blam!!! Lot’s of work to do but at least I have the tools now
blam!!! Lot’s of work to do but at least I have the tools now
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the fact that you can nest groups to easily turn off their visibility just feels like tags are redundant to me and if they are just a way to group groups to turn off and on their visibility, it would be much more visually intuitive to have it all in the same box but just in a different row… but that is just my opinion…
In terms of a list, It would still be much better and easier to search and learn if. you are stuck than watching hours of video for one tiny piece, when you are stuck…hopefully I will be able to ask our ai overlords to do it soon… 
I understand the use, I just don’t quite understand the need for separate groupings, other than the ability to color them, which could be added to groups…just the fact that you can have nested groups and components to easily shut off large sections makes it seem redundant to me…
Nesting objects isn’t just for visibility control. It has other uses, too. For example it allows to select and handle a collection of components as if it was a single object. I use that in modeling doors and drawers in furniture. That lets me treat the drawer or door as one object for selecting and moving it while retain the sub-component for exploded and dimensioned views as well as for cutlist generation.
Nesting isn’t quite as neccesary for visibility control since the addition of tag folders but it’s still useful.
What happens if I select the third option by mistake, how can I reset it so I can update new scenes again? Thanks
See my reply to your now deleted post.
Are you still using SketchUp 2019?
ok thanks!
No, I’m using the latest version 2024. I was just trying to get rid of the that pop up every time I updated a scene as it was getting annoying, I didn’t realise it would no longer allow updates to be saved (I didn’t read the pop up properly)
Please correct your forum profile. It’s a long time out of date.
Understood. You can prevent the warning from appearing by handling your styles before you create a scene. If you’ve done something to modify the style and you want to save those changes in the current style, update it by clicking on the style’s thumbnail which will removed the curved arrows. Or choose to create a new style by clicking on the Create New Style button on the right edge of the Styles panel.
When you get that warning consider the implications of the choices. If you choose the first one, a new style is created. If you already have an In Model style that does the same thing, making a new one identical one isn’t good. It just bloats the file and makes management more difficult. Cancel the scene creation and pick the appropriate style instead.
If you choose the second option, that will affect any other scenes already using that style. Maybe that’s a change you want to make but maybe not.
And of course the third option won’t update the style which means any changes you’ve made to it will be lost. I will say that I never use the third option. If the warning pops up it’s always one of the first two or I hit Cancel.