Any advice for my design (technical and sections)
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I need draw a small house. I would like allow to hide/show items so it's possible see the interior of the house.
So I have create this:
Any color is a group (the colors are just to make you understand, I have to use materials).
I can hide the roof and see the interior...First question: is this the right way to use SketckUp?
Secondo question: If Yes, is there a way to hide line between 2 colors and use textures like single surface?
Third question: is there a way to have a solid sections? I have try SolidSection plugin but it not work very well.
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Always create/put your 'raw geometry' [lines and faces] on Layer0, which should almost always be your 'current layer', and always 'on'.
Create groups or components of related geometry, assign other layers to those 'containers'.
Turning those layers on/off
Geometry in the same context sticks together - which can be useful or annoying depending on what you are doing...
Using containers separates geometries and their layers control visibility.
Hiding objects is a recipe for confusion.Use Scene tabs to control various sets of on/off layers.
Groups are unique and when erased they are gone.
Components can have multiple instances and appear in the Component Browser > Model tab.
If you edit one instance all other siblings change to match - a time-saving feature.
You can always make a selected component unique so changing it is not seen in its cousins.
You can 'nest' containers inside other containers...If you want to hide an edge between two faces you can select it and use Hide in the context-menu or Entity-Info check-box.
You can also use Erase+Shift to hide edges.
To see hidden lines toggle the View > Hidden Geometry setting.Apply textures to faces rather than containers - that way you can adjust them using the context-menu Texture tool.
The top-range section-filler extension is Skalp, but it is quite a few $.
My own SectionCutFace will add a faces to a selected section-plane.Adding section-planes within a group only cuts the contents of that group.
Adding a section-plane into the model cuts all objects in the model including any nested objects. -
Sorry to jump on the back of this but what are you defining as a "container". Followed everything else just that but confused me
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A 'container' is a group or a component-definition [it's also an image BUT that is not relevant here].
The 'container' contains a separate entities 'context', compared to the model's entities context.
So putting geometry into a 'container' separates it from its original context's geometry.
A 'container' can also include other 'containers - aka 'nested' groups or components.Note that groups, component-definitions and even images are all 'definitions' as far as SketchUp is concerned.
All such 'containers' can be assigned to layers to control their visibility...Images are a special case - a single face with a 'hidden' textured-material.
Don't fret about those at the moment.A group is a unique collection of objects, copy it and edit the copy and it's not linked to the original at all.
If you delete a group then it's gone.
However, it's a useful way of separating/collecting objects.A component-definition is displayed in the model as component-instances - it is a collection of objects - copy it or place another instance and they are all related.
Edit one instance and all other instances change to match.
This is a powerful tool.
However, if you want to split-off an instance the make_unique tool does that...
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