- [Instructor] When we work in 3D there are many times when
we'll need to have multiple views of our scene available.
And we can do that in SketchUp using scenes.
Now on the Macintosh scenes will
be found under the Window menu.
On the PC it will be located in your default tray.
So if you're using Windows,
make sure you have scenes checked.
Now I am using Windows so I'm going to go ahead
and just pull out my default tray and pin that.
And you'll see I have a scenes rollout here.
Now this will look the same on the Macintosh as well.
Now I currently do not have any scenes
available in my project here.
But if i want to I can simply add
a scene by hitting the plus sign.
When I do that it asks me a question.
And it basically says that I'm updating
a scene and have not changed my style.
Sometimes you'll get this especially if you
change your face or edge views.
So I'm going to go ahead and use the default,
save as new style, and create a scene.
And when I do it creates this scene
and it just names it by default scene one.
Now the scene also shows up at the top
of the view port here as a tab.
Now if I were to move my camera or reorient my camera
I can just double click on the scene
and it will go back to that setting.
So now I have a fixed camera view of this scene.
Let's make this a little bit more interesting
and let's go ahead and add one more.
I'm going to create a top view of my scene, scroll out
and let's go ahead and do parallel projection,
and position that so it's in the center of the view port,
and then I'm going to hit plus to add another scene.
Now because I didn't change any of the face
or edge styles it doesn't ask me about styles,
but it does create a second scene.
And notice how I have this scene here as a second tab.
So if I click on scene one it actually
animates to that perspective view.
If I click on scene two, it gives me
a parallel projection top view.
Now I'm going to go back to scene one here
and let's show you another way to create views.
And that's actually changing the style of the scene.
So I'm going to go ahead and move my camera a little bit here.
But let's go into View and change
our Face Style to hidden line.
And then I'm going to add in another scene.
Now again because I changed the way this looks it's asking
if i want to create a new style and I'm going to go ahead
and select the default and hit create scene.
And now it creates scene three.
So if I go to scene one here, I get shaded.
If I go to scene three I get hidden line.
If I go to scene two I get shaded but I get a top view.
Now one of the things you may notice is
that these are kind of out of order.
So I have one, three, and two.
So if i want to rearrange these I can do that very simply.
All I have to do is hover over one
of the tabs and right click.
And I can move that left or right.
And in this case I'm going to move it right.
So now I have one, two,
and three.
Now one of the things you may notice is that
this is actually animating between these scenes.
And sometimes if you want to switch between
these quickly you may not want that.
Well we can change that by going into preferences.
So I'm going to go under View, Animation, Settings.
And that brings me into my preferences.
And what we can do is we actually toggle off scene
transitions, or change the number of seconds to zero
and that should give me an instant switch
between each one of these scenes.
So hopefully this gives you a little bit more flexibility
in how you view your projects in SketchUp.