"SketchUp & Layout for Architecture" is written by Matt Donley and Nick Sonder. Today I will be talking about it
My mom is a part of a group that brainstorms ideas for their businesses. One of these people in the group is "Matt Donley." He is an experienced SketchUp user. He wrote a book called "SketchUp & Layout for Architecture" where he takes you through a step by step process of constructing a house and getting it ready to be built. Not only that but it gives you a detailed instructions on how to use the different tools in SketchUp & Layout. You use Layout to literally lay your model out. Let's say you created a building and want to print up the blueprint for it, you would use Layout to do that. He came over last week and gave me a signed copy of his book
Matt Donley went to several Maker Faires where he found SketchUp and later helped the SketchUp team present their program. He also went to a 3D Boot camp and did a presentation on SketchUp. While he was there, he met up with Nick Sonder who is a architect and talked about SketchUp and such. After talking it over a bit Matt found that Nick needed someone to uncover any problems in his building model. Matt found that there are other people wanting the same thing, but couldn't find anyone to do it. Basically how it works is he gets the blueprint of the model and reconstructs it in SketchUp. If he finds any errors in it he would tag it and then once done reconstructing the building he would send it back the his employer and his employer would fix it up and that would go to the contractor building the house or building.
Let's say you didn't double check for any errors in your model and you sent it off. Well, let's say you have a wall that goes out in a vertical line in your model but when you look at the blueprint it shows it going horizontally. You would want to fix those problems before sending them out to be used to construct the building. If you didn't do that, once the building was finished you would find that the person you hired to build it decided to make it horizontal and it made the building look funny.