Those are very nice drawings for sure, with clear notation, but you must admit dimensioning is not much in evidence. For example, and it may be because you have compressed the file, the red dimensions on the plan drawing on page 1 are very blurry, whereas the other text is not. - in fact, that whole image (presumably from a section of the sketchup model) is comparatively low resolution.
In the meantime, I have managed to get drawings from a CAD program into Layout and have them print as well as they would direct from the CAD program itself, as the following mini-tutorial explains if people want to give it a shot:
To use dimensioned cad plans in layout:
The secret here is to print from the cad application to a raster image (eg tiff or png) that layout can support, AT 300 DPI, and then scale the image in layout to the correct paper size the image was printed at.
Some apps (like rhino) allow you to do all this from their print dialog, but for others you have to have a printer driver installed that will print to a raster format. A suitable one, that many people will already have installed, is "Microsoft Office Document Image", which, as its name implies, is installed as part of the office suite.
So:
1] set up the drawing in the CAD program however you like.
2] From within the CAD program print dialog, set the properties of the Microsoft image document image printer to your preferred page size, (ie, whatever you are using in layout for your paper size) and also in the advanced tab set the output to "Tiff - monochrome fax" and in the options set the output to 300dpi.
3] Adjust the scale in the CAD print dialog to whatever is appropriate, and then print and save the image.
4] In layout, on a new page, insert the drawing. The drawing will come in centered on the page.
5] While it is still selected, click and drag on one corner WHILE HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY to constrain the image to the correct aspect ratio, and drag the corner out to align with the page corner. Repeat for the opposite corner. It would be nice if you could snap to the edges of the paper, but you can't, but it is pretty easy to eyeball it accurately.
6] Make sure you put this image on its own layer, and that within the layer order it is at the bottom of the list, and locked, so it won't move and your other notation etc that you add is on top of it.
7] When you are ready to print the layout, set the dpi in file/document setup to 300, and then print to your real world printer.
Thats it. - a few other tips:
If you are going to create a pdf, then you can skip step 7, but make sure you set the dpi in the pdf when asked to 300 if it is intended to print the plans from this file at a later date.
Note that Layout is, according to the google guy giving the presentation at basecamp, not really intended to print at paper sizes bigger than A3.
When testing this, include a scale in your CAD file, so you can check with a scale rule that you are getting correctly scaled output.
Finally, make sure the working resolution of the layout document is set to a low dpi, and only increase it to 300 when you are about to print to a real world printer.
cheers
rabbit