I am very new to SketchUp and LayOut. My SketchUp drawings always have a grass and sky image behind them. When I send a drawing to LayOut, the grass and sky also copy. How can I eliminate that?
Hello. Welcome to SketchUp! 
Usually, you can disable the background by removing the checkmark beside “Background” in the SketchUp Model > Styles tab in LayOut. But it won’t work in this case because you have a sky and a ground. You want to change your style to something else.
“Shaded with Textures” should do the job. It puts a white background in your model but make sure you uncheck it from the Styles tab to make it transparent.
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You might find it makes the most sense to edit the style to change the background to white.
In the Styles window, click on the Edit tab. Then edit the background color as needed and turn off Sky and Ground.
The thumbnail will show the circular arrows indicating the style has been modified. Click on the thumbnail or the circular arrows on the right side to update it.
I am having trouble with this solution using the 2023 Sketchup version. I have tried changing the background to white, but I still get a light grey background. Whatever color I change it to, there is a slight variation between the foreground and background (for example, white has white foreground, and light grey background; black has a pitch black foreground and a dark grey background). I would like it to the black and white like a line drawing.
To me it looks like you have a Section Plane displayed. Turn off Section Planes in the Modeling properties for the style (blue cube) and update the style by clicking on its thumbnail. Then save and update the model reference in LayOut. Does the gray go away?
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THAT WORKED!!! Thank you.
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