![]() For example, you might want to show the cabinet carcass interior with the doors out of the way. For nested groups or components there can be legitimate semantic reasons to associate nested groups with a different layer. There is no reason why nested groups or components need to associate with the same layer as their parent. Contents nested inside the doors won’t be visible regardless of what layer they associate with. when the cabinets layer is marked visible and the doors layer is marked hidden, all of the cabinet except the doors will be displayed.SU stops at the outermost container associated with a hidden layer and doesn’t even look at the layers for the nested contents. when the cabinets layer is marked hidden, all of the cabinet, including the doors will be hidden, regardless of the visibility setting of the doors layer.So, for example, if you have a cabinet group associated with the “cabinets” layer with nested door components associated with the “doors” layer: In particular, when entities are nested inside a group or component, their visibility is governed by an outside to inside search order over their associated layers. Your wording sounds to me like you may still have some confusion about SU’s layers. It causes immense confusion especially for users coming from CAD, (and also 2D image editing,) or those that still need a workflow that moves back and forth between SKP and CAD. Unfortunately, this has proven to have been an unwise decision. All that is ever done, is to change “layer” property attributes that point at a SketchUp layer object (which are not layers in any geometric sense.) Nothing is ever moved out of or into any geometric collection. Ie, the following dialog box is a complete LIE, from the window caption on down. (As Dave said, the primitive entitiy types need to be associated with “Layer0”.)ĭid you not read the SketchUp Online User Guide’s page on it’s layers (ie, Controlling Visibility with Layers,) that contains a huge warning box at the top, especially for users coming from the world of geometric CAD layers ?īut someone, in the SketchUp development team, had the “brilliant” idea that the SketchUp interface could lie to the user and pretend like it has geometric layers, and none would be the wiser. These “layers” can be associated with any number of dimensions, section planes, groups or component instances. ![]() The geometric entity’s “layer” is just a property that can hold a pointer to (currently only one) of these shared display property sheets, that are mis-called a “layer” in SketchUp. SketchUp “layers” are shared display property sheets, that can be “associated” with geometry to control display behavior, (in a sort of display sets,) across geometric collections (groups and components.) Therefore, geometry cannot “belong” to any layer, nor be put “on” any layer. The discussion in this thread is misleading with regard to SketchUp layers.
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