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Saving and loading components

Saving and loading components - SketchUp Tutorial

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Saving and loading components

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- [Instructor] In the last lesson, we looked a little bit at components and what they were and how to make them. In this lesson chapter 02 04, we're going to be saving some of those components and loading them up from a file location. Okay, so it gives you a little bit of understanding about the power of components. Now, individual objects like these which are components already so as identified in the outliner, that little symbol means that it's a component as opposed to the groups which are down here. There's only one in fact in this one and that's this sandy base. So that's the group there. I don't get the option to save the groups out to a folder location so if I right clicked on the group, I get no save as. However if I was to right click on one of the components, then I get to save as. So that's one of these pieces of ship black planning. And all I need really is to save one of them. And then I've got it to use at a future date. So the benefit of that is that once you've created…

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