What's New in Sketchup 2024 Expect a faster Graphics Engine, enhanced Building Information Modelling(BIM) documentation, a new Scan-to-design feature, Ambient Occlusion and more! Better Collaboration A main theme of this update focuses on streamlining how people share their work, while using different software/ tools. Part of this is link sharing for the desktop version of SketchUp via Trimble Connect. LayOut has moved to a versionless model, meaning that it is now backwards compatible with older files. This means that you do not need to update LayOut in future to view newer files, making it much easier to manage collaborators who are not able to update their software. Boost Performance, Enhance Collaboration With stunning visualization features, you have the best opportunities to explore your creativity like never before. Plus, you get to try out new features that are part of SketchUp LABS. Faster Graphics Engine: The latest version of SketchUp desktop application (Pro and Studio users) and LayOut boasts a new graphics engine, resulting in a more responsive user experience. Tests indicate an average 8x increase in speed, making model navigation significantly smoother and faster. With faster speeds, get buy–in faster. In LayOut, the graphics engine draws entities on pages (and redraws them as you zoom, pan, and change pages). 2D or 3D, you can communicate it all in one place: all the angles, all the details, all the context, much faster now! Scan to Design for iPad Imagine walking into a client's space, holding up your iPad to scan, and instantly generating a 3D model. With this new feature, you can now scan existing interior spaces to capture detailed conditions and measurements.​ ​​Generate a photographic visualization of 3D space you can reference for existing conditions. This option is handy for collaborating with clients onsite: generate the scan and annotate it in Markup Mode to present quick design possibilities. Jump into a simplified, untextured 3D model made up of just the SketchUp edges and faces you’re already used to working with, allowing you to start exploring design concepts immediately. Ambient Occlusion SketchUp has a new global style setting to give your designs depth with built-in real-time rendering capabilities - Ambient Occlusion. These features can be transferred over to LayOut viewports. And it is backwards compatible with older SketchUp files that you can open in SketchUp 2024! LayOut supports Ambient Occlusion styles, allowing you to easily toggle them on and off when creating 2D drawings. When you turn on Ambient Occlusion in the SketchUp Scenes you use in LayOut, the visuals will automatically update throughout your LayOut file. Advanced visualization workflows at your fingertips In addition to enhancing the visual outputs, SketchUp has also made complex rendering and animation processes more accessible than ever. Improved import and export functionality for USDZ and glTF files allows seamless transitions between SketchUp and other industry-standard tools. Use these files in real-time applications like NVIDIA Omniverse or Epic Games’ Twinmotion for rendered animations and advanced XR viewing experiences. Share your 3D model with anyone efficently Link Sharing is now available on Desktop allowing you to show the full 3D model or Scenes you’ve selected with clients or collaborators. Your designs can be viewed even if the other party does not have a SketchUp subscription. With Trimble Connect you can easily share a link to a view-only version of your model and quickly access your .skp files across devices. Imagine how much time you can save by skipping so many steps: No more exporting one-off, flattened visuals or spending time documenting, formatting, and exporting project updates! Amplify your productivity with other updates IFC Import and Export Improvements – Importing IFC files into SketchUp is now faster and more predictable. There has been multiple updates to IFC-4 exports that help maintain data consistency and optimized files, including a geometry tessellation option and multiple upgrades to how your components are exported. USDZ & gITF Interoperability – Newly added import and export functionality for both USDZ and gITF files opens up new possibilities for advanced visualization workflows and seamless transitions to and from industry-standard digital content creation tools Add Location – The new Add Location simplifies the process of adding high-quality, accurate terrain, including an updated workflow, a visible True North arrow, and improved import options. 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"The flexibility of SketchUp allows the entire team, including clients, specialists, and contractors to keep up." Jason Li, Head of M Moser DIST (Design Integration, Simulation and Technology) Global Group and Charles Corley, M Moser's Director of Organisational Development shared about how virtual design and construction complements an integrated project design and delivery approach. Over the past fifteen years, M Moser Associates , a global AEC firm with an extensive track record in workplace design and construction, has used SketchUp not only for design and conceptualization but as a vital communication tool throughout the project delivery process. What does the term "VDC" mean to M Moser? Charles:  It’s Virtual Design and Construction and by that we mean an entirely constructible 3D modeling workflow that empowers any stakeholder to understand and participate in a project. We can create a working virtual environment that makes everything clear to all project participants regardless of training or experience. Rather than relying on a highly coded or flat and disassembled, abstract set of documents, a visual reference is universal. A desk looks like a desk; a wall looks like a wall. You don't need an expert interpreter of construction documents in order to understand fully and collaborate. M Moser prefers to own as much of the responsibility on a project as possible. The best case scenario is we’re the designer, engineer, purchaser, and contractor. The deliverable, if you will, is the completed project. Throughout all of our offices worldwide, we use virtual design and construction out of a need to have everybody understand each other. We have an array of cultures, understandings, and backgrounds in construction. We want people to engage meaningfully and get the best out of each other’s contribution and expertise by constructing a project in SketchUp well before reaching the site. VDC is a communication tool that gets everybody on the path to the right result. What types of projects do you focus on as a business? Charles:  We design and build workplaces. Not only corporate offices but corporate campuses, laboratories, private hospitals, private education facilities, and workplaces of all types. You name it, we've done it. Using a nimble tool like SketchUp is also extremely important as these types of projects can be ever-changing. With more traditional building projects you have to nail down things well before construction for many reasons such as permitting, structural calculations, and ordering materials. But workplaces, even extremely large ones, can remain fluid in design. Even the size of the premises could change considerably. Departments can move around. Mergers and acquisitions could change the whole landscape of the office. Is there anything unique about the way you operate? Charles:  In some ways, we’re sort of the enfant terrible. We're radical about change and are constantly evolving the way we think about construction information. Where many firms are steeped in more traditional documentation, we're trying to make any record of construction information a by-product of the real collaboration and 3D work. We don't want to send out stacks of documents to people who have never seen it before and say, "Go read this and get back to us with a price." We'd rather have them involved from the very beginning. This means, all the trades, contractors, suppliers, and the client works together in 3D, from concept to completion. We're trying to shake the tree were a lot of people don't want to change. Jason and I have a lot of war stories about how people are incredibly stubborn to change and don’t wish to consider alternatives. We've broken down a lot of assumptions like, “You can't use SketchUp for official documents to send to the government,” or “It’s not accurate enough,” or “We can’t collaborate with consultants using other programs.” These arguments have melted and fallen by the wayside. Jason:  M Moser could be considered quite unique in the industry because our focus is not just on the design. We have to consider the contractors and the building. For many companies, their role ends when they hand over the designs and completed documents, whereas we handover a complete result. And even beyond that, our role sometimes continues into operation and maintenance. Your designers are charged with producing constructible models. Can they do this on the first pass? Charles: Not every designer has the experience to really understand construction. They tend to draw the design intent, then they have to work with others to discover what’s possible. As an example, just recently we had a team discussing an intricate reception counter. The contractor in the room pointed out: "If the table were four inches shorter, we could use off-the-shelf components and wouldn’t have to manufacture any custom pieces." The designer made the change right then, rationalizing that it wouldn’t really impact the overall look but offered a significant reduction in cost and lead-time. Thousands of collaborative discussions like this occur constantly, many of which wouldn’t be possible in 2D. Jason:   We collaborate on a daily basis; it's not really like a factory where I do my job and pass to someone else, or “Here's a stack of drawings, you go and do it." Projects are realized through discussion and brainstorming. People have different backgrounds and this way we can truly avoid misinterpretations of what the designer intended. As an example, just recently we had a team discussing an intricate reception counter. The contractor in the room pointed out: "If the table were four inches shorter, we could use off-the-shelf components and wouldn’t have to manufacture any custom pieces." The designer made the change right then, rationalizing that it wouldn’t really impact the overall look but offered a significant reduction in cost and lead-time. Thousands of collaborative discussions like this occur constantly, many of which wouldn’t be possible in 2D. We collaborate on a daily basis; it's not really like a factory where I do my job and pass to someone else, or “Here's a stack of drawings, you go and do it." Projects are realized through discussion and brainstorming. People have different backgrounds and this way we can truly avoid misinterpretations of what the designer intended. People will always have differing opinions, so does it always go to plan? Charles:  What you would see in our meetings would be a group of people from very different professions, looking at a model being rotated on a large screen. The person leading the meeting is not coming up with all the answers, they’re the "chief question-asker."  The team answers the issues together, marking the live model and taking screen captures. They talk about what needs to change and sometimes even make these changes on-the-fly. It's very much a team activity. The notion of success mostly comes from the client but often there are multiple opinions. One might say, "I want to make sure I have the correct amount of meeting rooms;" another person says, "I want to make sure we finish on time;" another, "I want to make sure my boss coming from overseas is happy," and so on. Those objectives blend together and form the definition of a successful project. Jason:   We're using VDC as a methodology to ensure designers, engineers, professionals, specialists, and the client can communicate on an equal platform. Our goal is that everybody understands the project objectives to achieve results. Virtual construction sequencing can save months onsite Building constructible 3D models look to be a time-consuming exercise. Is it more efficient than it seems? Charles:  Many would say that you can do something in AutoCAD faster or easier than you can in SketchUp. We have found that is not the case if you use it intelligently. There is often a false understanding of time efficiency. Hand a project to a couple of draftsmen and they may spend hundreds of hours doing the drawings, not taking the time to understand construction. A senior stakeholder would then have to go through each page of the drawings to check them, applying the required 20 years of experience to effectively decipher them. Then there are the perspectives. Visualizers can spend an inordinate amount of time setting up beautiful—but only a limited number of—renders. All those hours really add up. Jason:   VDC forces the people who are doing the drawings to think about what they're building, they can't just draw lines. With our methodology, the modeler creates everything in SketchUp. Then they split the model into different viewports in LayOut to see right away if something's not working. "The key difference is, any changes are immediately echoed through the entire set. Everybody's job is faster and easier." What perspectives can your clients expect to see in the early design stages? Jason:  We do aim to deliver spectacular visuals to help convey our idea. At one time, we had a team of visualization specialists dedicated to rendering, but it became a bottleneck because time had to be booked with the few 3D visualizers trained in that software. We now have established ways to do as much as we can in SketchUp, which is the fastest way. There isn’t a steep learning curve. Everybody can have it and everybody can use it to develop gorgeous renderings with extensions. We don't need so many specialists. In Shanghai and Singapore, we use renderers such as Enscape. In India, we lean more toward CPU-based renderers, including SU Podium. Charles:   We also had a problem with third-party drawn perspectives. A designer would freestyle to make something look better. In this process, they might have a detailed understanding of what the interior would look like, but would often leave out the air vents, access panels, joint lines, and sprinklers because they thought they were ugly. Even worse, they would enlarge or shrink objects to give a false impression of what one would experience. By transitioning to the VDC methodology, we ensure that perspectives remain true to life. We can also deliver beautiful renders instantly, so you can quickly look at things from a different point of view. There's a nimbleness that is lost when creating perspectives with other workflows where the same limited views are updated over and over again. Does your methodology transverse regions? Charles:  We developed our approach because we work with contractors trained in very different ways and to some extent that continues today. However, we think that the constructability aspect of VDC is applicable anywhere. There's a great deal of value in being able to do virtual mock-ups and say, "Are you sure this is what you want? Because look here, this could be improved." "Constructible models eliminate wasted resource and materials and allow for an unprecedented attention to detail before reaching the site." If you think of everything in a project as separate systems that must come together, there’s a huge amount of coordination required in what was traditionally called the design development stage. We now choose to call this integrated development because we are essentially combining the power, lighting, partition, and furniture systems. The integrated development stage is where much of the change occurs and decisions are made. Documentation for the record is memorializing what we had agreed during all this collaborative effort. Documents may be still necessary for now but they record what was already worked out and understood by all and don’t serve to gain that agreement. That was done through a highly constructible model—a virtual construction. About M Moser Associates M Moser Associates has specialized in the design and delivery of workplace environments since 1981, with clients from the corporate, private healthcare, and education sectors. With over 900 staff in 16 offices on three continents, the company provides a holistic approach to physical and digital workplace environments of all scales. Inspired to tackle your next great project with a smooth, effective workflow? 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Have you heard of escapes rooms before? Well, Nashville-based The Escape Game uses SketchUp to help design all of their escape rooms. Players range from all ages, and there are options to pick different themed escape rooms. Themes range from exciting and action-packed to silly and light-hearted. Popular themes include bank heists, prison breaks, and pirates. Here's a Q&A with the team in Nashville where they shared how they use SketchUp throughout their creative process. Using SketchUp to build out the entire New Orleans location for The Escape Game. Tell us a little bit about The Escape Game and how it started. One of our founders, Mark Flint, played in an escape room while in Europe. To say it was a big “aha” moment would be an understatement. After returning to Tennessee, Mark teamed up with Jonny and James Murrell to create The Escape Game. Soon after launch, The Escape Game became the number one thing to do on TripAdvisor Nashville and our “I Escaped” stickers were spotted all over town. From there, it’s been an exciting time of growth — new team members, new games, new locations, and new product offerings. Everyone works together to design and deliver epic interactive experiences for every single guest that encounters our brand. Our mission and values are our compass and unite the team across the country. This might be pretty obvious, but what’s the idea behind escape rooms — and why do people love them so much? I think people love escape rooms because for a period of time, phones are down and they are really connecting with friends and family. People love how interactive it is, how challenging it is, and how fun it gets when you put a group of people in a room and give them only an hour to complete a mission. There are always a few laugh-out-loud moments. Also, the idea of taking part in an adventure is really, really exciting. Where else can you escape prison, repair a spaceship on Mars, or take part in a heist? Who hasn’t wanted to be a part of a heist!? We offer people a way to live these adventures rather than just watch them on a screen! What is SketchUp used for, and how did the team get started using it? We started using SketchUp when our games became more complex. We had different departments that needed to communicate and understand the full design idea to complete their work. Now, we use SketchUp to help us build out our warehouses, storefronts, escape rooms, and the parts and pieces that make up the escape rooms. We don’t just use it to help determine the flow of an escape room - we use it for everything, even building the final room. Using SketchUp to build out the parts and pieces including the busts highlighted here in The Heist escape room. What’s the creative process for The Escape Game? It’s a very collaborative process and it takes a lot of talented people to bring one of our adventures to life. That being said, it always starts with the guest. We aren’t making what we think is cool, we are making what our guests tell us they want. Over 2 million people have played our games and we have watched each one of them intently to learn more about what really excites them. When picking themes, we run surveys and talk to guests before starting down any path. Once we have a theme, the game team begins working on the flow of the game, while the brand team begins working on the story and thematic elements. Once the story is ready, our designers begin designing the space and our creative shop begins R&D and building the game elements. It’s a process that involves a lot of testing and demo games. We keep working until we feel like we have it just right with the difficulty level, flow, and amount of content for the player count. During demos, we hang on to every word our testers say during and after the game. We are guest-obsessed and we want it to be perfect. What does a normal workflow in SketchUp look like for the team? We start with inspirational images of what we want the room to feel like. We begin to use Sketchup to conceptually design our rooms from the scenic elements to the individual interactive game components. From there, we are able to show these pictures to our scenic team who will design all of the components in the room directly via SketchUp. Before we spend a dime on materials, we want to see what it’s going to look like so we try to make it look as lifelike as possible. We use Lumion for rendering and virtual reality headsets to experience the design. Once we have all signed off, we take these designs from the production designers and send them to the shop to produce in the warehouse. How does SketchUp benefit the design process for Escape Game? SketchUp helps us visualize and test new ideas in 3D before we build these rooms or storefronts. It saves us time and costly rework designing it upfront. It also allows us to clearly communicate the design to different teams to ensure we are on the same page, reducing errors and miscalculations. Fabrication sounds like a big part of the overall design process for these escape rooms. How does SketchUp help with this? We build almost everything in the house — from windows to walls to specialized pieces. Before we purchase the materials to build anything, we design it all in SketchUp to make sure everything will fit and look the way it’s supposed to. Our typical fabrication workflow is: Design it in SketchUp Purchase the materials Manufacture the components Decorate and paint the components Send it to R&D for testing Send it to the technology group for any technical requirements Lastly, ship it to The Escape Game location to use All pieces are built in multiple steps so they can withstand wear and tear from guests. Once they are all built to a standard, they are sent off to the store. Building out the escape rooms, one SketchUp file at a time. How does The Escape Game differentiate itself from other escape rooms in the industry? Unlike other escape rooms, we build most everything in-house. From the initial design concepts to the actual fabrication of parts and pieces in the room, we do it all. We are very mindful during our design process and take into account how the guests will interact with the space. We want it special for everyone. SketchUp helps us capture what the feel of the space will be before it’s built. We want to be at the cutting edge of experiential design. Also, our obsession with guest experiences is unique at our price point. Above all else, we serve our guests well The Escape Game not only has on-site locations but also an online escape room. Could you tell us a little bit about the online room? We’ve put a lot of energy into online and at-home experiences. We want people to be able to experience our escape rooms in the comfort of their own homes. These digital and online offerings include a virtual game room experience, a live escape room that you can play with friends, a board game, and educational games for students. This is a completely new direction for us and we are really excited about these new products. For more information about The Escape Game, check out these important links: Official Website Digital and at-home games Online escape room-style mystery game Keen to try out SketchUp? Sign up for a free trial with us here.

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Our partner ACA Pacific conducted a workshop on 17 August 2023. Topics covered included : SketchUp Ecosystem Updates. New Features for 3D Warehouse Some key takeaways: SketchUp is an ecosystem of tools to create 3D designs Users love creating 3D models on SketchUp for VIsual Design (3D Design) - it's how we are experience the world The millions of assets in SketchUp Warehouse means users do not need to create designs from scratch. AR/VR/ Mixed Reality can help bring your designs to live With SketchUp for iPad - you can take your file and look at it in AR. Reach out to us if you are keen to have a free complementary training when you purchase Sketchup Pro or Sketchup Studio from us. This training would be free of charge and will be conducted online as a webinar.

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SketchUp makes sharing ideas and designs easy for everyone with 3D visualisation SketchUp 2024 "Scan-to-design" tool turns scans from iPad into 3D models [Singapore, April 23, 2024] - Effective collaboration is essential in design projects, and SketchUp 2024 elevates this experience by introducing enhanced features. Trimble has announced updates for the user-friendly 3D modeling software, delivering performance upgrades ranging from a new graphics engine to easier ways to share designs with stakeholders. Due to its versatility, SketchUp is used for various applications, including movie set or game designs, architectural, landscape or interior designs, optimising retail or warehouse layout efficiency, urban planning, event planning, and more. ​ SketchUp 2024 includes new features from SketchUp Labs (LABS), a public Beta program that allows users to test and explore tools in development. New LABS features include: “Scan-to-Design" on iPad: Users can easily turn scans from their iPad into 3D models. Using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) sensors on Apple Pro devices, detailed measurements of interior spaces can be captured and shared with collaborators/contractors. Responsive graphic engine for LayOut: Early adopters have noted performance improvements. Navigation speeds can be up to 8.4x faster for file navigation and responsiveness. ​​ Save Time and Boost productivity with better project alignment 2024 offers a new layer of realism and innovative visual styles directly within the SketchUp interface, along with updates that amplify productivity. SketchUp 2024 catalyzes collaboration, offering a unified platform where stakeholders can converge and exchange ideas effortlessly. Enhanced Building Information Modelling (BIM): Industry Foundation Class (IFC) import and export capabilities can help bring together different teams within one central ecosystem. Users can export components with files containing special characters, making it easy for multi-language references. For teams and contractors using different digital creation tools, users can navigate between SketchUp and other advanced platforms. Share a Link: For early iterations or ease of viewing of 3D visuals, clients and project members have access to view-only models that they can navigate in a browser; without any need to login or use SketchUp software. Ambient Occlusion: users can add visual emphasis to highlighting space and achieve greater depth between objects to create visually realistic previews. ​​Enhanced Interoperability: Complex rendering and animation processes are more accessible with improved import and export functionality for USDZ and glTF file formats. The files can be used in real-time applications like NVIDIA Omniverse or Epic Games’ Twinmotion for rendered animations and advanced XR viewing experiences. ​ Rise of the Maker Community SketchUp's community continues to expand, and its free-to-use 3D Warehouse has over 5 million searchable pre-made 3D models online. To save time, designers often use pre-made models from SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse to avoid drawing from scratch. In a world where time is money, open access to stock 3D models and textures made by international brands and other 3D artists from all over the world is cost-efficient and helps improve productivity without compromising on quality of work. ​ With Trimble Connect cloud sharing, the updated SketchUp 2024 amplifies collaboration opportunities and simplifies the path to project alignment. ​ “SketchUp 2024 will be a game-changer in the realm of 3D design. Whether users are engaged in immersive walkthroughs or product design, SketchUp 2024 empowers anyone to explore their creativity and share their designs with others. By providing seamless integration with industry-standard file formats, SketchUp enables users to unlock the full potential of their projects, from concept to completion," said Sean Baptist, SketchUp, Head of APAC, Trimble. ​ Baptist added, "SketchUp 2024 can also be used to facilitate seamless transitions to and from SketchUp for advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) and visualization workflows, ultimately driving better project outcomes." ​ SketchUp facilitates smoother communication and collaboration among diverse teams, driving innovation and efficiency across the design lifecycle. Users can generate organic shapes freely, add extensions to amplify their workflow process, or work with pre-built models from 3D Warehouse to save time. ​ SketchUp is offering a new free 7-day trial via www.sketchupmyworld.com for SketchUp Studio, which includes all the tools from the SketchUp 2024 ecosystem. For users with a subscription, access to SketchUp 2024 is available at no additional cost. As of November 2022, SketchUp Classic Licenses are no longer available for sale, but users can continue to use their classic license as long as they have access to it. However, access to the latest features and improvements in SketchUp 2024 is only applicable for SketchUp annual subscriptions. About SketchUp SketchUp is the world's most versatile 3D modeling software, used by more than 30 million designers around the world to create, update and communicate designs in 3D. Trusted by professionals worldwide including many from the film, gaming and maker community, alongside professionals from events, architecture, interior design, product design, engineering, and construction industries, SketchUp’s intuitive interface and robust capabilities and empowers users to bring their creative visions to life with ease. ​ SketchUp’s intuitive interface sets it apart from other 3D visualization tools. This is why it is beneficial for different industries: Architecture: SketchUp is widely used by architects to create detailed building models, visualize design concepts, and communicate ideas to clients. Interior Design: Interior designers use SketchUp to create detailed 3D models of interior spaces, experiment with different layouts and finishes, and present design concepts to clients. Engineering: Engineers use SketchUp to create detailed models of mechanical components, visualize assembly processes, and simulate the performance of systems. Entertainment: SketchUp is used in the entertainment industry to create 3D models of sets, props, and characters for film, television, and video games. Subscription Options: To meet the diverse needs of users, SketchUp offers flexible subscription options tailored to different workflows. The SketchUp Pro subscription includes SketchUp (3D modeler), Layout (2D drafting tool), unlimited Trimble Connect (cloud + collaboration tool), the SketchUp mobile Viewer (including the VR tool), and the SketchUp Style builder. Users seeking advanced capabilities can opt for SketchUp Studio, which includes all the features of SketchUp Pro along with V-Ray rendering and Trimble Scan Essentials.

Introduction To give users in your organisation access to SketchUp: Sign in to the Trimble Admin Console or Account Management Portal (AMP), depending on which account management system your account uses. Make sure you have the appropriate administrator role to manage users and assign licenses. Add the user using their email address, first name, and last name. Assign the appropriate SketchUp product license to the user. Need Help? How User Access Works Each SketchUp subscription is assigned to a single named user. The user's name and email address should match their Trimble account. If the user does not already have a Trimble ID, they will be prompted to create one. Once their account is set up, they can sign in and access the SketchUp products assigned to them. Signing In to SketchUp After a license has been assigned, the user should sign in to SketchUp using the same email address associated with their assigned license. Once signed in, SketchUp connects to Trimble's servers to authenticate the user's access. An internet connection is required periodically to maintain authorization. Users can work offline for up to 28 days before they need to connect to the internet and sign in again. Device Activation A user can activate their SketchUp subscription on up to two devices. However, the subscription can only be actively used on one device at a time. For detailed instructions on adding users and assigning SketchUp licenses, visit here.

Welcome to LayOut: where you'll be turning your SketchUp models into anything but ordinary documents and presentations. To get started, insert a 3D model into LayOut. A window into your model—a viewport—is placed on the page. LayOut is part of SketchUp Pro, designed to make printing, presenting and documenting your SketchUp models fast and easy. More learning, here: http://www.sketchup.com/LearnLayOut