Can't believe I have overlooked this for sooooooo long!! You are the best!

I like that you mix the advanced stuff with the basics sometimes. There's something for everyone.

Well explained. I am using the outliner but am new to sketchup so find your videos invaluable....

Your explanations are so clear, succinct, no waffle and no sleight of hand mystery. A magician without tricks. Thanks.

Justin you are the clearest explainer I have encountered on KZfaq

To say that learning how to use Outliner was a game changer is a gross understatement. I finally know which group I'm editing, especially nested groups! Thanks, this is saving me so much time!

I haven't made a complex SketchUp model for about a year. This is exactly what I needed to know before diving in again. Thanks.

That was very helpful and solved multiple problems for me thanks Justin 🙏♥️

Model organization is so important for any CAD program. This is very helpful!

Using Outliner since I watched your video indeed it saved me a lot of time! Once again thank you for your help!

As a Solid CAD program user this is the part that`s essential ! I have only been using Sketchup a few days as I tried it before and found it very difficult and faffy to edit or organise. Thanks.

Thanks Justin. I have used Sketchup for almost a decade and never knew about this tool. I will be from now on! :)

I already knew about Outliner before this video, but guess who made me aware of its existence? Before I found your channel, I thought that Layers were our only option to organize a model - and it sucks for this particular purpose. Thank you, man!

You have mentioned the Outliner in other videos but what you did here made me excited to start using my Outliner on a more proactive level. Thank's Justin for all your help with this amazing Sketchup software.

As a new user, this tutorial has just made things a whole lot easier! Thanks for showing! :)

Excellent time saver and organizer tip. Love It!

Super helpful!! I always used the cut and paste in place to add objects into groups, which was very time consuming and easy to make mistakes, with the help of outliner it becomes so much easier!! thank you!

UMMM I'm a Sketchup user since 2009 and I've never used the Outliner...Starting tomorrow that'll end!! thanks!

thank you justin. love the tutorials you share.Godspeed

JTender As usual, you do a great job. Your videos are very helpful and thanks so much for doing them.

Great video! Didn't realize how powerful outliner is until you made this. Thanks a lot! Keep it up

INSANELY THE BEST TOOL! Glad I found this video!

This is going to change my life. ❤

Thank you. Very helpful. I am having to put all objects as components as I am using the OPENCUTLIST extension and it will not work with groups. So far the Group examples in this video seem to work well with the components.... LOVE the drag to top to get rid of the subgroups.... Thanks again

Super helpful- never knew about Outliner! Thanks

Justin, Thank you for this great video. Can you make a outliner tutorial about a building like showing how to organize floor plans in outliner?

The combination of the outliner And the layers is a winner! Great video Justin!

Thank you! You're an angel 😇

This was a very good video and covered a lot of questions that I had thank you

Thank you so much for this video. I stumbled across the outliner a few days ago and had an Idea what it was about, but your video has helped a lot to make more sense of it. My model is a mess of groups all called group in the outliner. AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!

Great video very useful, speech delivery and cursor click rate a little high for my English ears & new eyes but I got there. Very helpful, I had been using Layers but will now make use of this. The point about objects on switched off layers not appearing at all in Outliner was probably the most significant one for me; well explained and enjoyable; thanks Justin 👍🏻

Hey Justin, Great explanation of Outliner. I think in terms of BIM and how under utilized SKU is in this area, perhaps mentioning this would be a really good tutorial. I actually haven't used Outliner too much since I don't do much BIM with SKU, but that is changing very quickly. Thanks for the tutorials.

Thumbs up for "Me and Bonnie 1" alone, the tutorial is a bonus :)

Super helpful. Thank you.

Thank you Justin.! That's really saving a hell amount of a time.

Super helpful! I'll definitely be using Outliner more now. Thanks for this.

Brilliant! - I am just a beginner, but this has been very helpful in terms of organisation. I had just signed up for another course which I am finding extremely difficult, and keep coming back to your tutorials to help me figure things out. Just wish I had signed up to your course...

this was VERY HELPFUL THANK YOU FOR THIS. i just finished making exterior of a building and gonna do the interior but things are hella messy lol gonna remember this for future projects

Thanks Justin thanks again I think you may have just solved a problem for me, well several problems. I couldn't understand why 'Unhid all' didn't always unhide things.All the best . . . Andy

Man the like button is not enough. KZfaq needs a love button for this video

Very helpful. You mentioned layers. I'm trying to figure them out. Could you explain them a bit more? Thanks.

Love it dude! This is a chronic organizer's dream!

You are amazing brother

at last I understand what outliner is for!! horahh!!!

Thanks for the video, Justin. It was really good to see the outliner in action. I'm a woodworker/furniture designer and I've been messing around with the outliner quite a bit in an effort to save time and stay organized. I was wondering if you may be able to cover the difference between components and groups a little bit more in-depth for drawing sake but ALSO organization sake. In fact, almost more for the organization sake. For example, let's say I have identical components (or subcomponents that make up a larger "over-arching" component) that I would like for changes to occur to each when I make a change to one, and they occur in a symmetrical fashion. Meaning they oppose each other in opposite components of the project such as a corner on a front and back panel, or right and left panel. That way I could pull the entire panel away from the project and keep all the components together in order to expose other parts of the project. Any thoughts or ideas? Anyone else have any input or a source I could go to for some insight? Thanks

Brilliant.

Why did not I use outliner before?? It's amazing simple!thank you very much,Justin)

It is very The Most Underused Tip as you said! Thank you very much!

Super understanding thanks man, very meaningful because I'm a student

Very helpful

Thanks Justin. I've used outliner extensively since you started promoting it way back, and it really is a powerful tool. It has several downsides. For complex models it slows down SketchUp so much I have to turn it off. Secondly, Trimble prefixed "instances" in the group or component name in "outline". IMHO, "instances" should follow the name or at least be optional in the "outliner" window

I love outliner, thanks!

Thank you for this video! It is easy to understand

Nice reminder. Great content and quick explanation. Well done!

Thanks Justin, that was really helpful

Good refresher ! Thanks.

Useful like a hell ! Thank man!

Thanks Justin.

Your videos are wonderful. But one guidance I want. I am unable to change the colour of a sofa or say Chair. How to do that ? Should we use outliner to change the colour. Can you please make out a video on that because you are an expert really. Good work. Keep it up.

Great!

Wow this is really helpful!

Best!

do you have a video where you explain best practices for using Tags? I've been using sketchup for a while and I still feel like I could be more efficient in how I use layers / tags.

Excellent work and video! However I am a little confused between using layers which I have been using for a while. I understand that OUTLINER seems to be more structured in terms of arborescence and the hide principle, but what is the basic advantage of OUTLINER vs LAYERS which you turn on or off. Am I to understand that you do not use layers in your work. Thank you so much for all of your videos.

is there a way that I can add the cylinder to two groups? once I click on the shapes outliner I have the cylinder included, and once I click on another group outliner (curvy items for example) I also get it selected

really helpful, thanks. subbed

You are the best! 💪🏻

Thanks a lot. it's really useful

Thank you~ It's so helpful to me~!!!

Probably off topic here. But I'm new to sketchup. I downloaded slicer, but it won't work Keeps saying no digital signature. Looking to make parametric wall art.

Great teatcher :)

WhuUUus'up Justin! I'm a 20+ year user of Maya so the Outliner is always a welcome feature. It's similar in many ways but I've a small ish.. Q1 :: @12:40 In your reorg example, you drag-selected a group and moved it to another group, you got a placement indicator as to where it will drop... I'm not getting that with my machine. Is there a pref for this? Using Win10 btw. Q2 :: Is it possible to drag a group out of a group and onto the root layer -as its own group? My attempts simply drops the group into another random group located in the root, but it won't stick to the root layer like I see in other apps (i.e. Maya Outliner, Photoshop layers, Windows File Explorer, etc..). Awesome channel!

Thx! Very helpfull tip :-)

Thanks for the great tutorial! Watching I was wondering why there is no easy way to edit an object that is part of a group. Like you said, you either have to double-click your way through your groups and the referring sub-groups or access them via the outliner. But why there is no way to e.g. cmd-click on the particular object and edit it right away?

ANY ONE CAN HELP ME I USE SKP 2021 AND EDITING SO MUCH OBJECT THAN MY OBJECT SUDDENLY LOST WHEN I SAVE THE FILE.

Hi, I've got Sketchup Pro 2018 on OS X, the Outliner and Layer options don't appear in 'Window' tab the same as they do in the video. I can activate Outliner as a pop-up box, similarly 'Layers' as a separate box. Is there a trick for consolidating all the useful sub-menus into one right hand dialogue box like in the video?

Help! For some reason my (new) 2019 skp turns off ALL of the surrounding model when I edit a group - VERY MUCH A Nightmare - Need to see the group (even if it's shaded) so I can see how the two entities interact - IS THERE A PRE-SETTING I can turn off? HELP!

It would be helpful to see the outliner applied in a real-life situation (within a real model) rather than just random shapes which aren't likely to ever show up in any model I make. I can't really get a sense of its power as a tool since copying and grouping and ungrouping cylinders isn't big on my to-do list.

Justin, how do you make money using SketchUp or I should say a side business. It would be interesting to know how others do it. Great videos that thanks

Wouldn t it be quicker when making a group or component to directly right click on it and rename it instead looking for it in outliner and rigtclickin rename

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I knew the Outliner was either a treasure chest or a pandora's box, only looking at it a few times in five years. I'm a slow learner, maximum three things at a time. Sketchup, the program continues it's legacy of appearing simple, but being capable of almost anything. Since Gates, there has been a communications disconnect between the programmers and the users wherein the programmers 'interpret' the business and needs of the user as best they can, but are never able to think like a carpenter, or develop an algorithm that follows a contractors' logistical sequence, because buildings aren't cube farms. The best attempts are simply new interfaces (GUI's) for linking data to objects in an attempt to be 'intuitive'. AutoCad and Chief Architect and most others are all worthy of awards, but none have the intuitive interface and interaction of Sketchup. Same to Justin and Bonnie (common sense sounding board) for showing us how to extract the best stuff.

sir i have a question, it will reduce the lag if i hide some objects?

Dang, where was this video two weeks ago when i lost half my geometry because i hid it and couldnt find it! Haha. Thanks. Oh, and what moc do you use for your recordings? Thanks

outliner is much more convenient than layers ?

I DONT HAVE AN OUTLINER IN MY MENU OMGG

JTender

Bonnie and me, is more correct.

More like a side business. Types of people to contact businesses that would use the services of SketchUp

I bet you dont know how to select all component in outliners and switch them to group. sketchup is sucks and waste of time especially with that component features make very big bullshit file size

I feel like your tutorials are biased towards architecture and real estate industries because you never talk about stuff relevant to game making.