SketchUp

A
Application Window - The entire application window for LayOut. The Drawing Window contains menus, toolbars, the status bar, and the Drawing Area. See also Drawing Area.

C

CAD - See Computer Assisted Design

Chord Length - The distance between the starting point and the ending point of an Arc.

Clipping Mask - The use of a shape to 'mask out' portions of the model, image, or other entities, underneath the shape.

Context Menu - A menu of menu items or commands available in a particular context, such as when a line or component is selected.

Crossing Selection - Refers to using the Select tool and clicking to the right-side of entities and dragging to the left to select entities.

D

Default Layer - The layer in a presentation on which all entities are initially placed.

Dialog Stack - Dialog boxes arranged such that they form a stack.

Dirty SketchUp Model - A model whose properties have been changed in LayOut, but has not been rerendered to reflect the changes. Dirty models are indicated by a yellow icon with an exclamation point.

Document Area - The area where you construct your document.

Drawing tool - A software tool used to create shapes from scratch.

E

Edge - An edge is a line that borders some closed shape such as a rectangle.

Entity - The smallest graphical building blocks in LayOut. Entities are combined to create presentations.

F

Fill - Inside color of a shape.

G

Group - See Group entity.

Group entity - An entity that contains other entities. Groups are commonly used to combine several entities into a single entity for the purposes of performing a quick operation, such as a copy and paste.

I

Inference - The identification of relationships between entities in the drawing area. These relationships are identified and pointed out to the user by the inferencing engine and can be used as references for drawing in 3D space.

Inference Engine - Functionality built into LayOut to locate or infer points from other points in your model, such as the center of a circle, the midpoint of a line, a point on surface, a point on an edge, and so on. The Inference Engine notifies you of these points by using both color indicators and on-screen messages indicating the location of the cursor as you draw an entity. For example, LayOut displays the string 'On Line' when the Pencil tool is on a line.

L

Layer - Layers are used to control the visibility of geometry within large models. A LayOut layer is an attribute with a name, such as 'Layer0,' 'Layer9,' or 'Chairs.' Elements can be assigned different layers.

Layer Manager - A dialog box used to apply and manage layers in your model

M

Master Page - A page-layout term referring to a page that contains entities that you want to appear in all of the pages in your document. LayOut uses master layers instead of master pages.

Measurements Field - The 'Measurements' field displays dimensional information while you draw. You can also enter values into the 'Measurements' field to manipulate the selected entity.

Modal dialog box - A dialog box that temporarily prohibits the user's interaction with the application. Modal dialog boxes usually require the user to perform some action prior to returning to normal application use.

Models dialog box - A dialog box that does not prohibit the user's interaction with the application. See also Modal dialog box.

Move Point - The point where you click on the entity with the Move tool.

O

Origin - The point where the Drawing Axes start or originate.

P

Page - Similar to a slide in presentation software, a page consists of your model and a series of page-specific settings, such as a specific point of view, shadow, display setting, and section cut. Pages can be combined to form TourGuide presentations in LayOut.

Presentation Area - The area where you create your presentation.

S

Scrapbook - A mechanism for storing and organizing libraries of models, image, shapes, text, and styles that you want to use in all of your presentations

Shape - A closed series of entities, such as lines forming a box shape or freehand lines forming an irregular shape.

Stroke - Line or edge style (color, thickness, and so on).

Shared Layer - A special layer that contains any entities that you want to appear in all of the pages in your document.

Stroke - Line or edge style (color, thickness, and so on).

Style - Refers to the rendering options on the shape or model. For shape, style refers to the fill within a rectangle, the stroke (line color, width, end styles) of a line, or the shape of a font . If the entity is a SketchUp model, style refers to the rendering options on the model, such as shadow state and face and edge rendering styles.

W

Window Selection - Refers to using the Select tool and clicking to the left-side of entities and dragging to the right to select entities.