How to delete Scenes without the deletion altering my model?
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Hello,
I've been continually saving a model of a city block to the same file. A few times I've made a video of the model and all the times the videos turned out correct. All I had to do was delete all the scenes and start adding new scenes where I wanted. The model remained the same and videos came out correctly.
For some reason today the model looks exactly as designed on Scene #20, but when I go back and delete other scenes my city block reverts to some other forms of completion -- some buildings and street elements that were deleted remain; the style changes, etc. If I delete any and all scenes except my Scene #20, the Scene 20 also changes to some earlier iteration.
Please advise on how to get rid of the extra scenes without altering my model and allowing me the capability to make a new video. Thank you!
SketchUp version: 7.1 pro
Operating system: Vista -
Hi Orion, deleteing Scenes will not delete your geometry. What is probably happening is that you mgiht have hidden things and saved scenes with various items hidden. Then as you delete scenes or change to different scenes, each scene can re,e,eber the hidden state of objects. So old scenes might be rememebering hidden states differently than you are currently working at.
A way to fix it is to go to a scene where things are missing. Open the layers panel and unhide all layers. Then also go to the outline and make sure there are no hidden groups or compeonts. Turn on hidden geometry in the View menu also.
By unhiding everything, you should be able to figure out what is your "base model". Then from there, you will want to update your scenes so that are only hiding what you want.
BTW, are you trying to hide things on purpose? If not, on each scene in the scene window, you can uncheck "Hidden Geometry" and "Layers". Then your scenes will not try to keep track of what is hidden.
Let me know how it goes,
Chris
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Chris,
Thank you for a detailed solution and explanation of the way Sketchup perceives scenes. I tried toggling the hidden attributes but the model would keep on reverting to earlier versions.
I was able to solve the problem by Select All > Make Component > Copy of my 'healthy' frame and opening a new file and pasting there. The scenes did not copy into the new file, and starting with a blank Scene list I was able to make the animation.
Thank you for your help, it led me to some realizations about Sketchup!
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