Hello! I’m very new to sketchup, and I’m doing an assignment for school. I’m also doing this on a MacBook Air. I have a CAD floor plan imported, and am making the walls for it. My instructor uses windows and he has that default tray and can just click the eye to hide the plan to just the lines for the walls. How do I do that on Mac? He also has the floor plan tagged and had it like that to start without explanation, Is that important? If so how do I do this too.
Your forum profile says you are using SketchUp for Schools. That is a web based version for young school children. If that’s what you are using, look on the left side of the model window and find the icon that looks like a tag. Open that and you can adjust the visibility of the tags.
If, on the other hand you are not a school child and are actually using a desktop version of SketchUp, look in the Window menu for Tags. select it to open the Tags panel. Also, if you are really using a desktop version, please correct your forum profile with the right information. That helps us help you more easily if it’s correct.
Sorry, since I got SketchUp through school I assumed that’s what it meant. But I’m not exactly sure which one I do have. But I do have the tags panel opened, the floor plan is just not on there
look for the outliner panel.
it contains all the groups and components in your model. when you import a DWG file it appears as a component.
that’s also why you can find it in the component panel (might have to click on the small black house there to see it)
the tag panel contains the 3d equivalent of layers. when you import a dwg, its 2d layers become 3d tags.
I think I got it now, I had to also go to the Entity Info, but something I did worked so that I can now hide the floor plan. Thanks for your reply!
FYI the panels your instructor has all exist on the mac version as well. They’re all in the “windows” menu. same name and all.
the main big difference between PC and mac will be in the interface (toolbars / tray and a fully customizable topbar on a mac) and the material panel.