Chapter Nine. Mastering Scenes

Scenes allow you to capture the current state of a model by saving the properties that determine the view of the model and the way it’s rendered. This chapter explores the fundamental concepts for creating basic scenes as well as advanced uses of scenes within the context of professional workflows.

Creating a scene can be thought of as simply taking a picture of your SketchUp model that you can keep coming back to again and again. Scenes can also be used as the building blocks for creating different kinds of animated presentations, and they can be used to help manage large files.

The functions for adding, deleting, arranging, and otherwise managing scenes are contained in the Scenes dialog, which can be found under ...

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