![]() All you’ve done is defined “I” to be the shortcut key you have chosen to toggle the “Hide rest of model while editing” preference.You - specifically - may think of it as “Isolate” - or perhaps you think of it as “Isolate” because, way back when, you wanted to assign a shortcut key to this toggle and realized “I” wasn’t already assigned, so you came up with “Isolate” as a mnemonic that works for you to remember the key. so I wanted to set each component separately on a button so that I can see my components at a glance and load them into sketchup with the push of the button. i have a large library of my own components. A visual cheat-sheet for the 135 default keyboard shortcuts found in SketchUp Pro. Nor is there such a thing as a “Sketchup Isolate Command”. So you can put everything under a button. Although Gully has a good point about using the Context menu items, I like keyboard shortcuts for the Flip commands.I use F2, F3, and F4 for flipping components and Shift-F2, Shift-F3, and Shift-F4 when I want to flip multiple entities. You can see the steps involved in working through the menu in the screen shot at right. ![]() ![]() Components and Groups already function to isolate the geometry of groups and components - using “isolate” with the meaning of “prevent interaction with” – the rest of the model. There isn’t a way to do it with just three keys without using modifiers. The command I chose to duplicate is found in the Edit menu. This is not, to my mind, anywhere close to isolating. This works only on groups and components - more specifically while editing groups and components, and the action you are accomplishing is visually hiding the rest of the model while editing a group or component. 10m Select (Spacebar) Ctrl add to selection Shift add/subtract from selection Ctrl+Shift subtract from selection Tape Measure (T) Ctrl toggle create guide or measure only Arrows lock direction up blue, right red, left green, and down parallel/perpendicular Resize resize model: measure a distance, type intended size, and Enter Zoom (Z) S. While the technique you are attempting to teach is, indeed, useful, I don’t like your terminology.
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