The most basic templates set your document's paper size and orientation. To create a new LayOut document you will need to choose a template. Now you can follow the steps in the earlier section, Adding a pattern, to use the image as a pattern in your LayOut document.The first thing you will see when opening LayOut is the Welcome Window. The file appears in the In-Document Patterns area of the Pattern Fill panel. In the Open dialog box that appears, navigate to your file, select it, and click Open.From the drop-down list at the top of the panel, select Import Custom Pattern.If the panel isn't visible on-screen, select Window > Pattern Fill. In your LayOut document, open the Pattern Fill panel by clicking its title bar.tiffĪfter you save the file to your hard drive, follow these steps: If you have a graphics file that you'd like to use as a pattern, you can import the file into LayOut, which supports the following raster image file formats. To line up patterns on shapes that already exist, select the Style tool ( ), click the shape whose origin point you want to sample, and then click the shape whose pattern you want to line up with the first. While the pattern is still active in the Shape Style panel, every shape you draw shares the same pattern origin point. Tip: When you create a shape that's filled with a pattern, the pattern's origin is the first point you click. In the following figure, you see the Black Pen 1 pattern, which you find by selecting the Tonal Patterns > Sketchy Pen Lines subfolder in the Pattern Fill panel. If you'd like to use a custom pattern, you need to import the pattern image first, as explained in the following section, Importing a custom pattern. Select a folder from the available options to choose one of LayOut's preset patterns.In the Pattern Fill panel, make sure All Patterns is selected from the drop-down list at the top of the panel.Your shape is filled with a default pattern, and the Pattern Fill panel opens, as shown in the following figure. Clicking the Pattern option tells LayOut you want to fill the selected shape with a pattern. Click the Pattern option, which becomes highlighted.With the Select tool ( ), select the shape you want to fill with a pattern.To fill a shape with a pattern, follow these steps: Activating the Text, Label, or a dimension tool sets the Shape Style settings only for the active tool. Activating the Select, Line, Arc, Rectangle, Circle, or Polygon tool sets the default for all those tools. Note: To set the default Fill settings, activate a tool and then select your desired settings. In the following figure, you see that the two lines are filled with dark blue, which will add a little color to the document. To see the result, click a blank spot in the drawing area so that your shape is deselected.See Choosing Colors for help navigating the options in the Colors panel. In the Colors panel that appears, select a fill color for your shape.Click the color well next to the Fill option.Clicking the Fill option tells LayOut you want to apply Fill settings to the selection. Click the Fill option, which becomes highlighted, as shown in the following figure.(If you don't see the panel on-screen, select Window > Shape Style from the menu bar.) Open the Shape Style panel by clicking its title bar.With the Select tool ( ), select the shape in the drawing area.

Whatever shape you want to fill, simply draw the shape and then follow these steps: Extracting Source Content from a LayOut File.Exporting or Printing Your LayOut Document.

Customizing the Interface and Setting Preferences.

Working with Scrapbooks of Reusable Entities.

Arranging, Moving, Rotating, and Scaling Entities.Copying and Pasting, Locking, Erasing, and Other Editing Tasks.Bending Lines and Shapes with Paths and Points.Filling Shapes with Colors and Patterns.Splitting and Joining to Create Complex Shapes.Use the Zoom and Pan tool to view your model.

Sketchup layout images