From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training
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Isolate a group or component - Sketchup Pro Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training
Isolate a group or component
- [Instructor] If another group is nearby and it seems to be in the way, sometimes it can be helpful to isolate that group so that it's temporarily the only geometry that we see. For example, if I wanted to work on this fireplace here, I might feel that the roof or something else is in the way. So I'm going to use a setting called Hide Rest of Model. While I'm double-clicked into this, if I go to View, Component Edit, Hide Rest of Model, I can see that now I have isolated just this fireplace so that everything else around it is not in my way. The only downside to this is that if I need to reference something outside of this group to infer to, maybe the roof, maybe the floor around it or the other furniture. If I click off of this, I can see that the rest of the geometry comes back. I'll give another example. I'll double-click into this roof here. And I can see that the rest of the model is now gone temporarily. I'll…
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