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Chapter 12: The Detailing Tools 
Fig. 12.13: 
The Table and Chairs component is selected and appears in the Entity 
Info box, indicating that the layer the component resides on 00 - TABLE AND CHAIRS.
Fig. 12.14: 
The pull-down menu under Entity Info shows all the layers in the model. Selecting a compo-
nent and then a layer from this list will place the component on that layer.

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Part 3: Modeling Detail
SketchUp Scenes 
The Scene menu allows you to toggle on or toggle off specific model properties with a single 
click. At its simplest, it’s used to save camera views (Fig. 12.15). To access the Scenes menu, 
select Window 
F
Scenes. Simply clicking the 
(+) button creates a tab on the top left of the 
screen under the main menu called 
Scene 1. Clicking the scene (+) button again will continue 
to create more scenes, each sequentially numbered(Fig. 12.16). Clicking on the tab at any time 
will rotate the view back to the saved camera position. 
You can control and save additional scene settings using Scene Properties in the Scene 
menu (Fig. 12.17). If you don’t see Scene Properties, click on the arrow at the top right of the 
Scene menu to make them visible (expand menu option as shown in Fig 12.15). This menu has 
many options, including updating, naming, and deleting scenes. The remainder of this section 
focuses on settings that are useful and frequently used for this book’s methods. To learn more 
about scene properties in general, refer to the Google SketchUp for Dummies series (Wiley) by 
Aidan Chopra.
Fig. 12.15: 
The Scene Menu options
Fig. 12.16: 
Clicking the (+) button will create 
a new scene. The Scene tab appears at the 
top left of the SketchUp screen below the 
main menu.