The Outliner window

- [Instructor] Oftentimes, Sketchup users will want…to organize their models, and give everything a name,…and give everything a hierarchy.…For this, it's helpful to use the Outliner window.…If you're on a PC, you'll find that…in the default tray on the right-hand side.…And Mac users, you'll have to open it…under Window, Outliner.…For this model, we can see that there are already…some names given to things in this model.…If I select a few titles in the Outliner window,…I can see that the corresponding entity becomes selected…in my drawing area.…

If I double-click on that title,…I can see that I'm now working within that group.…If this has any nested groups, I can use the arrow key…on the left-hand side to now select the nested groups.…To change the name of a group within the Outliner,…like this one, which is just named Group currently,…which is the default, I can select it,…and then click on it once more to change the name.…

It's kind of a delayed double-click,…because a double-click will set us inside the active group,…