This is the idea I’m really coming around to now. I’m starting to think it’s too schizophrenic and time consuming to reveal the tag (layer) of one thing at a time in the outliner, when it could be quick and clear if there were a right hand column in the outliner with the tag of each item. Your eye can quickly scan down the list and easily spot mistakes or see how the model is organized. Especially with nested stuff expanded in the outliner, Brightman’s nested approach to tags would be much easier to grasp mentally, and check and debug as well. The more I think about it, this may be my top wish list feature request.
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You are having doubts, it would totally confuse me.
The object tree isn’t a neatly ordered list. One could spot a different tag easy in a list with all the same, but if each row has a different one.
In a small model, this could work, but in a large one, I am not sure.
We would be far better of with a filter that could filter Tags as well (classification or layer tags)
Or check in the Layer Tag inspector.
This could be set as a option to view or just hide the additional option.
Good question. I wish it was easier to organize elements in the drawing. Just go back to Layers like every other program uses and make it so you can create sub layers. Make sure you can lock them and hide them.
In SketchUp they are called Tags. It’s just a name. They work identically to layers in Autocad.
Yes but unlike layers in every other program on the planet there doesn’t seem to be a way to lock them. Is there a way to do that in Sketchup Pro 2020? I see once you turn it into a component you can lock it. Do I have to group and then make a component out of each piece?
Absolutely. This is SketchUp 101. Every object in your model should be a group OR a component (it cannot be both). Groups and components are the way to isolate and separate geometry, that’s what they do. Tags do not, Tags control visibility only.
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