Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Architectural Design with SketchUp
16. Now click twice outside the actual model to get out of the component editing mode,
and enjoy your work! This is what you should see:
17. As a final step, take a look at the Components window.
After opening it, click on the house symbol to
see which components are loaded into your file. If you
did everything right, you should see the three custom
components in there: Post, Trellis Beam, and Trellis Beam
Half (as well as the default Google person, of course).
In this exercise, you practiced various techniques:
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Creating components
Working with nested components
Moving, copying, and rotating objects
Accurate positioning using inferencing, object snap,
and direct distance entry
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Editing components
I recommend you practice these techniques as much
as possible. As you will see in the next chapters, a wellorganized
component-based model is essential to getting
the most out of SketchUp.
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