In this video, Mike walks through the final and crucial step of the SketchUp-to-LayOut workflow: running the ConDoc Drawing Export. This single button automates an enormous amount of work—bundling scenes into grouped drawings, stacking viewports, applying optimized render settings, and assigning proper line weights based on scale.

Mike demonstrates how to choose drawing sets and adjust scales, explaining why certain views (like sections) often benefit from thicker line weights. He covers how perspective scale presets (small, medium, large) affect line thickness and advises defaulting to lighter weights for flexibility.

He flags a potential issue: running the export while the ConDoc Drawing scrapbook is open in LayOut can crash the program. The fix? Switch to a different scrapbook before exporting.

Once the export is complete, Mike opens a new LayOut document, selects a ConDoc title block, and starts building the drawing set. He lays out foundation plans, construction plans, roof plans, elevations, and sections—demonstrating smart viewport alignment, scaling tricks, and how to avoid common gotchas like off-sheet views.

He wraps by discussing render performance in LayOut, toggling settings to optimize for responsiveness. His final reminder: adjust render quality based on your computer’s specs—but always export at high resolution.

The next video will cover using the ConDoc Annotation Scrapbook to dimension and annotate drawings.