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Making components - Sketchup Pro Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training
Making components
- [Instructor] A component is much like a group in that it provides a protective barrier around geometry so that no other group or geometry will stick to it, but it also has other qualities. It acts as a bit of a supergroup. When geometry is made into a component, any copy of that component you make will be changed along with all of the other components that it's linked to, or the original. To demonstrate this, let's make a staircase. If you haven't already watched the Make an Array video, you may want to review that first. In this model, I've used a rectangle that is four feet by one foot to represent a stair tread. We're going to extrude this shape using the push/pull tool, p, to click and release and move it up eight inches. So I'm going to type eight, enter. Now I have an eight inch tall stair tread. Now, let's draw a selection box around this, so space bar, click and drag a selection box around this so that all of…
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