SKALA : Quick Start Guide
Everything you need to know to start producing beautiful 2D drawings from your 3D SketchUp Model
Like many architects I had used SketchUp for a number of years as a 3D modelling package only, something with which to quickly explore ideas before moving into AutoCAD and 2D drawings..often scrapping the SketchUp model and starting from scratch with linework in CAD. This method was OK, but it took so long.. plus paying for two seperate software licenses was getting quite expensive.
Then I discovered Layout for SketchUp Pro. This was a revelation for me, it turned SketchUp into a different kind of software – something I like to call ‘BIM Light’. No longer do I have to throw away these early design models, but rather I can continue to develop them using the same software package and then, using Layout, produce meaningful and accurate 2D drawings directly from the 3D model.
Over the years, I have honed and developed this workflow and I am going to share it with you here in this step-by-step course. I will show you how to organise your model in an efficient may so as to maximise the amount of 2D information you are able to harvest from it. Then I will show you how to produce great looking and accurate orthographic drawings right inside SketchUp, before finally producing high quality architectural drawing sets using Layout.
This methodology will not only saving you thousands in unnecessary addition software licenses, but also countless hours spent on repetititive and tedious 2D CAD work. Working with SketchUp and Layout is not only smart, it can be fun too!.. let me show you how.
Your Instructor
Mark Gregory is a practicing Architect successfully running his own small residential design practice on the back of his flexible, efficient and cost-effective SketchUp workflow. He has worked for numerous other architecture firms, both large and small, and has experience in pretty much every software and drafting package used in the industry today.
When setting out on his own Mark chose to invest his time and money in SketchUp, and subsequently has developed practices, methods and templates that allow him to replicate the systems and processes available in larger BIM programs, but at a fraction of the cost and in much less time.