SketchUp - Object Properties

The Object Properties window is used to manage per-object attributes:

It may be opened by clicking the Object Properties button in the plugin's toolbar:

Please, notice the geometry has to be grouped for this panel to be active

This window tracks the active selection, with modifications being made to all selected objects. Several properties are supported:

Property	Description

Property	Description
Opacity	Sets the opacity of the object, regardless of its assigned material.
Boolean	Sets this object to act as a render-time boolean, used to cut other geometry, rather than be rendered itself. When set to Box or Sphere, the bounding box of the geometry defines the size of the cutting primitive. For more information, see here.
Object ID	Sets the color for this object in the Object ID Render Channel (and therefore only applies in the context of the Render Suite plugin).
Smoothing	This value is either used to smooth normals on geometry, post-export, or to determine the smoothing applied by the Subdivision Modifier, when Subdivision is enabled.
Subdivision	Enables Subdivision for this object. Due to the type of meshes produced by SketchUp, it is generally best to use the Loop Scheme. For more information, see here.
Hidden From…	You can toggle some visibility flags for that object in this section. Scene: hides it completely Camera: the object won’t be visible to the camera but will still contribute to the light solution and will cast shadows, will be visible in reflections and refractions. Camera Shadows: it will hide the object in the Shadows channel. Check here for more information. Global Illumination: the object won’t cast shadows and the light will go through it as if it was not there, however, it will be visible to the camera. It can be useful to get quick glass. Reflexion / Refraction: the object will be visible to the camera but it won’t show in the reflections or through the refractions of other objects. Z-clip: the object won’t be affected by the camera z-clip option.

Be aware that Subdivision may easily consume a great deal of memory, and may therefore crash the SketchUp process.