After several requests I’ve now finally made a plugin that can export and import scenes. The plugin handles camera position, hidden layers, section cuts, style, fog, shadow settings, geo location and axes location (did I miss anything?).
In addition to exporting the data to an external file it can also memorize and later recall any of this information, somewhat similarly to the how memory of a pocket calculator is used.
The use cases varies from re-using a style and fog you really like in new models to compare different design options and create consistent views among numerous models as shown in the video.
There’s a 14 day trial so you can test it out without having to buy it first.
I just realized I forgot to mention one of the key use cases. When copying your work into a blank file as a work around to some strange SketchUp behavior this plugin can be used to also get the scenes into that file so you don’t have to manually re-create them.
Another very handy use case I realized today: after accidentally updating an existing scene, rather than creating a new, a new instance of the same model can be opened (as read only), the scene can be exported and imported back into the working model.
