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Getting Started with SketchUp Pro

By : David S. Sellers
Book Image

Getting Started with SketchUp Pro

By: David S. Sellers

Overview of this book

Owing to its ability to create models quickly and with high level of dimensional accuracy, SketchUp Pro has become a popular choice for many industries, including architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and video game design. If you are seeking to adopt Trimble's exceptional design software, Getting Started with SketchUp Pro serves as an ideal primer to prepare and equip you for its use. This book will help you lay the foundation of a project from scratch, set up appropriate units, and follow a guided path to structure your 3D models. You’ll explore the workflows used for creating designs from sketches, making CAD drawings (DWG), and even updating your existing 3D models. Finally, you’ll work with extensions and 3D Warehouse to find new workflows and models to add to your skill set. By the end of this SketchUp book, you’ll be able to confidently create and share models of your design through CAD drawings and 3D views, and even take them online through the 3D Warehouse
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – User Interface and Beginning Modeling!
7
Part 2 – Views, Animations, and Materials
11
Part 3 – Advanced Modeling and Model Organization
12
Chapter 9: Entity Info, Outliner, and Tags Dynamically Organize Your Models
13
Chapter 10: Model Info and Preferences

Tags

The Tags panel (formerly called the Layers panel) organizes Geometry and Objects into sets that control visibility. Tags are used to change visibility settings for multiple Objects at once, including hiding and unhiding, as well as applying edge dashes (similar to linetypes in other software). The Tags panel can be activated in the Window | Default Tray dropdown:

Figure 9.38 – Window | Default Tray Menu Dropdown

The Tags panel contains the following tools:

  1. The Add Tag Button
  2. The Add Tag Folder Button
  3. A Search Box
  4. The Tag Tool Button
  5. The Color by tag Toggle Button
  6. The Details Flyout Button
  7. A Tags List including Visibility, Name, Color, Dashes, and Current Tag Icon

These tools are shown in the following figure:

Figure 9.39 – Tags panel with Add and Delete Tags Buttons, Details, and a Tags List

There is also a Tags Toolbar in SketchUp Pro. The Tags Toolbar is simply a drop-down...