Peterfanthony perhaps the following notes will help with your thoughts about how to structure models in 2019.
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As mentioned we’re not recommending any changes to how anyone prefers to model (on layer 0 and move groups to layers in your case). If you feel you’re now needing to separate edges from other groups I’d be curious to understand the situations this feels needed and for what purpose.
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You have noticed that the dashes work pretty well for things like property boundaries where visibility lines up well with style. This is exactly how they are optimized, so definitely keep doing that. They also work for some nicely structured components for things like 2D door swing or window opening details etc…
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We still recommend that you will need to stack viewports in LayOut, and to occasionally explode viewports to get some of the drawing control you need. Especially when the visual presentation of what you’re showing is different in each scene such as the case of the roof which is likely to be solid in one scene, and dashed in many others.
Despite reducing some stacking, dashes on layers realistically won’t solve all situations. However, there might be some interesting workarounds to avoid exploding or stacking which I’d be happy to try if you have a specific scenario that feels common across many of your drawings.
- In one of the threads from earlier this week AK_SAM was asking similar workflow or best practice questions. I posted a modified version of his model containing a method of structuring groups in relation to layers that utilizes dash patterns in a relatively clean way. Although it’s a simple example it might help with some ideas to keep layer counts lower by sharing layers across different types of objects.
The purpose of the structure is to make it easy to turn off ‘types’ of details at different levels in your model, with the least clicks.
Dashed Lines feature discussion - #45 by SketchupDoug
Let us know if there are any insights that help you out, it’ll be useful to understand what they are in case it helps others with successful best practices.
Cheers,