Hopefully something like that is in the works. But it will require some rework of the tag infrastructure to separate the tag from the function(s) performed. Today the tags are tightly wedded to visibility, color, and dash pattern. I’d like to be able to say something like “hide all objects tagged with “first floor” or “second floor”.
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BabylonJS also thought about what tags are and implemented a very powerful tag query system with which you can select objects before applying an operation, e.g.
tag1 && (tag2 || !tag3)
As a user locked in the MakeLand universe, only today I found the answer to the question “What the blazes are Scenes anyway?” 
I know I’m using your micrometer as a G-clamp, but even so …
Sketchup is a wonderful tool, built by amazing people. Well done. 
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Sure it has. Standard Views, under the Camera menu.
Tags is a nice solution, in my opinion, because you’re tagging objects in order to toggle their visibility by tags. I agree with eneroth3 that views is a problematic term. When people say “change the view” they always mean a point of view, not just something’s visibility.
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Great works Sketchup Team. I think the new viewport abilities will be excellent for presentations. I don’t think it will reduce the number of my scenes though as the copy / paste of viewports that have scenes already tagged appropriately is currently faster than editing the view ports in LO - I am playing with creating a template for Layout files that use that feature - basically transferring the scene duties to Layout, but that looks to me to work best with a proxy file embedded in the Layout file.
Always excited with the new versions!
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About 30 yeas ago I learnt Autocad on a green CRT, plot pens and with much anxiety.
Then I learnt Datacad, and it was good.
Then I learnt SKU, and it was half way (at least it was “fun”)
Then LayOut, not really “learnt” (The Time of Gnashing Teeth)
Then the Funeral for Datacad, I became older
Then the 20teens (The Enlightenment) where things mostly worked, with dashed lines.
Then 2020, when the use of SKU was decreed to be more like Autocad
Really? I’ve not heard this? Where was this decree ?
SketchUp was never “more like AutoCAD” and still it not.
AutoCAD was command based. SketchUp has always been tool based.
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Ah - yes, we got some examples from internal testing. Lemme dig them up and get them pushed to GitHub.
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@pixero - simple example can be found here: GitHub - SketchUp/sketchup-draw-mesh: Example Drawing Shaded and Textured Polygons
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Maybe one day it can copy AutoCAD r9 and do a real circle? 
Too soon?
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Doubtful as SketchUp is a surface modeler, not a nurbs modeler.
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Yeah, I know that. I tried to put in enough winkies to show that I was joking.
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Yea, and it’s not like this subject hasn’t be argued ad nauseam.
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I do like the idea of being able to hide objects in certain scenes I do! Like some pesky door that gets in the way in a building section.
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Didn’t make you reply
So PC stability wise everything is ok with 2020?
Safe to spent the sunday afternoon rolling over from 2019?
I can’t respond for everyone, but that’s what I did today. And I’ve had no problems (so far).
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Oh okay, then I’ll reply to …
Reminded me of the “Authur” reboot (I saw recently), when he’d take a bath and his governess would tell him not to forget to wash his “winkie”.
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I’ve found 2020 very stable in the time I have been using it.
As with any new version it’s best to only make the change over when not in the middle of a project.
Don’t uninstall the previous version, just run them side by side. Work in 2020 and back up by ‘saving as’ back to 2019.
No two systems are the same so your mileage may vary, but overall there have been no significant common faults.
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@Box And I’ll bet you’ve been using it for more than a few days. You’d be my “go to guy” if I wanted testing done.
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