#Edit sketchup shortcuts install#
#Edit sketchup shortcuts Pc#

Just right-click over an object (or a selection of objects) and select “Hide” from the menu. You can make objects invisible in SketchUp with the Hide command. Sometimes it’s better to make something disappear completely rather than make it transparent. If that box is blank, type your shortcut it the “Add Shortcut” box then click on the plus (+) sign. If a shortcut already exists, it will appear in the “Assigned” box. There you will find a list of the available commands in SketchUp. There is a list of available panes on the left side of the Preferences window, look for Shortcuts and click on it.

#Edit sketchup shortcuts Pc#

On a PC you’ll find it under the Window menu, on a Mac it’s under the SketchUp menu. To create a shortcut, open the Preferences window. In this case a custom shortcut allows me to toggle X-ray on and off. In my mind this is the ideal scenario for a custom shortcut.When I find myself doing something tedious or repetitious in SketchUp I start looking for an alternative. Editing the style or working through the View menu interrupts the flow of work. I tend to switch it on, perform one or two tasks and switch back to my normal style. It is a compromise between being able to see through something and seeing so much geometry that things can get confusing. I don’t like to leave X-ray on for very long. With X-ray on I can see through the floors to refer to the drawing and it makes it easier to move things around. I modeled floors and walls by tracing over the imported plan. I imported a floor plan as an image file and scaled it to its actual size. Here is a screen shot of the model with X-ray turned on. To save time, I created a custom keyboard shortcut that lets me toggle my x-ray vision on and off. There are several ways to turn this feature on and off that do the job but take several steps. The X-ray face style turns all the faces in the model transparent so you can see through them. You don’t want to get rid of the existing geometry, but it would nice to be able to see through the obstruction or make it invisible for a while. This example is a room plan, but the situation occurs in almost every model: Something is in the way of the task at hand.

A few years ago, I added a couple of custom shortcuts to help control the visibility of stuff in my models.

#Edit sketchup shortcuts install#

Those are all standard shortcuts that exist when you install SketchUp. One of the most popular posts on this blog is my “SketchUp Shortcuts Cheat Sheet”, a handy list of the shortcuts I use all the time.