Ok first try using the context menu, which is a right click (two finger click if on a trackpad). select and object, right click choose hide. it’s gone!. in the display menu turn on hidden objects, there it is but ghostly because it’s still hidden. Select it and right click, then find unhide. done. you can also use unhide last (last object hidden) or unhide all.
Yeah, that I was doing way up above, But there should be a way to simply unhide without going through all of that, the way that Jon does in the video tutorial. No shortcuts seem to work for me, and I can’t understand why reversing an action is so difficult. I can Cmmd+Z to undo, so I guess that’s my only option for now.
Set up a shortcut for unhide last.
It’s not just this tutorial; it seems like I run into this on so many of these videos…
If thats the sequence your instructor uses then the second shortcut is for “unhide last” to unhide the last hidden object. Simply using the shortcut for unhide with nothing selected has effect, because SketchUp does not know what to unhide.
So, I did that. Shift+Option+H.
And now, for some reason, Option+H doesn’t hide anymore, even though that’s what the shortcut is set for - checked 2 times.
About time to turn the MacBook into a frisbee…
No, he first selected object, hid it, then unhid it.
Yes, but he unhid it by using a shortcut for “unhide last” or just control Z.
His words, and the command shown on the screen, are 'you can easily hide and unhide the (object) by using Cmmd+E and Shift-Cmmd+E.
Fine, good, whatever, and it may be semantics, but why isn’t my shortcut for Hide working anymore? Ugh…
And now, magically, it is. Maybe I’m cursed…
Thanks for your help tonight. Maybe I’ll actually make it through this 30-minute tutorial in under 4 hours…
Make sure you have something selected when you apply the hide command?
It can be frustrating learning a new complex program, many of us have been in your position when starting out. Things don’t make sense and appear to be working in a random fashion, I assure you it is not and will become easier as you progress. It sounds honestly like the instructor may have misspoken. In any case give things a break and come back again later. There are some good courses at the SketchUp Campus as well. There is usually a helpful sympathetic person hanging around here to help. 
I’m selecting an object, hiding it, then trying to unhide right away, no other actions in between. Unhide doesn’t work at all no matter what I do, UnHide last does. So why is Unhide a command in the list as an available shortcut?
What I’m envisioning as a problem down the road is hiding 3 or 4 compinents to show one of my crew the underlying structure, and then not being able to inhide them again. I saw a similar complaint in the forum, someone asking why hidden objects don’t go into a stack or something like that…
I just went to Sketchup Campus, downloaded the first part of the Fundamentals course, and my MacBook says there’s no program to open the download.
Seriously, this just all is starting to seem like a bad joke.
If you want to hide and unhide a series of objects, use tags, that’s what they are for. Take a breath and maybe a break, there are millions of users of this program, have faith that you will be one of them. But if you are convinced that the “program is wrong” before you understand how to use it you are more likely to give up.
Thanks, and I get it. I din’t think the program is ‘wrong,’ I’m just trying to figure out what I am doing wrong and why what others are doing on the screen in front of me isn’t working.
I know I can be a grouchy old man, and I come from the belief that I’m not the only one who’s having thees problems, but most who do think it’s all their fault and so stay quiet. The program works, as the numbers say, and there’s always room for improvement. I’ve spent enough time looking through the forum now to know that most of the questions I have have been asked for years now, so I have that comfort to know that I’m not that obtuse… 
And I really do appreciate your help! Hopefully I’ll get to the stage where I can help others too. I’ve been teaching outdoors stuff for a lot of my life; I like to spread knowledge, and I like to focus on teaching the ‘why’ behind the knowledge and not just the ‘what.’ So I get a little frustrated when things aren’t as clear to me as I wish they were.
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