from a finished model to bring the model into Layout in a very organized manner and is easy to understand.

Really good guide to get well beyond the basics of Layout. I liked it so much in that I now require it for a SketchUP class I teach. Well worth the money.

An excellent and extremely well assembled book on everything I needed to know about both SketchUp and LayOut. I use it as an invaluable reference guide.

I am not so experienced at sketchup pro and I need to create working drawings

I already know how to use SketchUp but Layout was its own different beast. Coming from AutoCAD its really not intuitive so I picked this book up and it helps me step up my SketchUp and LayOut game.

Was helpful, until you come up to a problem while using Layout. Then you find that the index in this book is skeletal at best. It's not an encyclopedic resource, put it that way.

Pratico e piuttosto chiaro. A volte un po' troppo sintetico, per lo meno per chi non mastica bene l'inglese.

People learn sketchup but many don't learn about Layout. This book is clearly written, it's well organised - explains the theory and then uses that with three examples. The sample files can be downloaded from the books website. I've contacted the author, Matt, several times recently regarding his new book. I've found him to be very helpful - you can't expect an immediate response from someone so busy but he will get back to you. I took a punt to get this book and so glad that I did. I'm sure that I will reference it in the near future, when I get the time to start using sketchup more for my business In particular this specifically helps with sketchup explains how to correctly use groups (including nested groups), components, layers (for groups and nested groups), scenes and styles ps when I say Sketchup - I mean Sketchup & Layout

Essential for learning how to prep a model to turn into construction documents.

Wenn man SketchUp erlernen möchte ist man meistens mit den zahlreichen online Erklärungs-Videos betreffend dem kreativen Design Prozesses sehr gut bedient. Ich habe bislang auch nicht ein gutes Buch als Nachschlagewerk gefunden. Mit dem „Layout“ Programm verhält es sich jedoch etwas anders. Die online Videos sind eher beschränkt und da man die Layout Funktion nicht so oft braucht wie die Designfunktion, ist ein Nachlagewerk umso dienlicher. Das „SketchUp to Layout“ von Matt Donley erfüllt für mich dieses Bedürfnis. Gut strukturiert führt es einem durch den Prozess aus den 3D Modellen Pläne für Handwerker, Architekten … u.s.w zu erstellen. Dabei bietet es viele gute Tips den Prozess zu vereinfache und zu strukturieren. Das Buch ist in einem einfachen und verständlichen Englisch geschrieben. Es basiert sicher nicht auf der neuesten Version von Layout, jedoch passen die beschriebenen Funktionen immer noch gut Hardy Fazit: empfehlenswert Liefertreue: Schnell und zuverlässig, wie angekündigt Verpackung: gut, umweltgerecht Funktion: gut Qualität: gut Preis/Leistung: gut Zufriedenheit: gut

I was a little disappointed in this book. Quality of the paper not that great, not all my concerns were answered and it would have been nice if it was made known that the images used throughout the book were from a PC not a Mac.