From the course: SketchUp: Kitchen Design
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Demolishing with layers - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp: Kitchen Design
Demolishing with layers
- [Instructor] This video is about layers. Open the Kitchen 2.skp file to follow along. We're going to be using layers in this project to indicate what's going to happen to these objects. Are they existing to remain? Will they be demolished, or are they new? Go to the Window menu and open up the Layers window. In Windows, Layers is part of the default tray. It may have to be turned on under the Windows menu, Default Tray, Layers. By default, all SketchUp models have a Layer Zero, and everything that we've made so far is on Layer Zero. Let's make some new layers. Click the plus button and type, Existing to Remain. Click plus again and type, New. Click it again and type, Demolish. Click it one more time and make a Sketch layer. Layer Zero is always going to be at the top and all of your other layers are going to be alphabetized automatically. Now go to the Window menu and choose Entity Info. On the Mac, we can dock our palettes together so that they act as a unit. In Windows, these…
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