You certainly could give them tags although the visibility control only affects the section plane. If you have a lot of them and want to be able to reduce the number of section planes you are seeing, tagging them could be useful. Maybe you have a tag for section planes for the plan view and another set for front to back elevations, and a third set for side to side sections. You could have a perspective view of the model and choose which of those section planes to show in your LO document. That is, if you need to show those section planes.
Thanks, that makes sense. I am creating tag folders for major areas of construction like “Concrete”. Under those I am creating tag folders for “Concrete Existing”, one for “Concrete Proposed” and one for “Concrete Modified”. I am thinking of making a tag in the Concrete folder for “Concrete Section Planes”. Then do the same for Framing, etc. I have already located these tags in similar groups in outliner.
I am basically duplicating existing outliner groups in tag folders so everything matches.
A quickie example. Of course you might have each of the three viewports on separate pages that go with the section views you would be showing on the subsequent sheets. Might be more clear than the one at the bottom showing all of the section planes.
That could also work. The tags won’t help choose between active sections so you still need scenes for each section.
Those look good. I like the separation. I nested section planes in outliner so I could make section cuts in two directions for one scene. It is a tri-level house (two stories with one halfway between sitting next to it) so it doesn’t divide well between upper floor and lower floor. There is an intermediate floor between them off to the side which I need cut out to view the upper or lower floor. Nesting section planes made it possible to do this. Ill have to figure out where to tag those.
Just to clarify, that’s not specifically done in Outliner. You can do the same thing without opening Outliner at all. The two active cuts are created by putting one inside a group or component and the other outside.
It’s not the sections that are getting nested. It’s the groups/components.
Yes, that’s what I mean. One section cut inside a group and the other outside of the group. I did all that in outliner. I thought the only place you can create groups is in outliner.
No. You can do that in the model space, too. In fact you would have to make initial groups in the model space anyway since raw geometry isn’t shown in Outliner.
What do you mean by model space? You have used that term before but when I google it I don’t come up with anything.
Do you mean the model before you create any scenes at all?
It’s the area where your 3D model sits. It’s what you see in the main window.
Outliner is very powerful but you can do all of your modeling without it. As I wrote before, it’s a good textual representation of the 3D model and helps you see the nesting structure but you still have to work in the model space to create your model. You can’t draw shapes or extrude them to 3D strictly with Outliner.
Okay, makes sense. I initially mentally connected outliner with scenes. Yes, outliner just textually represents what’s in the model. First time creating house remodel plans from Sketchup all the way through to layout. My mind has been a bit jumbled. I have also been confusing terms with Chief Architect which I used for 8 years prior to this switch to Sketchup. Chief has much of the same structure as Sketchup but it is more automated. Automated = you can’t control it. It’s like using Sketchup but only with extensions. I was told by the CA applications people that components were best drawn in Sketchup and imported into CA. Not to mention that it is $650/year for the license.
Understood.
If you haven’t done so already you might find it worth going through the tutorials at learn.sketchup.com
Great referral. I will check that out. I didn’t know it existed.
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By the way, thanks for all your help and time. It has helped me readjust my thinking and navigate this transition.
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