Hey guys, I'm Aaron and this is SketchUp Square One where we take
a look at the basics of SketchUp. Today we're going to talk about hiding things.
So, SketchUp actually has a handful of commands that allow you to hide things from view,
you've probably come across the hide command, you may even have seen how to hide things
through entity info, or the outliner. We're going to take a look at all of those today,
so let's go ahead and hop in. Okay, so one of the things that people come across
first is, is the ability to hide things through right-click, if I right-click on any selected item
I do get this hide option, here it's also up here under edit, I have this command to hide. This is
not a bad command, but it's probably the least ideal way to hide something I recommend to people,
if they want to use hide, it's a temporary thing so it's like for a step or two. Like I want to
take a look at what's in this box real quick I'll go ahead hit hide I can now see inside the box
and then I'm going to go up to edit and say unhide the last thing I hid and it will come back.
That's about the only time I think you really want to use hide, generally speaking,
the way to go about hiding things is going to be to either use tags
or use the outliner over here on the right. So, I have them floating. I'm on a mac so I have my
floating windows up, if you're using windows this will be part of the default tab bar,
you can expand both tags and outliner. So, what this is going to do is, it is going to allow you
to take items and toggle them on and off. So, if I look at outliner, let's look at outliner first,
so in here now outliner I have Sumele listed and I have this group listed, there's a little eyeball
next to the group, that lets me turn it on and off like that see how easy that is? This is preferred.
Now what you're not seeing here you'll notice I don't have loose geometry here there's two reasons
behind that one the biggest one is probably that I shouldn't have loose geometry in my model. So,
loose geometry should only exist as. “I maybe start drawing things” but things like this cube
should sooner rather than later end up in a group or component, at that point if I make that a group
it's going to show up in the in the outliner and I can toggle that on and off. I'm going to go ahead
and explode that just for the example that we're working through right here the other thing of
course like I said is tagging so again once your geometry ends up in a group like somali or this
this cylinder I have here I can come in and I can create a tag and we'll call this hide me
and what I can do is I can take the selected geometry and I can assign it to that tag which I
can turn on and off so this is nice because it's a sweeping change I can have a whole bunch of items
applied to this tag and turn it on and off as I go the biggest problem with people especially when
they're just starting to use sketchup run into is they hide stuff and then they can't get it back
so I grab some stuff like this I say okay hide that and then I keep going through working here
and then I start drawing something that intersects with hidden geometry or I can't find myself
to bring it back or I hit unhide last and it doesn't come back because i've hid something else
oh it happens so the best way to find things that are hidden is to come up here under view
and you have the option of turning on hidden geometry and hidden objects hidden geometry is
going to show me two things one is it is geometry that's hidden so remember I grabbed all this stuff
and hit it it's also going to show like soften and smooth lines like I have here on the cylinder
hidden geometry is nice because once I turn that on I can do things like oh select this face and
unhide it so I can individually unhide pieces you will notice that sumela didn't come back when I
hit show hidden geometry if I go back up to view I also have an option called hidden objects hidden
objects is going to show groups or components that are hidden they look very similar but because it's
not just loose geometry it has its own visibility so again I could right click and say unhide or I
could come over here under entity into info while it's highlighted and just click the little eyeball
icon to make it visible again something else to note I'm going to go ahead and grab all of this
and I'm going to say unhide to bring it all back go back up to view I'm going to
turn hidden geometry hidden objects off and I'm going to select so this and all of this geometry
let's here let's do this let's let's do this right I'm going to grab this cube and make it a
separate group so I have two groups now here's my cube group and here's my cylinder group I'm going
to grab both of these items and I'm going to make them into a third group so I got nesting going on
now now one of the things you can do with nesting is items inside of larger groups can be hidden
the way to do this again is probably to use outliner to do it I know sometimes
people go well I have so many things in my outliner that it's easier for me to come in
here and just select this and say okay hide this temporarily all right now come back now the issue
with hiding nested geometry just just throwing this out there is that if you do come in here
to edit say unhide and just say unhide all unhide everything that I have hidden right now
well my cube didn't come back this is one of the things that people run
into and they get panicky and they think they've lost things is hitting unhide all
is actually saying what it should say here is unhide all things in current context it's too much
to put on here it'll be a lot of words so all is what they got there that's saying anything that's
on the current level level being like so if I look here on outliner it's this top layer unhide it
in this case what we have so if I go to view and I show my hidden objects again
there's this cube unhide all is not going to make it show up unless I go into context so now I'm
inside of here now if I say edit unhide all it'll bring it all back so just something to note is as
you start using groups and components which you should if you start hiding stuff inside there
that unhide is not the most dependable way to bring things back so really in summary is you
want to hide things once they are created as groups or components hiding raw geometry is
something you do just temporarily like one click and then come back to it otherwise you want to get
things into groups either assign them to tags or toggle their visibility through outliner
so I know there are probably some people out there who have been using SketchUp for a while who have
different workflows who go well I don't do that I hide this and that's fine if you have a workflow
that works go for it if you haven't been using hide or you have geometry that's disappearing
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