Hi There,
I’m working on a house framing model that has many duplicate and similar components spread out across the house. I am using outliner to nest the groups and components into a typical tree made up of floors, rooms, walls, parts, joineries.
But now i am pondering an idea that i would like some input on. This idea seems very interesting but i don’t know if its just wishful thinking or right on the money. The idea has to do with creating a filter tree with tags. A filter tree, if that is what its called, is like how websites have a list of options for their products where you can select one or more option from each category to hone in on the final filtered product list. In sketchup with the house framing system it would be like the following.
Note: Upper case is a folder while lower case is a tag. Member would be like a piece of wood while fastener is the screw.
The idea here is that because the scene is already nested into the floor, room, wall, part, and joinery structure in outliner, then i can create this filter tree in tags and be able to easily see the house in different ways than i would with outliner.
For instance, if i wanted to see nothing but the members of the entire house without the fasteners then i can do it in tags with 1 mouse click if all the tags are already checked. Whereas with outliner it would take a long time and would be tedious.
Also, the list of items in tags is very small compared to the list in outliner. This would allow for easy navigation in tags when compared to outliner.
So that is my idea. Before building my entire house framing system on this structure in tags i was wondering if it makes sense or if its marching down the wrong track.
Thank you.