No. No proxies. It depends on the viewports and what I need out of them. I might choose to copy a viewport that hasn’t had any tags altered. There’s usually one of those available.
I ask because if your tag setup is consistent between models you could create LO templates with tag selection pre-selected. I haven’t tried it, so maybe the new reference would wipe out the tag selection for that particular viewport. In which case, it would be better to setup through SU.
That’s a good idea. I do have templates for certain projects that have a proxy SketchUp file and a few scenes set up. For most of my projects the tags aren’t the same between them so that wouldn’t come into play but I can see how it could be useful if it works.
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We are working on a solution that will split out the tag visibility overrides and the tag line style overrides. This means that you would be able to change line styles of tags without then automatically overriding the visibility. This should address the issue you and many others are having with tag overrides.
One difficulty in this is how to inform the user what exactly has been overridden in this section of the SketchUp viewport inspector dialog. We currently modify the background of the entire tags section and show the Reset button when EITHER the visibility or the line styles have been modified.
Adam
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I love the idea of a Color font or something for a tag to show that it’s been overridden in LO and then a “reset” button for that tag.
I badly need that as Im always changing stuff in LO becuase it’s quick, then regretting it (should have used SKP to change a property)
Moving forward is there any potential for scenes to be managed in LO?
Oh and you could probably make the font size smaller for the tags menu.
People are making more and more tags these days, it seems, and we can never fit them all in a reasonably sized menu tray.
here’s how it looks for me- Tag menu text items in LO are much larger font size than most other LO menu items
and larger than SKP menus.
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I have the same issue. Too many tags to manage in Layout, so I keep doing as before as tags are much snappier and easier to handle in SketchUp.
The problem is the huge number of scenes that pile up in SketchUp.
What we need to solve most of our tag issues is better scene management in SketchUp:
- folders for scene manager
- a way to choose which scenes are shown in the scenes tab (we can exclude scenes from animation, we should be able to exclude them from scenes tab too)
- keyboard shortcuts to access a number of favorite scenes.
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Hi @RyanE : Sorry for this late answer. I figured out a workflow close to it, but it’s base on the 2019 features. I didn’t find the time to implement the newer features of Sketchup 2020+ to my templates. So elevations are possible:
I think whith the now available features and style override it should be pretty easy.
It get’s complicated with section cuts… The best I could get without any add-ons is something like this:
- new stuff with red lines
- existing in black
- removed in yellow
I also tried Skalp, but I couldn’t find a fast workflow and it’s too bugy…
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