Showing Multiple Furniture Options in SketchUp - Interior Design Tutorial

What's up guys, Justin here with TheSketchupEssentials.com back with another Sketchup interior design tutorial for you. So in today's video, I wanted to talk a little bit about displaying different options using layers inside of your Sketchup models. If you're looking for more great Sketchup tips, make sure you check out my Sketchup tips guide at TheSketchupEssentials.com slash tips. Now let's go ahead and just jump into it. There are a few different ways that you could kind of approach the way that we're going to do this. But basically what we want to do is we have a space, an interior space, and we want to look at several different options for different kinds of furniture and other things that could live inside of that space. So before I get started, model credit for this model goes to the Apartment Loft by Daniel Owen G. You can find this on the Sketchup 3D Warehouse. You can download this model and kind of follow along. And what I've done first is I've gone ahead and I've taken all the furniture in this model and I've kind of grouped it all together. So at least in this particular room. So I've taken all of this furniture including the bed and this little hanger thing and then the chair up here. I've put that all into one group. And you can find that group in the Outliner. You might even consider renaming that something like Furniture Option 1. And I will note this isn't super organized like most models from the 3D Warehouse. Everything's not exactly organized. It's just all kind of dropped in here. If you were to model this from start to finish this might look a little bit different. But what we want to do is we want to start off and we're going to take this group. So the group that's called Furniture Option 1. And we want to create a layer. And so in order to create a layer you're going to go into the Layers Toolbar on the right hand side of your page. And you're going to click the plus button and you're going to create a layer. And we're going to call it Furniture Option 1. So that gives us a layer that we can then put this group on. So we're just going to take this group and we're just going to click on this drop down right here. And we're going to select that Furniture Option 1 layer. And so what that means is that means that we can now turn this furniture on and off whenever we want to. So you can see how by clicking on this eye I can turn the furniture on. I can turn it off so that I can make it visible or not visible. And so now what we want to do is I've downloaded some other furniture from the 3D Warehouse. And some furniture manufacturers actually have collections of furniture that you can download. So in this case this is Necciuzzi Italia. So I assume that it's an Italian company. But it has this whole model in here with their different furniture options. Which you can then pick them and grab them and move them into certain places. So what I did is I downloaded this Necciuzzi Dolce Vita Vignette furniture set into my model. And it's kind of off to the right hand side here. And what I've done is I've kind of exploded this so that the different parts are in here separately. Just so it's a little bit easier for me to move everything around. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to start and I'm going to take these pillows. And I'm going to put all of this in a group. And I'm just going move this across and into my scene over here. So and one thing we're going to want to do is we're going to want to move this back against the wall. Kind of like this but off the wall just a little bit. And we may need to move some of the pictures on the wall around or something like that. I'm not ultra concerned about that for this video. But I'm just going to come through here and I'm just going to place all of this furniture or the furniture pieces that I want inside of this model. So I'm probably going to speed this piece up because it's just moving things around and putting them where I want them to be. Alright so we're going to call this furniture option number two. And so furniture option number two has a different furniture set in here than option number one. And if you remember number one is still sitting here in this 3D space. And so what we want to do with furniture option number two is we want to take all of this furniture that we brought in and we want to put all of that in a group. So I'm just going to take all of these furniture items. I'm going to right click on them and I'm going to click make group. And so now what I have is I have another group that I'm just going to rename in the outliner furniture option two. So now my furniture option is going to show up in here. Furniture option one isn't showing up because it's on that layer. So I'm just going to take this and I'm going to, what I'm going to do is I'm going to create another layer and I'm going to call it furniture option two. So I'm just going to click inside my layer section. I'm going to click add layer. We're just going to say furniture option two, and we're just going to click on this group to select it. And inside of our layers, we're just going to come up here and we're just going to click the dropdown and we're going to click furniture option number two here. And so now this furniture option is on its own layer. So I can turn these layers on and off individually, just like this. So I can just come in here and I can flip back and forth between the two of them. And you can have them both on at the same time. I don't really know why you would want to, but you can have that in there as well. And so this is great. Now we don't really have to do anything else if we don't want to because we can flip between these two. Probably what I would do in this particular situation though, is I would go ahead and I would create a couple of different scenes to display the two options. So right now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn off furniture option two, and I'm going to turn on furniture option one. I'm just going to go to view animation. I'm going to click on add scene, and we can go ahead and right click on this. And in 2019, they added the ability to rename a scene. So we're just going to call this furniture option one. And so now I'm going to take this and I'm going to turn off furniture option one, and I'm going to turn on furniture option two. And I'm just going to right click in here and I'm going to add another scene. So now I have two scenes that are saving those layer visibility. So you can see what the different furniture options are going to look like. So I can right click and I can rename this furniture option two, just like this. So you can see I can click back and forth between these scenes. And one thing to note about this is if for whatever reason, this isn't saving your layer state, you can go into your scene section of your tray. And if you scroll down, you just want to make sure that in each one of these furniture options, the setting for visible layers is checked. So when you check the box for visible layers, what that means is this scene is going to save the layer visibility inside of that model. So you can use this to really quickly create multiple different options for different furniture layouts and other things like that inside of SketchUp. So that's where I'm going to end this video. Leave a comment below and let me know what you thought. Was this helpful to you? Is this how you display different options inside your models? I just love having that SketchUp conversation with you guys. 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