Dressing up your text can add that extra professional touch to your LayOut document. For example, you might match the fonts and colors to your company’s or your client’s branding. And you definitely want to size the text so it’s easy to read. Much like any word processor or other program that handles text, LayOut also enables you to apply character formatting (such as bold, italics, color, superscript, and more) and paragraph formatting (such as horizontal alignment, vertical anchoring, line spacing, and lists). The following sections guide you through all your options.

Although documents tend to include more visual elements than text, you likely want a little text to add headings, bullet points, or other text to your document. In LayOut, you use the Text tool () to type text into a bounded or unbounded text box. You can also bring text into LayOut by importing a supported text document. In the following sections, you find out how all these text options work.

Although LayOut has only a slim chance of moonlighting with an illusionist act in Las Vegas, LayOut’s text isn’t always what it seems.

Images can enhance your LayOut documents all sorts of ways, from a photorealistic rendering of a proposed design to a small branding element like a logo. The following table outlines the file formats that LayOut supports. You can insert an image file in any of these formats into your document.

Every once in a while, depending on your SketchUp and LayOut preferences or perhaps the capabilities of your computer, SketchUp model entities don’t display well or at all in the LayOut document area. In this article, you find details and solutions to the most common SketchUp model entity display issues.

Although LayOut enables you to edit view and style settings without switching back to SketchUp, LayOut doesn't enable you to edit the actual model. For that, you must open the model file in SketchUp. When you need to edit the geometry or other SketchUp-only features, LayOut does make it easy to open a model in SketchUp and keep the updated SketchUp file synched with your LayOut document. Here's a quick look at the ways LayOut helps you manage changes and updates to SketchUp models:

In LayOut, you can change the view of your model or its style settings right within the model entity. This timesaving feature enables you to make adjustments without endlessly switching back and forth between the SketchUp and LayOut applications, or having to redo even more complex processes that other presentation programs require so that your model presentation stays up to date.

LayOut is mainly for showing off your SketchUp models. To insert a SketchUp model into a LayOut document, follow these steps:

LayOut’s most distinctive, time-saving, awesome feature is its ability to display SketchUp model files and synchronize your SketchUp file and your LayOut file almost automagically. For example, after you import a SketchUp file into your LayOut document:

In LayOut, you can create as many pages as your document needs and manage them all right from the Pages panel. The Pages menu also has commands to help you a manage and navigate LayOut document pages. For example, in the following figure, the Pages panel shows that this document includes six pages. You can use the Pages panel to add or duplicate pages, give each page an intuitive name, or delete or hide pages. You can also use the pages panel to navigate among your pages.