I have an existing scene that has section planes and a layer that I want invisible. I have unchecked section planes in View menu and turned off the tab the the layer is on then saved the model but if I switch to another scene and back the section planes and layer are back.
What do I have to do to edit this scene?
Thanks
You have to update the scene after making the changes. Right click on the Scene tab and choose Update or select the scene in the Scenes panel and click on the Update button (curved arrows button). Note that changing the visibility of sections or the display of section planes or fill is a style change so you will either need to update the style or create a new style when updating the scene. You should get a warning when updating the scene that the style has been changed. Choose the right one of the first two options.
Along the lines of what DaveR is saying, when you toggle the Display Section Planes button, the style goes from something like this
to this
I usually then click the circular double arrow “Update styles with changes” to the right.
Yes. Updating the style (or creating a new style if appropriate) after editing it is a good idea. If that is done before updating the scene, the warning won’t be displayed.
Amazing response time - just 5 minutes! Thank you so much. I thought I had tried hitting the update button in the Scenes dropdown - apparently not.
So I got the Warning but I don’t understand which I should choose.
You’re welcome.
If the existing version of the style is used by other scenes and you don’t want your style changes to apply to those other scenes, choose Save as a new style. If the style changes need to be applied to the other scenes using that style, choose Update …
Don’t choose Do nothing because then the style won’t be corrected for the changes you make to section display. Also I would suggest not ticking the box to prevent this warning from showing.
BTW, I would also suggest that you keep track of the styles you’re using in your models. You want to avoid creating a bunch of identical styles as that just bloats your file and makes it more work to manage. It wouldn’t hurt to edit the name and description of the style before you update it or create a new one so that you can identify it.
Gotcha - so if I understand you correctly, if I save those changes to the existing style then those changes will be saved in all other scenes?
The style changes will appear in any other scene that uses the same style. That may or may not be all scenes.
“BTW, I would also suggest that you keep track of the styles you’re using in your models”
OK, I’m confused again - I understood that Style was just the appearance of the model. You select whichever you want and that’s it. And I understood that a Scene was a fixed saved viewpoint, the contents of which could be saved. I guess that’s incorrect.
Regardless, I saved as a new style and it’s displaying as required now so that’s solved. Thank you.
Keeping track of the styles - when I saved as a new style nothing opened to rename it or something. I checked the Styles window and see that that Scene is ConstructionDocumentation Style3 while all the others (1-11) are either CD1 or CD2 so I assume that that is the new style saved. How many scenes sharing the same style is bad?
Well, mostly. But if you create a new style due to your section display status and then go to another scene that needs the same change, don’t just create another new style for that scene. Since you already have an appropriate style select it instead of creating a new one.
You would have to edit that in the Styles panel.
If you don’t edit the style name SketchUp uses the old style name and appends the number to it. If you can keep track of the styles simply by the appended number, great. It generally makes things easier if you give the style a more descriptive name, though.
There isn’t a limit to the number of scenes that can share the same style. My point is it makes your model management more difficult if each scene has a different style assigned to it and most of the styles are identical.
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