When you activate the ConDoc System, you’ll see a floating heads-up display (HUD) in your SketchUp window. This panel gives you quick control over tag visibility, drawing sets, and modeling settings—without digging into the Tags dialog or Scene manager. It’s designed to help you stay organized, work faster, and get the most out of the ConDoc Tools system.

Each button on this HUD is labeled below. If you're just getting started, this article will help you understand what each button does and when to use it.

1. Reset

Clicking Reset brings your model back to a clean, high-performance working state. It’s your go-to when things feel cluttered or out of sync.  

• Turns all ConDoc Tags back on
• Activates a lightweight Design style (no profiles, no shadows, fast performance)
• Loads or triggers the Design Scene tab (if it doesn't exist yet, it's created)
• Resets the active SketchUp tag to Untagged

Click Reset again to perform a zoom extents, centering your model view.

2. Active Drawing Set

The Active Drawing Set is displayed near the top of the HUD. This is not a button—it simply shows the name of the .condoc file currently loaded into your model.

Knowing which drawing set is active is important because it controls:

• Which drawing types are available in the tools (plans, sections, elevations, perspectives)
• Which tags are loaded into your model
• What tag states the HUD toggles through
• How scenes are named and styled
• A number of deeper model settings

3. ConDoc Tags Applied to Selection

This section of the HUD gives you a live readout of the tags assigned to the currently selected entity.

You'll see:

• LEVEL tag
• ELEMENT tag
• LOCATION tag
• CONDITION tag

It updates in real time as you click around in your model, making it easy to see how geometry is tagged—without opening the full ConDoc Tags dialog. If you just need a quick confirmation of how something is classified, this is the fastest way to do it.

4. Load Drawing Set

• What kinds of drawings appear in the tools
• How those drawings are built (tags, styles, scenes)
• Which tags are added to your model
• What tag state presets are available in the HUD

Behind the scenes, a lot happens when you load a set. You're essentially preloading a recipe for drawing generation and visibility control.

5. ConDoc Configurator

The ConDoc Configurator opens up the full customization engine behind your drawings.

Inside the Configurator, you can:

• Create entirely custom drawing sets
• Define your own LOCATION tags
• Add or remove ELEMENTS
• Adjust which tags appear in which drawings
• Stack viewports however you like
• Apply your own styles
• Name and organize scenes in any format you want

You can completely reprogram ConDoc to suit your firm’s needs. That said, most users won't need this right away. Everything works out of the box with the provided drawing sets, and we’ll cover advanced Configurator use in a dedicated article.

6. Project Settings

The Project Settings button opens the dialog where you define how many levels are in your model and whether or not there’s a basement.

What you enter here controls:

• How many plans are generated for tools like Construction Plan or Reflected Ceiling Plan
• Where the section cuts are placed (based on finished floor heights)

For example, if you enter three levels, the system will generate Construction Plan Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. Each one will be placed at the correct height automatically based on your input.

7. Support Page

The Support Page button opens the ConDoc support portal in your browser.

• Search the knowledge base
• Open a support ticket
• Hire a ConDoc Pro
• Access additional help and resources

If you’re stuck or need guidance, this is the fastest way to get expert help.

If you’re stuck or frustrated, don’t hesitate to reach out. Call Mike at the office at 720-443-3242, email support@condoctools.com, or visit the support page.

8. LEVEL Tag States

This button toggles visibility for LEVEL tags like LEVEL 0, LEVEL 1, LEVEL 2, LEVEL 3, etc. It steps through isolating each level one at a time, and then finishes by turning them all back on.

Behind the scenes, this button is simply toggling tag visibility in the SketchUp Tags dialog—but without you needing to open it.

LEVEL tags help you focus your modeling and drawing efforts one floor at a time. It’s especially useful for navigating complex, multi-story models.

9. LOCATION Tag States

This button toggles through LOCATION tags one at a time—such as INTERIOR, EXTERIOR, SITE, and CONTEXT. These help you filter what’s visible in your model based on spatial context.

Each drawing set includes its own LOCATION tags. For example, the Architect and Landscape sets include different LOCATION tag configurations than the Interiors set.

Using this toggle makes it easier to organize your work by area, and reduces clutter when modeling or generating drawings.

10. CONDITION Tag States

This button toggles through different combinations of CONDITION tags—like DEMO, EXISTING, and NEW. These combinations are designed to show you meaningful construction phases in a renovation project.

Some examples:

• Existing + New = Your proposed design
• Demo + Existing = Existing conditions
• Demo only = Demolished geometry
• New only = Proposed new elements
• Existing only = Original structure, untouched

These combinations help you better understand your project and communicate design intent across different stages.

This toggle does not cycle back to “All On,” since showing all CONDITION tags at once is rarely useful. To return to a clean state, just hit the Reset button.

11. 2D / 3D Tag States

This toggle switches between 2D Graphics and 3D Objects in your model by turning visibility on and off for the associated tags.

• Click once to show only 2D Graphics
• Click again to show only 3D Objects

It does not return to a state where both are turned on—but hitting Reset will restore everything.

If something looks off in plan, this is a great way to troubleshoot. Toggle on 2D Graphics only to isolate what’s being represented in plan view, then adjust from there.

12. ELEMENT Tag States

This button toggles all ELEMENT tags either ON or OFF.

Unlike the LEVEL and LOCATION tag toggles, this one doesn’t cycle through individual elements—there are simply too many to manage that way. Instead, it’s designed to work in conjunction with the ELEMENT Tag Freeze and ELEMENT Tag Isolate tools found on the ConDoc Express Tools Toolbar.

13. Toggle Utility Styles

This button cycles through several predefined SketchUp styles that are optimized for specific modeling tasks. Here’s what you’ll see:

• Orient Faces – Highlights reversed faces by showing front sides in pink and back sides in green. Helps ensure clean, outward-facing geometry for rendering.
• Axis Check – Shows edges by axis (red, green, blue) so you can find any geometry that’s off-axis.
• Scope Diagram – Legacy style that helps visualize new vs. existing conditions. Note: This is only effective when using the older legacy ConDoc tagging system and may be retired in future versions.
• Design – The default, lightweight style used by the Reset button. Clean, fast, and optimized for modeling.
  

14. Toggle Grid Shifts

This tool cycles through alternate grid orientations by shifting the active axes in SketchUp. It updates the “active sketching context,” allowing you to draw along non-orthogonal axes with ease.

By default, there are four Grid Shift options: 0°, 15°, 22.5°, and 45°—but these can be changed in the ConDoc Configurator under ConDoc System Configuration.

Use this if your project includes angled geometry (e.g. a 45° wing off a house). Instead of manually rotating the axes each time, you can click to toggle between custom orientations.

Grid Shifts speed up drawing and modeling on rotated parts of your project—without breaking alignment or geometry.

15. ConDoc Tags Dialog

This button opens the ConDoc Tags dialog, where you can view, assign, or remove tags from selected geometry.

• Click on a tag to assign it to the selected object
• Click again to remove the tag
• See which LEVEL, ELEMENT, LOCATION, and CONDITION tags are already applied

We’ll cover advanced tagging workflows in a dedicated article.