Hidden geometry is in the way

MARZENNA

Hello. I try very hard to be better on SketchUp. As I learn on my own and previously used AutoCad, my old drawings are drawn using layers rather the Outliner. In various books it is recommended to move everything onto layer0. Unfortunately when I did that, the hidden geometry pops always when I turn that layer even if the group is off in the Outliner. Is that correct? It is obstructing my visibility of object that I want to work on. Is there any way to bound the hidden geometry to a group I turned off?
Thank you for your help.

pbacot

Marzenna,

Welcome to the forums!

I think the term hidden geometry could be confusing this question, so I am not sure what you mean about it popping etc.

[Edit on re-reading your request I am guessing this first item is what you are after]:
The Outliner doesn't control visibility. Perhaps what you mean is that when you are editing a group you can still see the rest of the model...? This is controlled by Menu Item
"View / Component Edit / Hide rest of model". A good item to set to a hot key (to toggle).

In regards to Layers:

You are correct: entities (edges, faces, circles, curves, guidelines etc.) should remain on Layer0, but GROUPS and COMPONENTS can be on any layer. So if you open a group, its edges and faces are on Layer0. Layer0 should be the active layer always (with the radio button on the left in the layer window). Odd but that's how it is in SU. When you turn off visibility of a group's layer, the group will be hidden, regardless of the layer of it's contents.

Use Groups (and components) to keep entities (edges, faces, etc.) from interacting, and put groups on other layers to hide them. So groups and layers work together for controlling visibility of parts of the model.

So, alternately, what may be happening is you do not actually have all entities on Layer0 or you may have begun drawing on another layer. Then strange things seem to happen with visibility. There is a plugin called "default layer geometry" that puts entities on the Layer0 but leaves groups on their own layers. Useful for imported geometry.

Note, you don't have to use the Outliner, if that is confusing things. Many people don't.

MARZENNA

Thank you very much pbacot.
It looks like I was doing half way right. I moved everything on the layer0, created a group but did not moved it to its own layer. You saved me another long day of despair...lol