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Saving a LayOut Document

To save your LayOut document, follow these steps:If this is the first time saving your document, select File > Save or File > Save As.Navigate to the location on your hard drive where you want to save the document.In the File Name box, type a name for your document.Click Save.LayOut uses an auto-save function and

Last updated 17 July 2026

To save your LayOut document, follow these steps:

  1. If this is the first time saving your document, select File > Save or File > Save As.
  2. Navigate to the location on your hard drive where you want to save the document.
  3. In the File Name box, type a name for your document.
  4. Click Save.

LayOut uses an auto-save function and backup files to help make sure your documents aren’t lost to crashes or file corruption.

After saving a document for the first time, LayOut saves a backup every 5 minutes by default. To change these settings, see Setting Preferences.

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Backup files are saved in the same folder you’ve set as the default for your other LayOut files.

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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Still need help?

Technical support from our New Zealand team is available to customers with a current Procadsys SketchUp Pro Plus or SketchUp Studio Plus subscription. Self-help articles are public.

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