Moving faces from one layer to another

[Mike Backler]

Hi

I need to move faces from one layer to another. How do I do this please.

Thanks

[Gaieus]

You don't.
If you did, you would just select the face, right click > Entity info and change the layer there (and generally speaking, do it there).

But please, for the sake of your own sanity, do not move any other entity than groups/components onto anything else than Layer 0 otherwise you will mess up your model. Layers do not separate geometry (groups/components do) and your face will still interact with geometry on other layers.

[Dave R]

I will second Csaba's plea that you leave all edges and faces on Layer 0 and only make other layer associations for components and groups. It would be wise to heed what Google has to say on the topic of layers.

[pbacot]

@dave r said:

I will second Csaba's plea that you leave all edges and faces on Layer 0 and only make other layer associations for components and groups. It would be wise to heed what Google has to say on the topic of layers.

I like Google's comment from that link:

@unknownuser said:

If you want to experiment with that, you'll need to take along your own search and rescue team!

[Dave R]

I do, too, Peter.

I don't know how many models I've repaired for people over the years because they didn't use layers correctly.

[Anssi]

Sometimes one is forced to use layers for reasons not directly to do with SU. For instance, the only way to separate different materials in a model you want to import into Revit is by using layers

Inside SU I find it often convenient to place all my glass on a separate layer that I can turn off when exporting to a vector-only format like EPS or PDF.

Anssi

[Dave R]

Anssi, that's true but as a general practice in SketchUp, it isn't a good idea to move edges or faces to other layers. Of course you know that and can deal with it for your exports to Revit.