As I have grown to use SketchUp for all of my architectural production needs, my models have grown to be complex. Hundreds of components, dozens of layers, materials and scenes. SketchUp’s interface that dealt with these, while simple and effective for, say furniture, doesn’t scale very well for b…

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Hey Tom… long time… The scene tabs thing is a great idea! Though they might implement something in the scenes pallet instead. I’m glad you also have an issue with materials. I always deride myself for being unorganized in this department, but when you’re trying to get a job out fast it’s hard to k…

Hi Jason! Has been a while indeed! [image] jasonwd: The scene tabs thing is a great idea! Though they might implement something in the scenes pallet instead. Yes, I agree that the scenes palette needs similar attention. You can’t beat the scene tabs system for really quick switching of vie…

Indeed! The problem I have is, for example, if I have a grey material, I don’t know if it is lead, or flat roof, drain pipe etc. With increased use of Skalp too, it’s important to get the materials organised. I think SketchUp/LayOut workflow maniacs like us need more organisation. With Skalp and …

Hi, We are just getting around to launching Layers Organizer, which you can find now on lasuapps.com It allows you to group, expand, collapse, sort and a bunch of other stuff. Give it a try, it may be what you need until SU do something similar natively.

Scene tabs is something I’d like not to see since it would just have one level of grouping. However grouping in the Scene inspector would be very useful. Otherwise I agree!

[image] eneroth3: Scene tabs is something I’d like not to see since it would just have one level of grouping. I’d have to disagree. It is possible. In the OP’s proposed implementation the “grouped” scenes are appearing on a menu when a drop arrow button is clicked. At least on Windows, a me…

As Dan says, I think any level of nesting will be possible with this system - just as a context menu can have nested items. Like: [image]

I’m still a bit skeptical about the scene tab menus. It can’t look and feel too much like the programs own menu or new users will look for scenes in the top menu or top menu entries among scenes. I don’t even know if its technically possible to use the system menu system on like this or if it would…

[image] eneroth3: More importantly, the scene tabs serves the important role to show what scene is currently selected. If that scene is hidden within a dropdown users can’t see it right away without looking for it. This is true,… however you may not realize that the (Windows edition’s) dropdo…

Make SU 2018 the "organised" update

SketchUp Feature Requests

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Make SU 2018 the "organised" update

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