If the plus sign is showing the arrow points down and a click on the icon opens the second pane below the first. In the upper right corner of the components window is a little icon either a plus (+) or a minus (-) sign above or below an arrow.
You don’t want to put yourself in a position where you have to wade through hundreds of files in “My Documents” to find the part you need.Īnother feature of the Components window that isn’t obvious is that you can open a secondary pane in the window. If you work on similar models on a regular basis, it pays to spend a little time organizing where you save these files so you can retrieve them later on. All you need to do is press the Save button. SketchUp uses the component name as the file name, and saves the file as a. Navigate to the folder on your computer where you want to save the component. One of the options that appears in the context menu is “Save As …”. In the Components window, find the thumbnail image of the component and right-click over it. You can either right-click with the cursor above the component, or do the same thing through the Components window. Saving a component as a model is ridiculously easy when you realize that it is possible. Why not save components as models so you can easily reuse them? Models in the warehouse become components when you place them in the model you are working on. If you think about it, this is how the 3D Warehouse and the Components window work.
Here’s how it works any component in a SketchUp model can be saved as a SketchUp file. Lucky for me the folks who created SketchUp provide a mechanism to do exactly that. It would save time if I were able to take a copy from one model and plug it into another. You can even make left and right mirror images of the same part.Įarlier today I was working on a model and realized that the part I was about to make (a pyramid shaped door pull) existed in another model that I created a few months ago. With components, you rarely need to draw anything more than once a component is a single entity that you can copy and reuse.
(Click here to read about why components are so important). In a good SketchUp model anything that is a distinct piece of wood in real life is a component.
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