Hey, guys, it's Aaron. A lot of you have been asking for a series on LayOut, and I haven't
gotten right to it. I'll be honest with you why. I wanted to make sure we could set it up in a way
that would be useful for people just coming by and watching. Series videos don't do very well when
you have to watch part 1, then part 2, then part 3; where they build on each other. It gets hard
sometimes because when you get eight parts in, it's hard to go back and watch all eight. People
are less excited. So, I wanted to be smart about this and break it into bite-sized pieces that
could stand on their own. With that, we're going to start this series of "Let's Talk LayOut." We
are going to start today by looking at the user interface and see how LayOut is laid-out - that
was a good one - and how we can begin using it. Let's do that right now. Okay, so here I am inside
of LayOut. Obviously, the main part of the screen is taken up by this page. I started a document,
the next one may actually be how to create a document from scratch, but we're going to
take a look at this existing document right now. So, this is my page. Here I have this part that,
I'm in select, and I have a part and I can't pick it. This is actually my page. This moves around
on here just like it does in SketchUp. If I roll up and down on my middle
mouse, it'll zoom in and out. If I click and hold the middle mouse button, the scroll wheel,
I can actually pan. So, if I'm in here really far I can pick it. This is not actually moving
something. This is actually panning my whole page, just like in SketchUp. In SketchUp, you orbit,
obviously. In LayOut we are in 2D, so we aren't going to orbit so much as just pan. I do have
scroll bars on the side too. I could actually use those to move in and out. As well as,
in the lower right-hand corner, there is a zoom. If I want to see what that 100% zoom looks like,
I can click that, and there we go. Let's talk a little bit more about that page. So,
you can see I have what looks like a letter sized page, and it actually is letter-sized;
and I have some grid on there. This can be picked from a template when you first start. Again,
like I said the next video will be about starting a new drawing. Once you're in here,
you can actually make changes to that. If I come up here to "file" and I pick "Document
Set Up" I can change the information about this page. Let's look at a couple of thing here,
let's look at the grid first. A lot of people get hung up on this grid, seeing it, using it,
setting it up, that sort of thing. It's really pretty simple. Here, under "Grid" I can toggle
"Show Grid" on and off. I have the option of using "Lines" or "Points." I can also set up a "Major"
or "Minor Grid." So, here I have a Major Grid of one inch. So, this is 11 boxes by 8 and a half boxes,
because it's 8.5 x 11. I have each of those pieces broken down into four; so, each box
has four inside of that. Actually, you can't see a full grid, but you can see a half of one in here,
but that's 4x4. I have the options too, to "Print Grid," "Clip grid to page margins" (these
white spaces around here are the margins), or "Draw grid on top," which will actually place it over
top of my drawing. It is one of the things that happens once I my drawing on there, I can't see
that grid. If that is an issue for you, you can draw it on top. The other things I want to look
at in here, and we'll come into here throughout the series, but I want to look at "Paper." This
is pretty simple, but some people have struggled with finding where this is. This is my paper size,
so mine is 8.5x11, which is standard letter paper in the US. There are templates for A4
and A3. There are a whole bunch of them. I also have the ability to set my margins. Like I said,
that's this white space. Right now, I have a half inch around the whole thing, but I can actually change
that if I wanted to. That's indicated by this little, light-blue line. You saw when I turned my
grid off, I still had this line. That's my margin line. These lines, whether they be grid or they're margin lines,
don't actually come out in the print unless you tell it to do that. So, if I do want to print my
margin lines, I can turn that on and they will show up in the print. Otherwise, they stay off.
Alright, so here's probably the most important thing in these page setups is "Rendering Resolutions." How
is this going to render the page to the screen and how is it going to render the page to the printer?
That's my own terminology. Display Resolution? I'm going to set that to low. Low is going to give
me the quickest render on the screen; whereas, my Output Resolution, I'm going to set to high. This
is going to give me the highest Output, whether I do a digital output or to printer. It's going to
give me the best resolution for output. So, you do want to make sure for, I believe when this first
installs, they are both set to medium, you want to come in here and set it to low and high. The final
thing is Units. So, this is the units I want to use in here; fractional or decimal, inches,
feet, millimeters... You can read all of those things. I am going to keep mine at fractional,
inches, and set it to maybe 1/16th of an inch. This is page scale. This is not in scale of the
drawing. Alright, let's go ahead and close that. So, continuing our walk-through. At the top I
have my Toolbar. These are all of the tools that we will use inside of LayOut. So here I
have a Drawing tool, an Art tool, some Shape tools, an Offset tool, Text, Label, Dimensions, Table,
and then we have some options for editing these; which is our, well an Eraser, but then we have a Style-picker,
Split, and Join. We will go into these a in a further piece. For now, I just want to finish the
walk-through. We have some other buttons at the top. The first one right here is my Presentation
mode, where I can go through and use LayOut kind of like a slide-show and go through the
pages. Then my page control buttons, "Add a new page," and flip between pages (left and right)
to go between two different pages. The bulk of what we use inside of LayOut is in our Toolbars
right here. I'm going to do a super high-level buzz through these. The first one is my "SketchUp Model"
This is all the information about this viewport right here, which is a SketchUp view.
This is different from text or drawing a shape, or anything like that. This has a whole lot of data
in here. You can see here, you have all kinds of options here about what is being shown, what
the camera is like, what are the effects, shadow or fog, what style is being used, which tags are
showing. All of that is controlled in the viewport inside of here. We could actually probably spend
an entire time just on this one, but not right now. We will go ahead and close that. We can look
at a couple of other pieces; one is "Layers." So in Layers you have a bunch of different layers. I can
actually create multiple layers, and they are actually layered. So, on every page right here,
if I toggle that on and off, you can see that text disappears. That's on the "On Every Page" layer,
and it's on top of our "Default," which is where the drawing of the chair is. If I were to take
that and drag it underneath Default, look what happens, it disappears because this layer has
white there, and it's covering up that text. So, Layers do work like layers where one
lays on top of another. In here, I can lock and turn on and off layers. I have some options for
dimensions. Again, once we get into Dimensions here, we can see this will let us change how our dimensions
look on the screen. There's some options here for Scaled Drawing, which is something that is,
well two versions back now, that will actually let me go in and draw, at scale, in LayOut. I have my
Pattern Fill, so if I do have shapes, I can go in and put patterns. So if I wanted to do something
like rock or insulation inside of a model, I could do that. Then, we have Scrapbooks. Scrapbooks
are awesome. This is pre-created geometry that I can just drag in and drop right on to the model,
I'm sorry, into a window. I can show it on my drawing screen. They're awesome. These are huge
time savers, we will dig deeper into Scrapbooks to see how great of a timesaver they are. Two panels
left. We have Shape and Style. When something is selected, when anything is selected, I can change
how it is displayed using Shape Style. So, in the case of a drawing like this, it's that stroke
around the outside. This line, this black line, if I wanted to turn it off, I could just toggle,
stroke off, and it disappears. I can turn it back on and change the color if I wanted
to. Everything is controlled from this Shape Style. Finally, we have Pages. You saw before,
we have two different pages here. I can click through those two pages. This is the UI that
is going to let me go through the pages. So, if I don't want to just use the two buttons at the top
to go through a bunch of pages, I can actually do it here too. This is also going to let me
add new pages or duplicate pages to create my LayOut drawing. Okay, so, like I said,
that was basically intended to be an overview and that's really all I wanted to do is show you where
the things are. That's going to be important to get into that before you have to start creating
a document. You have to know where the tools are before you can use them. So, next time, we will
come in and we'll actually start working. Maybe the next thing we do is creating a new document in
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