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- [Instructor] So what do I need to know before

I can tackle this course?

Well the first thing and the main thing,

is that it's a pro version only,

so you'll need to get access somehow to the pro version

of the software.

The second thing is having a working understanding

of SketchUp.

So as we covered in the first series,

looked at SketchUp and creation of the model

from duty drawings then the ability to set those out

with scenes and styles to create second cuts, etcetera.

That's also an important part of this

because there's a nice link between SketchUp and Layout

which we'll look at in a bit.

The other thing that's quite useful

is understand how architectural drawings go together.

Now you might be doin' this to learn a little bit

about that so I'll try my best to explain

the whole process and why you'd lay something out

like you would.

But that's all part of learning how to be an architect.

Or if you're a practiced architect already,

all that you'll need to know is how to get them

into the right format.

So we'll be covering all the basics of this course.

We won't be going into massive amounts of detail.

So a little bit of skill with graphics

would be useful.

A little bit of skill with SketchUp

would also be useful.

And just understanding so that the reasons why

you'd want to lay something out like you do

is also going to be useful, but not essential.

Okay, feel free to come into this with no experience

at all on architectural drawings

and we'll try to get you to understand a little bit

of the why's and wherefore's of laying out drawings

they way in which we do.

Also also, and most importantly, why layout

is something you should never ignore

when you've spend an awful lot of time creating models

inside of SketchUp.

Now we've got one more piece of housekeeping to cover

and that's relating to the exercise files,

if you have access to them.

And then we can start learning how to use Layout.