Show Hide Geometry in Scenes for Animation

[Runninghead]

1. Make a scene with 2 boxes.
2. Hide one of the boxes and create a new scene.
3. Flip between the two scenes and one of the boxes disappears and reappears, as you would expect.

No need for layers and so far all very intuitive.

Try it with a more complex model and the behaviour breaks.

Layers are not ideal for this Show/Hide function in Animations as any complex model relies on them for other types of organisation.

Recording “Hidden Geometry” in the Scenes dialogue is clearly the most intuitive and simple method for this and work fine with a new simple model.
The recording of Hidden Geometry state checkbox in teh Scenes dialogue is misleading and frustrating.

Does anyone have a fix/technique/workaround for this that does not require wholesale reorganisation of the model in to a complex and inconvenient Layer stack?

I know of two relevant old threads here

Scene dialog/ fix Hidden Geometry to SAVE display of Hidden Groups/Entities

According to SketchUP User’s Guide (2006), the Properties to save/Hidden Geometry checkbox ON in the Scene dialog box is supposed to “Display HIDDEN GEOMETRY or ENTITIES that have been hidden using the Hide menu item or context command…” Unless I’m missing something….this feature is broke !! Simple experiment: First: Create a CYLINDER AND BOX group. Within this group create two sub-groups named BOX and CYLINDER. In the Scenes dialog box turn ON all Properties to save and save the scene …

and here

Hiding geometry within a component from scene to scene without using layers?

I have a similar problem. I’m working with a complicated model, and I need to show multiple views (scenes) with a different set of details (items) in each scene. I create an item in one scene, then I have to go to every other scene, hide that item, and re-save the scene. With N scenes and M items, that could be as many as M x N hides and re-saves. Luckily many of the items don’t appear in all the scenes, due to the camera position. Creating a layer for the items specific to each scene seems…

but still no solution.