How to hide some elements ?

[erzane]

if I select an element (buidling) and I would like to work on it only
I will need to hide the others buidlings around
so, my question is
how to hide any no selected elements please ?

pls see this capture for better understanding

[mitcorb]

Make your selection that you wish to hide. Edit> Hide. Or start working with layers. Place elements on various layers, eg Layer 1- Bldg 1, Layer 2...
In your example, make each building a named component and proceed.

[pilou]

There is existing a plug "Invert selection"
In this crazzy plug Selection Toys by Thomthom
A must to have!

• Select your Building
• Inverse selection
• Hide
  so you will have only your building!

[ledisnomad]

If you make that element a group or component, when you go in to edit it, you can choose to fade or hide everything else (Window > Model Info > Components > Fade Rest of Model slider and check box). I have a shortcut key assigned to toggle this setting so I can hide everything else on the fly.

[erzane]

thanks a lot for your quick replies !
ok I will check all that

[erzane]

so, I checked this hiding
it's easy to hide as you say
I did

selection>right click>hide

but now my question is :
if I continue to work on buidlings I need (not hided ones)
-how can I reput in apparence the buidlings I hided before ?
in everytime

thanks

p.s. about layers
it looks like the layers option seems to be a little bit to complicate
I prefere photoshop layer system
so, I hope I will no need to use it on sketchup
because all buldings I made I will transfer it to PS for colour and overthere I can put each ones on layers

[pilou]

You can also use the Ouliner for select anything you want

[Jim]

Hidden geometry is maintained (by default) per Scene, so you could create a Scene with everything visible, hide some items and then add another Scene. (Window menu > Scenes dialog.)

Scenes are not only for creating Camera views - in fact you can opt for a Scene not to update the Camera, and only update hidden geometry by selecting only the Hidden Geomtry property on the Scenes Dialog.

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[erzane]

pilou :
-what is ouliner ? do you wanna mean 'outliner' ?

jim :
-layer technique is not so difficult as I see
thanks for the tip
it looks good, I think I will use it

[Rich O Brien]

Windows > Outliner

Now you'll see a dialogue box that lists groups/components

[Gaieus]

One important thing no matter you hide things or put them on (hidden) layers; NEVER EVER hide or put geometry that is not grouped (or in a component) on to other than Layer 0. If ou want to hide something (or put onto another layer), simply select it > right click and make group. Then hide the group or put it onto any layer you wish.

You can always unhide your things from under the Edit menu > Unhide command or even view hidden geometry from the View menu.