When creating a new component in one layer I placed it in a different layer after making it a component. Now when I turn off the first layer my new component also turns off and I am unable to turn it off in the new layer I placed it in.
This has happened several times.
I am using Sketchup 2015.
Thanks,
First, are you aware that the subject of your post and the post itself seem to be talking about different things?
Here are some rules; deviate from them at your peril:
- Keep Layer0 active at all times
- Create all raw geometry (edges and faces) on Layer0 and keep it there
- Assign a layer other than Layer0 only to groups or components
- Use layers only to control visibility, not to isolate or organize geometry: those are the functions of groups and components.
See the following: Does SketchUp Support Layers?
-Gully
Thanks for the information. It is helpful
A big plus one to Gully’s advice. You’ll find many preach that as best practice - I’d be one of them.
And from me too.
But in order to contradict myself, here are a couple of reasons for assigning raw geometry to layers:
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Layers are about the only possible way to get material information exported from Sketchup to other CAD applications that read the DWG format.
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SketchUp doesn’t render transparency into 2D vector output formats (DWG, PDF or vector format printing), so the only solution I can think of is to put all your transparent faces on a layer and turn it off.
Anssi