Why won't my rectangle be part of my model?

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Hexagon B Rectangle only visible.skp (4.0 MB)

Hexagon with Everything hidden
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Hexagon with Everything Unhidden
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I created the model you see in the picture. I have done similar things many times.

When I hide everything, the rectangle will not hide. It is NOT part of the model. Why not?

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Remember what @Box wrote to you about “context.” I frequently find myself making the same mistake. I start working on a component but the component is not opened up for editing. Whatever I draw will not be part of the component, and therefore will not hide when I hide the component. You can select your rectangle, right click, select the scissors and cut it. Then, open you component for editing, right click, and select paste in place. Your rectangle will then be a part of your component. Just make sure it is aligned right after it is pasted in place.

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Stop using ‘hide’ except for brief temporary use.
Use the tags [aka layers] to control visibility.
Your first image shows a rectangle [drawn on the default tag]
The other items are hidden because they are hidden or more-likely their tag is ‘off’ - even if their 'container’s contents are on that default layer.

Your second image shows the items un-hidden.
But their container is in edit-mode.
So that means that the rectangle is ‘greyed’ to show it’s outside of the edit-context.

So you have some possibilities to resolve this…

  1. Inside of the edit-context make a new rectangle inside the edit-context [later on delete the extra rectangle].

  2. Exit the edit-context, then select the rectangle, use Edit > Cut [the rectangle disappears momentarily] and then open the edit-context again, Edit > Paste-in-Place, the clipboard’s rectangle is put back, now it’s relocated inside of the edit-context.

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Hey SketchUp Sage,

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

You have forever changed the way I will do some of my SketchUp. I will always be grateful.

Peter Enns

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TIG’s user name is shorter than most. The ‘SketchUp Sage’ part is to show that he is a Sage. he normally would be referred to as TIG.

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