A correct thought pattern would be “don’t just make the entities that reference this layer invisible, delete them”. I must note that, based on what I wrote above, that this dialog and option are highly misleading as they create the impression that the layers “contain” the entities, which is not correct. A dialog will ask what you want to do with the geometry associated with those layers. After you select the geometry and create a component or group, you can assign a layer to the component or group. An example that creates two menu commands at the bottom of the View menu. code Set Layer Colors menu command example Ruby API. In the copy, use the layers window to select and then delete the layers you don’t want to retain. Basically, you need to toggle between zero opacity and full, all though it might work better with one color (white) for all layers.Now I’m facing some problems with the documented and real situation. Based on DanRathbun code and sWilliams idea I have made a dirty plugin for changing several properties of layers at once. This will contain both all your existing geometry and all your existing layers Layers vs Pages visibility study -> mistakes in documentation. As you may know, layers just control visibility, unlike the layers function in other programs. Then try to hide the layer you wanted to hide in the first place. If objects are selected Change ByBlock to ByLayer Specifies whether to change ByBlock properties to be ByLayer. Click Setup and then click Modify layers. Settings Displays the SetByLayer Settings dialog box, in which you can specify which object properties are set to ByLayer. Example: Create layers for DWG export On the File menu, click Export > Drawings. Open the Layers window or tray and check a different layer. Specifies which object should inherit layer properties (ByLayer).

Use File->Save Copy As to create a duplicate. It sounds as if you have a layer checked as the active layer.With the risk that it might do other than what you want, here’s one way: Yes, this is different from how most other applications use the word “layer”, and it is an endless source of confusion for new SU users with experience in those other apps. SketchUp uses Groups and Components for those purposes. They do not create any sort of unit from that geometry and do not isolate it from interaction with other geometry, even geometry that is currently hidden because its layer is hidden. They are purely and only a mechanism to simultaneously control visibility (and color if the current Style has modeling->color by layer checked) of an arbitrary set of geometry. Please correct me if I am wrong, but “save certain layers” sounds to me like you don’t yet understand what SketchUp’s layers do.

Set sketchup layers to bylayer