![]() Here’s another new tray I created – it’s called Presentation and includes the Layers and Scenes windows. The Entity Info tray with its single window is a simple example – any tray can have as many windows as you like. (Which means the Shift+E shortcut isn’t really needed – I just wanted to show the difference.) So now if I want to toggle on and off the entire Entity Info tray, I use Ctrl+E. Since I used the Shift key for the window shortcut, I’m using the Ctrl key for the tray: Ctrl+E. For this tray display, the command is Window / Entity Info / Toggle Visibility. And you can set up a shortcut for this, too. To remove the Entity Info window from the display, its tray must be closed. Repeating this shortcut will not toggle the window closed. But pressing Shift+E again affects only the window, not the tray. So this Shift+E shortcut will open the Entity Info window, and therefore also the Entity Info tray that contains it. ![]() For this command, I entered the shortcut Shift+E in the Add Shortcut field, then clicked the “plus” icon.Īs long as your shortcut isn’t already used by another command, it’ll appear in the Assigned field. It’s a bit confusing at first, so read on carefully.Įxample: For my Entity Info window (not tray), the command in System Preferences is listed as Window / Show Entity Info. A shortcut now either opens (or closes) an entire tray, or opens an individual window within a tray. You can still do that, but trays add a level of complication. But to summarize, anything shortcut-related is handled in the System Preferences window, Shortcuts page.īefore SketchUp 2016, you could set up keyboard shortcuts for opening each UI window. We already discussed SketchUp shortcuts – Part 1 of this series discussed how to set them up Part 2 of this series showed how to set up shortcuts for quick display changes. If you’re paying attention, you’ll see that my Entity Info window used to be part of Default Tray, but once I placed it in a different tray, it was taken out of Default Tray. A window cannot exist in more than one tray. Keep in mind, any window can be assigned to only one tray (or no trays). To do that, just drag the tab to wherever you want the tray to sit. ![]() Both trays can be accessed by tabs at the bottom of the tray area.īut I don’t want the Entity Info tray located on the left side with the other tray I want it on its own, in the middle of things. So now I have two trays: Default Tray and Entity Info. Name the new tray “Entity Info,” and set it to contain only the Entity Info window (windows are called dialogs here). I like to have the small but handy Entity Info window available on its own, not as part of the large, default tray. You can also remove a window directly from a tray by clicking its X icon. You can check or uncheck windows on this list. This lists all of the windows that are included in that tray. ![]() But if one crowded tray doesn’t work for you, you can set up additional trays to *almost* mimic how individual windows used to work.įirst, go to Window / Default Tray. I’ve been accustomed to my little UI windows for years now, and it’s disconcerting to have this limitation on where they can go. But most SketchUp users don’t use LayOut and won’t understand where this change is coming from. I get that the tray setup is supposed to make SketchUp look and feel more like LayOut, and consistency is a good thing, I suppose. I’m not sure yet how I feel about this change. (And if you’re a Mac user, none of that has changed, for now.) Used to be that you could have UI windows wherever you wanted – stacked up with other windows, minimized, or open individually all over the place. (I find the minimized tray annoying – I keep mine open or close it altogether.) Also, if you click the pin icon in the tray’s title bar, you’ll minimize the tray into a tab – the tray opens when your cursor is on the tab. Or you can just place the tray anywhere in the middle of the screen. The tray doesn’t seem to work well docked to the top or bottom, but left and right docking is fine. You can move the tray itself by dragging its title bar, and you can dock the tray (attach it) by dragging it to an edge of the SketchUp window. Within the tray you can re-order windows by dragging title bars up and down. Here’s my default tray, docked to the left side of my SketchUp window. SketchUp provides one tray by default, populated with a few standard UI windows. This post will show how you can manage trays, create new ones, and set up shortcuts to open specific trays and windows. (In versions before 2015, windows could be displayed separately. If you’re a PC user who’s using SketchUp 2016, all of your UI windows are now in one or more trays.
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