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SketchUp components enable you to reuse objects. For example, pretty much every building has at least one door and window. Instead of modeling these common objects, you can insert a component that someone else has already made.
Like all geometry in SketchUp, a component is still made of edges and faces. The edges and faces are simply part of a special component group. (You can also create components to reuse your own geometry, but that’s covered in Developing Components and Dynamic Components.)
Table of ContentsGetting started with components
Before you start inserting components, you need to know that every component has a definition and an instance:
So, say you want to use a premade component called Framed Half Door with Double Panel. The component definition outlines what that door looks like, and you can insert as many instances of that component into your model as you like. In the following model, you see two instances of Framed Half Door with Double Panel. Inserting components, later in this article, explains how insert one or more component instances.
Tip: All this business about the definition and instances is important, because when you edit entities within a component instance, you edit the definition, too. Change the door’s glass, and the glass in all component instances changes. Change the double panel into a single panel, and all the doors in your model have a single panel, too. However, you can scale, rotate, and flip a whole component without changing the other instances. Editing components explains how to edit component entities or the component as a whole.
You can also replace all component instances with another component. If you (or a client) decide you don’t like the Framed Half Door with Double Panel, you can easily swap that component with a different one. See Replacing components, later in this article, for details.
Dynamic components have even more capabilities than regular components. If a component is dynamic, it has at least one of the following elements:
You can find a few sample components in SketchUp’s Components panel, but components’ true home is the 3D Warehouse, an online tool for searching and downloading 3D models created in SketchUp. This article helps you navigate the Components panel and start searching for components in the 3D Warehouse via tools available in SketchUp.
After you become comfortable inserting and editing components, you might develop a special fondness for components that you find in the 3D Warehouse or create yourself. To keep your favorite components handy and organized, you can create collections in the Components panel.
In the following video, you see a brief introduction to components, how components are different from groups, and ways you can edit components. Although this video was created on an older version of SketchUp, the basic component behavior and features are the same in current SketchUp versions. In the sections that follow, you find detailed steps that walk you through the basics of inserting and working with components and dynamic components.
Inserting components
You can insert a component instance into your model in three ways:
Premade components are most often inserted from the Components panel into a model. Follow these steps:
Tip: If you have trouble seeing the components in the Components panel, try changing your view options. Click the View Options button () and choose from Small Thumbnails, Large Thumbnails, Details, or List.
Note: After you download a component from the 3D Warehouse, the creator might update that component. To quickly update your local version of the component, context-click the component in your model, and select Reload from the context menu that appears. The components details page in the 3D Warehouse appears, where you can download the new version and thus reload your In Model component with the latest 3D Warehouse version. If you want to keep the old component but also add the new version to your model, context-click the component and select View Details. You see the component's details page, but instead of reloading the old component, the new version is added to your model as a new component instance.
If you have a SketchUp model saved to your hard drive, you can import that model as a component in another model. Follow these steps:
Dragging a SketchUp file from the File Explorer (Microsoft Windows) or the Finder (Mac OS X) into an open model also loads the SketchUp file onto the Move cursor. Simply click to place the component in your model.
Tip: When your component is loaded onto the Move tool cursor, the Move tool is anchored to the component’s axis origin point. If that doesn’t work for you, change the location of the component’s axis origin before you insert the component. Doing so will change the default insertion point. See Adjusting a component’s insertion point for details.
Replacing components
People like to see different options, and they change their minds all the time. When indecision strikes or your design just hasn’t become clear to you yet, know that you can easily replace one component with another component. Here’s how the process works:
Tip: SketchUp Pro users have an additional tool: the Swap Component command, which works with dynamic components.
PRO To swap out a series of dynamic components in SketchUp Pro, follow these steps:
Interacting with dynamic components
Your ability to interact with a dynamic component depends on its variables. In the following figure, you see a basic building with two instances of a dynamic door component.
To activate the component’s animation, select the Interact tool () on the Dynamic Components toolbar or select Tools > Interact. When you click the door with the Interact tool cursor, the door opens, as shown in the following figure.
This dynamic component also has configurable values. To see these values, click the Component Options tool () on the Dynamic Components toolbar or select Window > Component Options. In the Component Options window, shown in the following figure, you can choose from preset options for the frame width, frame height, door type, and more.
Searching for components
You can search for components in the Components panel or the 3D Warehouse.
In the Components panel, on the Select tab, you can use the following features to browse or search for components:
To access the 3D Warehouse directly from SketchUp, click the Get Models tool (), which you find in the following parts of SketchUp’s interface:
You can also select File > 3D Warehouse > Get Models.
Whichever method you use, the 3D Warehouse opens, as shown in the following figure. From the opening screen, you can browse the featured models, featured manufacturer catalogs, featured collections, and recent models. However, you most likely want to use the Search box at the top. Type a search term and click the Search button.
Tip: Start with the most specific search term. For example, if you’re looking for a window that’s a dynamic component with a cut plane that makes a hole in your model, type a search term like, dynamic component window cuts face. If you don’t find a component you like, make your search term less specific from there.
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When you find a result that interests you, click it to open its details page. Click the Download button in the upper right to download the component into your model. You then return to SketchUp, where the Move cursor is loaded with the component. Click in the drawing area to place the component in your model.
Adjusting a component’s insertion point
A component has its own axis origin point, which determines the component’s insertion point, or the point that’s loaded onto the Move cursor when you place a component in your model.
If the component is box-shaped (such as a dresser, cabinet, or the Mesopotamian Tablet of Destinies), the insertion point is typically the front, lower-left corner, as shown in the figure. That placement works great — unless you need to place the component against other components or otherwise work around existing geometry.
Whatever your reasons for moving the insertion point, here’s how to reset a component’s axis origin:
Tip: After you place a component in your model, you can move the component by any point you like. Simply select the Move tool (), click the point you want to use for moving the component, and click again to place the component. For example, after placing a cabinet component in your model, you might need to move the cabinet by its midpoint so you can slide the cabinet next to existing cabinets. See Moving Entities Around for more about moving entities with the Move tool.
Editing components
You can edit a component as a whole or edit individual entities within a component.
Editing or modifying a component instance as a whole affects only the component instance, not the component definition or other instances. Here are some of the edits you can make to a component as a whole:
Flipping and Rotating explains how to flip and rotate geometry. To rotate a component with the Move tool, hover the Move tool over a face that’s perpendicular to the desired axis of rotation until four rotation handles and a protractor appear on the face, as shown in the following figure. Then click a rotation handle and rotate the component.
Editing entities within a component changes the component definition, and thus changes all other component instances in your model. To learn about the more advanced techniques involved in editing a component definition, see Editing a Component in the Developing Components and Dynamic Components section.
You can also save edits to your component, revert an edited component to the original file, or explode the component:
Note: You can edit properties of a component, such as whether it cuts a hole in a face, or set variables for a dynamic component. Because these advanced tasks are closely related to creating components, you find out how to work with these properties in Developing Your Own Components or Dynamic Components.
Organizing component collections
In SketchUp’s Components panel, collections help you organize components.
The In Model collection is a special collection that’s an important part of the Components panel. It holds all the components saved with your model, whether or not those components currently appear in your model. When you context-click a component in this collection, you see commands not available in other collections, such as Select Instances, Reload, and more. To see your In Model collection, click the In Model icon (). If you’ve inserted several components that you no longer need to save with your model, click the Details arrow () and select Purge Unused.
SketchUp includes a few prebuilt collections, such as Architecture, Landscape, Construction, and so on. You find these collections by clicking the down arrow next to the In Model icon, as shown in the following figure.
Tip: By creating your own collections, you can organize components in whatever way makes sense to you. If you use certain components all the time, create a My Favorite Components collection. If you use specific components for a certain client or project, organize them into a collection so they’re accessible from a single collection.
The following steps explain how to create a component collection for your selected operating system (Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X):
Tip: After you have a few collections, you can add them to a list of favorite collections that always appears on the In Model drop-down menu. First, display the collection the Components panel: If you used the collection recently, you can select the collection by name from the In Model drop-down menu. If the collection doesn’t appear there, click the Details arrow and select the Open or Create Local Collection (Microsoft Windows) or Open a Local Collection (Mac OS X). After your collection appears in the Components panel, click the Details arrow and select Add to Favorites or Remove from Favorites.
Gathering intelligence about components
SketchUp provides a few tools that enable you to find important details about components:
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