Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Chapter 3 Using SketchUp to Inform Your Designs
4. At this point, the wall is a “static” component that you could use like any other in
SketchUp. We need to turn it into a Dynamic Component, however. Therefore, open
the Component Attributes window using the button on the Dynamic Components
toolbar. Your workspace should look like this (when the wall component is selected):
5. As you can see, this dialog contains an Info tab that shows you all of the already
defined attributes. It also has a Functions tab, which gives you an overview of all the
functions that you can use with Dynamic Components. Let’s add some attributes
now. Click on Add Attribute to bring up a selection of common attributes. To begin,
we will add the LenX and LenZ attributes.
6. These attributes will report the lengths along the component’s (internal) red and blue
axes. At this point, they should show values of 48” and 99”, respectively.
7. Let’s add a calculated attribute now. Click on Add Attribute and type in a name
(instead of picking one). Name it GWB_Area (you can’t have spaces in names, hence,
the underscore).
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