Layout is also very important material and 2D companion for SketchUp pro. The layout enables you to create professional design, documents, dimensioned drawings and presentation from 3D models. The dimensioned drawing presentation is really impressive. There is strong integration between Layout & SketchUp resulting decrease the time required to make CDs.
Three important reason can be driven out, why you use Layout by just watching the vedio above?
No more exporting:
Dimension Drawing:
Once document instead of two:
One can simply ass text, documents & 2D elements to 3D models to build interactive presentation. It allows so much flexibility and revision combined with the ability to create quick dynamic presentation. This SketchUp material can be regarded as Compelling Solution too as designing in SketchUp & presenting in Layout gives unlimited flexibility.