Understanding the Outliner
One of the most overlooked tools in SketchUp is the Outliner window. Many users rarely, if ever, open it, much less use it in their regular modeling sessions. In case you are one of those who have not spent time with the Outliner, it is basically a list showing every Object in your model along with the full nesting hierarchy. Not only is it a display of all the pieces that make up your model; it’s also a way for you to select and toggle the visibility of everything!
Figure 2.6 – The Outliner shows every Component and Group in the entire model
We have done a good job of creating Groups and Components and assigning tags to them, so our simple dining room is easy to work with so far, but the Outliner will let you see the state of your model as well as giving you access to items that are not individually tagged. For example, let’s say you want to turn that Salad Fork Component off. Let’s do that using the...
