Move all items in group and sub groups to new layer

[DanRathbun]

@wcndave

GroupA is attached to LayerA and has lots of sub groups

GroupB is attached to LayerB and has lots of sub groups, including items from layerA

The bold is a no-no. They cannot contain competing visibility layers. They do, and of course you have visibility issues.

@wcndave

That’s why I gave up using hide / unhide, as those states are simply not saved in scenes. However layers get mixed up too.

They are saved if the appropriate property boxes are checked for the scene in the Scene Manager.

@wcndave

each time I add a layer, I have to go back through every one of 20 scenes and turn it off. Not sure why the default is not to have it not in scenes, as it was not there when I saved the scene and now it is.

The Layer Manager needs work. The settings are settable via the Ruby Console:
http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/layer#page_behavior
Unfortunately, it be best to set the layer page behavior before making all the pages.

A page keeps a list of layers that do not have their default behavior. If a layer is not in that list, then it is set to its default visibility determined by one of these values:
LAYER_VISIBLE_BY_DEFAULT: 0x0000
LAYER_HIDDEN_BY_DEFAULT: 0x0001

To set it’s default behavior to hidden:

Sketchup.active_model.active_layer.page_behavior=1

For new pages:
LAYER_USES_DEFAULT_VISIBILITY_ON_NEW_PAGES: 0x0000
LAYER_IS_VISIBLE_ON_NEW_PAGES: 0x0010
LAYER_IS_HIDDEN_ON_NEW_PAGES: 0x0020

The “out of the box” setting for new pages, is to use the default setting. Or you could be double sure:

Sketchup.active_model.active_layer.page_behavior=0x1|0x20 # which is 33 decimal