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I recommend keeping the Entity Info window open at all times!īUT when you get to the presentation phase of your project you will likely want to create scenes to show different views of your model, and in those scenes you will want to have certain entities hidden so they don't obstruct the view. The outliner is tremendously useful during the modelling phase and helps to enforce the essential discipline of grouping everything, and naming your groups. There is a MAJOR GOTCHA with this approach that users need to be aware of before relegating their use of layers to just homogeneous groups like furniture. Not using Outliner cause your too busy to learn it or stuck on the treadmill is in my view “wrong” because it keeps you working slow and inefficient. I no longer have the confused, bogged down models I hear about from other SKP users. I learned this and my efficiency sped way up, not to mention how much better SKP performs. I work on very complex models and the Outliner is a godsend. This is about “efficiency” and not getting caught up in the mundane. Why? Cause they are stuck on a learning plateau and stay where they are. I see many people with advanced versions of AutoCAD who still draft like they learned back in R-14. Not using Outliner in a complex model cause you dont know how is kind of like digging a long ditch with a shovel cause you dont want to learn to use a backhoe. Which system you choose is entirely up to you - there's no right or wrong way to do things. One of your closing comments was: Plenty of modelers use Layers and almost never use the Outliner. Outliner is a GODSEND! If you dont use it, you have no idea what your missing. I think this material should be written into the Sketchup documentation, because I have struggled with when to use layers and the documentation was not helpful. With careful design, this might even be a killer feature for Sketchup 8. It may also be possible to do away completely with the distinction between layers and the outliner if it were possible for an entity to have more than one tag. Hierarchical layers/tags, and a column of checkboxes for toggling visibility would be a great start. I agree with the comments above that the UI could be improved. AutoCAD layers don't work that well anyway everybody uses byzantine naming conventions to simulate hierarchy, and these conventions have even been officially standardised for some domains. It might help people shake off their AutoCAD baggage if the layers concept was named differently. It strikes me that this usage of layers is very like the use of tags in or labels in Gmail. I set these two function commands to keyboard shortcuts.Īfter getting used, you are not going to use the generic HIDE too often neither Outliner.ġ-Don't be “Layercentric”! this is not AutoCAD.Ģ-Use layer to organize grouped objects only (Components,Groups, Images,Dimensions and Texts).ģ-Normally Layers becomes really usefull in advanced fases of large models and before LayOut presentations.Ĥ-Layers can be very powerfull when combined with Scenes. SketchUp Essential Two Training Course No:3HIM04.īut to make it really work you MUST set shortcuts. This enables you to quickly examine a certain aspect of a complicated design easily without disrupting the rest of the model.”
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It gives you “the ability to turn off the rest of the model while editing. Organize your model using Groups and Components, as Aidan said, then use “Hide rest of model” and “Hide Similar Components” instead of HIDE/UNHIDE. Here some tips to avoid the 3D Administrative Nightmare.