Plant models/symbols

grizzler

Hello.

I've been trying to think of the best way to quickly create and display garden 2D planting schemes. It's not something that has bothered me before as I generally provide rendered 3D visualisations of landscapes rather than anything particularly technical or data driven, but it's now becoming more of an issue.

I want a way to allocate a simplified 2D symbol (just a coloured circle will suffice) to a 3D component so that when I create a scaled plan in Layout I can see the 2D but not the 3D. Layers won't work for me because the 2D and 3D items need to be tied together so that when one moves the other does too - any suggestions?

Dave R

Tags should work fine for that. Create a colored circle component centered on your 3D plan component. Nest the two into a component so you can move them around as one. Give the circle and the 3D plant components different tags. Then for your plan view scene(s) turn off the tag for the 3D plant and turn on the tag for the 2D circle.

grizzler

@dave r said:

Tags should work fine for that. Create a colored circle component centered on your 3D plan component. Nest the two into a component so you can move them around as one. Give the circle and the 3D plant components different tags. Then for your plan view scene(s) turn off the tag for the 3D plant and turn on the tag for the 2D circle.

I can't believe I've never encountered this before in years of using sketchup, but I think I need 3 tags for the two items - one for the 3D file, one for the 2D image and a third for the pair as a component. I was trying to just use the two previously.

Dave R

@grizzler said:

but I think I need 3 tags for the two items - one for the 3D file, one for the 2D image and a third for the pair as a component.

Your profile says you are using SketchUp 2022. If that's correct you could use a tag folder to contain the tag for the 3D trees and the tag for the 2D circle. Then leave the top level component untagged. Turning off the visibility for the tag folder would hide both the 3D and 2D components or you can hide one or the other by controlling the tag visibility.