@dave r said:
@cotty said:
Daves question implies the suggestion to use layers for controlling the visibility of groups and components.
Indeed it does. You should be using Layers for that instead of hide.
I just ran into this in an informal model. I am not new to SketchUp and always use layers to control visibility and thus as a organizational tool for groups and components too. I don't often do animations but today I wanted to simulate showing a couple of related components in intermediate positions (with shadows), after completing much of the model and scene building.
Even though we may have to here, I disagree (semantically ) that we should only be using Layers for hiding. Scene Manager allows us the choice to save "Hidden Geometry" and "Hidden Layers" as separate options. Problem is it works when manually advancing Scenes as in demonstration but in exporting an animation although the box is checked "Hidden Geometry" is not hidden in teh exported file. It should be consistent when exporting for presentation. Today I may have to create several new layers with, reassign these components and then go through each scene and turn the newly added layers off and update the scenes one by one. I don't have the plugins (yet) to manage the default tedium of new layers visible in every scene.
I often selectively unhide some but not all hidden components within a layer for modeling efficiency, like getting. Scene management as is can be useful in model building to hide/unhide geometry temporarily without Unhiding All. Though when not using scenes I often wish I could unhide some rather than all or just easily lock some things hidden for a while while being able to unhide all of the rest.
