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Making a Clipping Mask

You can mask out a portion of a model or image by creating a clipping mask. When you create a clipping mask, you see only the portion of the model or image that appears within a shape. To create a clipping mask, follow these steps:

Last updated 17 July 2026

You can mask out a portion of a model or image by creating a clipping mask. When you create a clipping mask, you see only the portion of the model or image that appears within a shape.

To create a clipping mask, follow these steps:

  1. Place a shape over an image or model, as shown in the following figure.
    layout-Mask1.jpg
  2. Select both the shape and the image or model.
  3. Context-click the selection and choose Create Clipping Mask from the context menu that appears. Your image or model is then masked, as shown in the following figure.
    layout-Mask2.jpg

To undo a clipping mask, context-click the clipping mask and select Release Clipping Mask from the menu that appears.

To edit a clipping mask, double-click the masked entity. You can then move, scale, or rotate the image or model in relation to the clipping entity (and vice versa). Click away from the image or model when you're done editing.

Adding and Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts let you customize LayOut to work more efficiently. Through the Shortcuts section of the LayOut Preferences dialog box, you can:View LayOut commands and shortcutsFind specific commandsAdd or edit a shortcutDelete shortcutsLayOut includes the following default 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

Although LayOut has only a slim chance of moonlighting with an illusionist act in Las Vegas, LayOut’s text isn’t always what it seems.

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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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