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The Outliner window - Sketchup Pro Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training
The Outliner window
- Oftentimes you may want to organize your model and give everything a name and each piece a hierarchy. For this, it's helpful to use the outliner. If you're on a Windows machine, you'll find the outliner in the default tray on the right, and if you're on a MAC, you can open the outliner under Window and then outliner. For this model, we can see that there are already some names in the outliner. If I click on each title within the outliner, I can see that that group becomes selected within my model. If I like to work inside of that group, I can double click on the title, and now I'm active in this roof group here. Same with the patio I can double click here, and now I'm working within that group. To change the name of a group within the outliner, I can click on the name once, and then click a single click on it again, and now I can override that name. It's not a double click because that will open the group; it's more…
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