On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:37:51 -0500, Gordon Shumway
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:52:45 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:


Now the trick. I want to see how the whole thing will look before
building so I color all the parts of the drawing including the walls the
correct color. From outside the nook area you cannot see into the nook,
the wall color is opaque. This however blocks the very narrow view of
how things are fitting behind the TV and the floating panels.
So to be able to see through the walls of the nook from the out side of
the nook I change the outer side of the walls to a transparent
color/material. The inside side of the nook walls remain opaque.
In effect this creates a one way view through the wall, you can see in
but cannot see out depending on which side you are viewing the wall.


As Artie Johnson used to say on "Laugh In," "Very Interesting."

I don't use Sketchup but I do use Pro-Engineer. I'll have to give it
a try.

I finally got around to giving your idea a try in Pro-E and it works
just like you described it. Thanks for the tip.

Can you "hide" parts in sketchup? I can select one or many parts to
"hide" and that just removes them from view temporarily. That
accomplishes the same goal as making one side of a part transparent,
so you can see through it, but with a lot less work.