6. And There's Outliner

Outliner

It necessitates dutifully naming groups and components to be really useful, but some people use Outliner more than Layers to control model visibility.

    • Many context menu tools are available for each item - like Hide

    • You can rearrange group/component nesting

    • You can find any named component/group by typing in the first few letters of the name in the little browser window - if you remember the name. So think about creating a naming system.

Some Outliner Educational Resources

    • How a House is Built A building construction document book with SU models which features the use of Outliner by Dennis Fukai. Reportedly, Dennis is an Outliner guru.

    • Modeling Smart Adian's Chopra's 3D Basecamp 2008 session, beginning around 17 minutes.

    • Layers vs. the Outliner SketchUp Blog article by Aidan Chopra, then SketchUp Evangelist.

MasterSketchUp, Matt Donley, goes over using groups and components with the Outliner tool.

Working with Large Models Mitchel Stangl's 3D Basecamp 2008 session begins to show Outliner use around 0:34:00 minutes into the presentation.