In SketchUp, the Tags Panel has options to give your tagged entities dash patterns. With these dash patterns you can define property boundaries, identify entities that are temporary, or create a grid or reference lines. Dashes also help you follow simple and efficient workflows when you use SketchUp with LayOut or another CAD program.Here are a few things to keep in mind when adding dashed lines to your tags:

What Happened to Layers? SketchUp’s Tags are an updated form of what was called Layers in older versions. Tags provide the same functionality that Layers provided and more.Tags help you organize the objects in your SketchUp model and control their visibility. SketchUp allows you to hide tagged objects in one click rather than select each object individually. Hiding large chunks of your model using tags helps to find things faster and even speed up SketchUp a bit too.

If you use LayOut for Microsoft Windows, you can create panel trays for the panels you use most often, or to keep the panels you need for different workflows organized and ready in a single click. To create a custom panel tray, follow these steps:

In LayOut, layers enable you to control the entities on your document pages as follows: