Where I am currently at,
.... Okay, I did a small model house with working drawings as my first actual "building permit" set.
I jumped into a larger two story house and got to making groups, layers, and the model...
it got big fast and out of control...the outliner list was nearly a full page high, groups groping groups...and things getting buried in one layer that were nested inside another group...
it got CRAZY... so what I did was create a MASTER file, that I only drop in completed, organized, properly understood layering, files... paste in place works great.
I took the crazy file, made individual models for: foundation, walls, roofs etc. got them organized, then "paste in place" them into the MASTER file... a lotta work but so much easier than trying to figure out where things got buried.
If this seems too crazy... it is the only sane work around I could come up with given my understandings to date..
if there are any other suggestions, I am open to ideas.
Oh, I find the command E or hide function in Outliner REALLY dangerous, things can get hidden never to be found again,
and when the outliner gets big, it gets really hard to control, groups, when clicked, go off into wild fits of expansion, seems like there could be a "find the group you just clicked" game that should be looked into for potential "things to do when you have lots of time on your hands"
thanks,
aloha
red