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Introduction to SketchUp Layers

SketchUp Layers is a very useful feature of this software through which we can organize different components of any model in each separated section which you can call layers/tags. There are many characteristics of layers panel in this software, and by using them, we can do good management of components of any model. In the latest version of this software, you can find layers with the name Tags, and it has some more features than the layers panel of previous versions. You know almost every designing software has layers panel but in SketchUp is works in different ways. So let us have a look at it working in this software.

How to Use Layers/Tags in SketchUp?

You can manage your work in more defined ways if you start working with layers panel or tags in this software. So you can find the Tags/ Layers panel in the Default Tray panel, which is on the right side of the working screen.

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And enable check box of Tags option of a list of Toolbars dialog box.

And you can move the panel of Tags/Layer anywhere on the working window screen.

I have drawn this object. You can see in the Tags panel there is an Untagged tag/layer (in the previous layer panel, it was indicated by Layer 0), and all draw objects will be in the default tag/layer. You can see it in the Entity Info panel.

You have to remember that you have to assign the layer to any component from the Entity Info so that the component will move from the Untagged layer to the assigned layer. So I will select this component and go to the Entity Info panel, then select floor tag from the Tag option of this panel.

You can see this component now assign to the Floor tag/layer.

Now i will add one more tag/layer and name it as Wall.

Now i will draw a wall like this. After drawing it, I will assign it to the wall tag/layer from the Entity Info panel.

Now i will again draw this wall in wall layer in the same way as i did in previous.

Now, this time if you hide this wall layer, then the component of this tag will hide without affecting other layer components.

Now i will make a roof component and assign it to a new tag/layer, which is a roof tag.

And each component will convert into colored objects according to the assigned color to their tag/layer.

And component will have your assigned line type like this.

Let me add an empty layer, and i will name it a chair.

I will name it as Exterior.

You can move your desired tags/layer into any folder so that all layers of any object will be in one folder, and their management becomes easy.

You can delete that layer and its component also by choosing the ‘Delete the entities’ option.

Conclusion

So I think you can understand what layers are in this software, and now in the new version of SketchUp, we have known it as Tags, and I told you about additional features of the Tags panel which were not in the previous layer panel. So you can use this panel for better management of your work.