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Inserting Images

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.

Last updated 17 July 2026

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.

File Format

What It's Used For

.bmp or .dib

These bitmap formats can display black-and-white or color images on most devices.

.jpg, .jpeg or .jfif

Most digital cameras store photos in the .jpg or .jpeg format, which can compress images to lower their file size.

.gif

The .gif format does a good job of displaying basic graphics, like logos with only a few colors, while keeping the file size small.

.png

The .png displays drawings, graphics, and screen shots well, with small file sizes. In the past decade, this format has become a popular alternative to .gif.

.tif or .tiff

Images in these formats can be photos or graphics, and typically have the largest file size of any format. These files have no compression and are typically used in high-quality printing.

.pdf (Mac OS X only)

PDFs are often used to share print layouts and designs, but the format works just as well for images, too. You can also insert a .pdf file as an image if you use LayOut on a Mac.

Ready to import your image into your LayOut document? Follow these steps:

  1. Select File > Insert . An Open dialog box appears.
  2. Navigate to the image file on your hard drive.
  1. Select the file you want to insert, as shown in the following figure, and click Open . Your image appears in the drawing area, where you can move, rotate, or scale the image by clicking and dragging the bounding box controls with the Select tool.
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Adding and Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

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Adding Tables to a Document

Whether you’re an architect, woodworker, or engineer — basically, anyone who creates construction documents — you probably need to add tables to those documents. With LayOut’s table feature, you can create and edit tables of text in LayOut or import table data from an Excel file (.xlsx) or a .csv file.

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Adding Text, Labels, and Dimensions

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Applying SketchUp Styles

SketchUp styles bundle preset line widths, colors, materials, and other similar effects. In LayOut, you can change a SketchUp model’s style in the styles section of the SketchUp Model panel.

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Applying Styles

With LayOut’s Style tool (), you can sample the style settings applied to one entity and apply those same settings to another entity.To apply a style from one entity to another, follow these steps:

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