New Outliner does not read dimensions as content

SketchUp Feature Requests
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This is something SketchUp Classic could do! And it was useful to turn dimensions off and on at will. When I highlight dimensions in SU Subscription nothing shows in the Outliner window- no shading hints.

Worth fixing, methinks.

Best, as always,
Loren

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Are you sure aren’t mixing this up with Entity Info.
I don’t believe you’ve ever had any ‘hint’ for a dimension in Outliner unless they are contained within a group.

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Hi, Box.

Dimensions were objects like anything else, and clearly supported but this was before Outliner when we worked in the easily understood Layers dialog. I had a Layer dedicated to storing all dimensions and could toggle the group when needed.

Best, as always,
Loren

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Outliner has been around for a very long time.
Layers are now called tags and anything you could do in layers you can do in Tags.
Creating a Tag for Dimensions is the same as Creating a layer for dimensions.
Perhaps if you show an Image of what you were ‘previously able’ to do we could point you in the right direction.

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Hi, Box.

What do you call “a long time?” I’ve been on Sketchup for about 20 years. Never found an Outliner in Pro. (Wasn’t looking for it, either. Because, you know, we had “Layers”. :slight_smile: If so, why didn’t they bring forward more Layers function into Outliner in a consolidation of organization tools?

We just recently got the Eyeballs back. Now we should have little tracer-tree lines similar to SU 2019 to track into deeply nested object layers.

I know Tufte berates this stuff as “chartjunk” and normally he’d be right, but in 2019 it has an easy eye-track. Why dump the tree?

Best, as always,
Loren

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If you aren’t familiar with Outliner, don’t use it.
If you want to work with ‘Layers’ use ‘Tags’ it is just a name change, but they have added Tag folders as well now. So you can ‘Group’ your ‘Layers’(now called Tags)

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I’m confused. Outliner has been there all along Window>Outliner, not hard to find. We still have “Layers”, nothing has changed except the name which is now called Tags, it functions the same. Tags (layers) and Outliner have both been around, are still around, do different things, they are both very useful.

Anything you could do before, you can still do. What’s to fix?

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