Sketching house, should i use grouping for floors and roof?
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Hi,
im a sketchup beginner and i started my journey with house modeling. For now its all nice and simple, but i dont know if i should use grouping for all separate floors and roof for future presentation or should i do all as one unit and use sections for it. Till now i dont like how sections cut my walls, and all inner wall empty spaces is shown.I dont mind to use grouping
but it doubles some edges on my model and dont know if it can mess with texturing and rendering.All suggestions are welcome!
Roger
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I'm a fan of using components for this. When the model gets complicated you can copy a component off to the side for a clear view of it - and any changes you make telegraph through to the original, still neatly in place in your 'house'.
Groups are slightly different - as they are not clones of each other - any changes you make to a group will not affect other copies of that group.
Don't try to model the whole house without groups or components... until you isolate geometry with some form of container (group or component) - it will touch and be 'sticky' to all other geometry it touches.
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Definitely go along grouping every individual part that you can just think of (or even better, as Mike says, you can use components, too).
With just a moderately complex model you will be soon lost without grouping - not to speak about the complete inability to use layers (and scenes with them) to easily manage visibility either for presentational or even just modelling reasons.
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