LayOut's line and shape tools make it easy to draw visual elements that give your document a polished look.With the tools available in LayOut, you can better organize the content on each page of your document.Learn more about drawing with LayOut’s line and shape tools with these articles:

To select an on-screen element in LayOut, you just click it with the Select tool (). You can then move, resize, rotate, or otherwise edit the selection. If only changing an actual building were that easy! Like SketchUp, LayOut has a few tricks for selecting multiple entities, too:

The first thing you will see when opening LayOut is the Welcome Window. The Welcome Window is where you can create new files from templates and continue work on ongoing projects.

The LayOut interface contains the tools and features you need to create 2D documents and presentations from your 3D models. LayOut and SketchUp are made to work together. Many tools and features in LayOut work a lot like they do in SketchUp.Each part of the LayOut interface provides a different set of options to help you with your documents.

LayOut is packed with tools and features to help you create high-quality documents and presentations of your SketchUp models.

LayOut and SketchUp Pro are designed to work together.After you insert a SketchUp models into a LayOut document, you can design the document to highlight your 3D model's best features. If you ever need to change or update your original SketchUp model, you can update the model in LayOut so that all the details are synched automatically.