Good stuff. Use "H" and "U" keyboard shortcuts for quickie hides. Most of the time it is better to turn off layers. And use a lot of layers very rigorously. Works well for me anyway.
I've been using sketcup for years and hiding loose geometry is one of my BAD habits and this video has reminded me of the better was of managing models.
Thanks Aaron, I don't use hide as often as I should and suffer the consequences when modelling things. I like your explanation on how to use it more productively and will try to do better.
I really like the channel, the livestream team, and the content. That's why I find it difficult to write anything negative. In version 2019, the content of a layer in the outliner was hidden when I hidden the layer. From 2020 the tag content will only be grayed out and the list in the outliner will remain long. That's the biggest problem I have with Sketchup. But after I have already addressed this in the forum and written directly to Sketchup (with an example screenshot) and they do not answer, I assume that I am the only one in the world who is annoyed about it. I could cry. Sketchup should bring back that type of filter. In the case of finding hidden geometry like you mentioned in the video, it was easier to find using this method.
This was great thanks team. We should also make a poll to see if we can get unhide all to unhide everything known to man in the model. I to have lost geometry that is nested and its confusing AF.
I've begun using hide only when something is in the way of what I'm trying to draw. Then I unhide it again once I'm done drawing the new object. More interesting is the x-ray tool. This let's me see inside the object when I draw a woodworking project so I can verify how the joinery connects. I set up the short-cut key x for x-ray.
After all these years I will always think that the "unhide all but not really all...just almost all" command in sketchup is one of the worst thing ever. I used sketchup at university and I saw everyone going mad for it! In my opinion...it's wrong! It's a mistake! And should be fixed like a bug.
Thanks Aaron, that was very helpful, I’ve lost things I couldn’t find and then when I did find them didn’t know how to bring them back. Speaking of the Outliner, would love to see a video on that. You can just focus on MAC, nobody cares about Windows :)
SketchUp needs a temporary hide feature like Revit. Hiding something in SketchUp is not temporary, it's a command which needs to be undone/overwritten. It's very easy to forget something is hidden when modelling, then you remember and have to go back and find/unhide. A visual (obvious) temporary hide function would remove this headache. But then this would require Trimble to focus on making the software better by thinking about what users would actually need instead of spending their very limited resources focusing on trinkets and nick knacks of very limited value. SketchUp has, in effect, remained the same for the last 10 years or more, save for the odd addition. Don't believe me, just look at the interface as an examples, it's from the grim old 2000's! Then look at the way to adjust preferences' (sorry, huge lack of 'adjustable preferences' I should have said) and where they're located (read scattered) around the interface. When a company markets a software product as fit for industry (i.e. Architecture) then wholly and completely relies on other independent developers to give their hard earned time and skill for free to create essential plug-ins to ensure that software operate as it actually should out of the box, in vanilla form, you know they're only doing 'just' enough to ensure the software hangs around (cash drip feed) and really don't care about the users at all......thumbnails not showing anyone? 9 month old issue with no bug fix..........wake up Triumble...... My advice, go and learn Rhino. Most practices have given up on SketchUp and see it a toy, or hobby tool, because Rhino can do the lot, without crashing on a high spec machine (i9, RTX 2080, 32GB RAM) and you don't have to endure (not a strong enough word) the living hell that is LayOut. Yee gods, THE worst paperspace software in Architecture.
