GROUPS VS COMPONENTS in SketchUp - When to Use Each!
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- In this video, we talk about groups and components inside of SketchUp and when to use each of them!
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One of the more common questions I get when talking about SketchUp is the difference between groups and components, and when to use each of them. The answer, at least for me, is fairly simple - I use components any time I'm going to have more than one copy of an object in my model! Groups are great for non-repeating objects that you want to keep from merging with other geometry. Components are linked together so that every "instance" of the component will change whenever one instance changes, making future changes easy!
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Hi everyone! Do you have any guidelines for when you use groups and when you use components? Let me know in the comments below! :)
Justin! you are the best! Thank you for the tutorials.
Hey Justin, I'm really impressed with your tutorials. I've returned to school to study landscape architecture after retiring as a computer aided drafter (water/wastewater engineering). Your instruction is succinct and spot on - just what I need to brush up on new software skills. Thank you!
The transition from Rhino to SketchUp has been smooth so far because of your tutorials. Thanks man!
Excellent tutorials. You explain every detail very clear.
Love watching your videos, very self explanatory. Look forward to watching many more of your tutorials.
Just a little bit of advice for anybody watching any tutorial in VLC Media player, if you find the tutorials are to fast to follow, you can always slow the video speed down a scale, sometimes this helps to follow complicated tutorials. Thank you for your great videos.
Hi Justin. And just like that: I now have a solid understanding of when to use groups and when to use components! Many thanks.
Thanks Justin. Very easy to understand. I appreciate your videos about Sketchup and Blender.
I'm also a newbie--this was very helpful. Thanks, Justin!
Thanking you i needed to know the difference between groups and components.
Excellent. Really clearly explained a concept that I was struggling with.
This was exactly the video i needed to answer my question. Thank you
Perfect. Explained exactly what I was interested in. Thanks...
Really good Short and Compact Thank you !
Very straightforward. Thank you!
your youtubes are extremely useful. THANK YOU!!!!
Nice! Great explanation! Thanks!
I cant believe I have not been using components this whole time. Very helpful, thanks again!
Lol it's you and me, since 2016😂
Crystal clear! Thanks
Thanks for the guide.
to me, i feel its easier just to make everything a component, and if i want something different, i just set that as unique
Yes. I can't see why not just make all groups components, unless that produces too many components to manage.
Nice & clear thanks!
Really really helpful!! Thanks a lot!! 😇
Very well presented tutorial. Just another subscription for you.
Great explanation !! ✨✨
Thank you so much.. I really learned a lot from all your videos..
thankyou sir. Please keep up the good works
Thank you very much. I am a small contractor and this was very helpful.
VERY HELPFUL, THANK YOU
Great vid man, thanks
What key did you use on that light fixture to auto have symmetrical length when duplicating? 6:57
Very helpful, thanks.
Thanks a Mil.. I know this vid is a bit old already - It helped me a lot.
Awesome video man, I appreciate you putting this together!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great Bro always keep smile God Blessing you
Seems simple enough, thanks!
Very good. Thank you.
Great content thanks mate. Easy to follow and really well communicated... love your work :)
Glad you liked it!
Very good explanation
Hi Justin, is there a way of putting one of my most popular jobs in as a whole component and able to use it again on a new file to get my cut list or do i have to make a new one every time
I already created my design with a lot of 2x4x9' boards the same length. Is there a way to convert all of them to a component instead or do I have to delete them all and start over?
Now my concept clear thanks.
I watched this video about 6 months ago when I first started learning sketchup and it didn't make a bit of sense to me..... now it makes total sense. I'm working on figuring out the best way to organize my work now and need help with whether to group groups together or turn multiple groups into a component. I need to take your course,,,, when are you putting it on sale again?
Man, great video.
Maybe do a video on general shortcut keys and other workflow related things.
Working fast and smart.
great work and very straight forward
Thank you!
what control key did u use in 04:39 after rotating the piece and turn a mirror on it?
Thanks this was very helpful.
Glad it helped!
Excellent. New subject. Have you ever considered creating a lesson for those of us using SketchUp on a Chromebook? More and more of us are. Chromebook users are often frustrated because the controls are located in different places (delete guidelines for example) and seem to respond differently.
it is a great explanation of the differences and how to use both in a model
Thanks!
Very helpful - - thanks Justin!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the Video...I have seen your other vids on this but I still get Confused sometimes...thanks for the Definition once again Justin!
Glad it helped! :)
Excellent, I was wondering what the difference was for some time now. I am a newbie..
Can groups be converted into components (i.e. say you have 4 identical groups... could they be converted into a component, so that if you adjust one component the other 3 would follow) ?
Thank you!
This really helped me thanks! Is there a way to take something off of being a group or component after you already assigned it to an object?
Thanks Justin just what I asked for!
Glad it helped :)
Always informative...!
Glad you think so!
Hi Im finding your channel very useful as a beginner, but how do I merge 2 groups together? Thanks :D
Thank you, very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this, I'm a newbie. Correct me if I'm wrong.. Is it true that I can only make component of a 2d object? because I make component of a cube, copy it, change the color, but the other cubes' color are not changed..
I was trying the reverse order of operations. Component first, then group. That did not work out well for me. Thanks for the clarification.
Awesome! Came to learn about groups and components and left with making ninja star looking thing haha
Justin, I am not a full-time SketchUp user so your lessons are particularly valuable to educate me or refresh my memory. I'd like to compensate you on those occasions when I use your advice without becoming a Patreon (what a word) member. Is there some way I could do that?
Thanks, it was very useful!
Glad it was helpful!
Can you do components of separate far away parts like interior walls for compound house projects? So when you change one house the rest of the houses change?
Hey what was the shortcut keys you used on those lights to spread them out? I’ve seen the forward slash key used if placing a bunch of components between, but not extending out
yeah, someone please? haha
Hi Iike your explaination about Group and components of the object
Thanks!
I created a component with multiple small windows and set to cut face when added. When I add it to a face, it's not cutting the opening. Is this a feature that only cuts one window?
nice tutorial
Hi Justin; In your video, you made the 4 walls a group. How can I move or modify just one of the walls without my geometry sticking together ? Would I have to make each individual wall a component, or is there another trick that I haven't learned yet ? Thank you !
Make unique
ok...hanks for the video ...but how to multiply those copy ..it is any short key ?
Great video. Thanks. I'm still a bit confused as to the difference between single, double and triple clicking on both groups and components. It gets me into a lot of trouble when I'm modeling. Do you have a reference video that details this? Thanks in advance.
single click select one geometric shape. Like a line or a face.
Double click adds the edges to the selection.
Triple click adds whatever is touching to the selection.
So if you have a rail fence, clicking once would select the face of a rail. Double click would select the rail. Triple click would select the whole fence. Hope this helps.
Hey, sir, do you also provide classes of sketchup pro for beginners to advanced.
My favourite sketchup channel is growing baby
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thankyou dude
Thank u very much
Awesome.
i just wanted to see how you create and save a component inside a model to continue using it. I'm trying to create a system scaffolding print and im trying to save my different size components in order to gain speed
Thanks alot !!! I am really new to sketch up and last was making a simple box desing . Made out of lumner desings and I was making some of them conponets and some groups not even know what was for lol. And when I wanted to edit them and. Move theme it was whole mess thanks alot now I know what happened. I think i will just restart again. Or do you know how tonundo grups.? And or undo components?
Just explode them
@@archwaldo omg thank you so much..but Now i just got the new sketch up pro 2020. And now the components don't work 😥😥 what i mean is this i can make a simple rectangle make it component then push pull 1 feet up. Then make copies and then even selecting all them and remaking theme as components but still doesn't work when i push pull one of theme the others don't follow. Idk if the new sketch up pro turn that function off or i turn it off. But idk what's going on. But now i know how good making components is. And i can't use function 😱😱😢😢😢
Is there a way to create a permanent component library, so I can use the same built components in different files?
thank you
Thank you, these videos are really a big help. Do you do any cad videos or just sketchup
SketchUp, Blender, Rendering, and Fusion360. No CAD
how do you rotated and copied the object?
so what happens if its a group but then u need to change it to a component how do you go about that ??
useful-thankyou
Glad it was helpful!
Nice
Okay so when would you actually prefer using a group instead of a component? Cuz to me it sounds like components have all the benefits of a group and not the other way around? Even if i have just one copy of an object i might aswell make a component instead of a group right if it smooths out my workflow? To me groups sound useless.
04:35 how did you do that?
Justin, question that I can't figure out. Not sure if you have ever brought sketchup into Revit before. Strange thing happens and I thought it had to do with a component axis being in the wrong location and thus shifted it when imported into Revit. But no, tjhe sketchup file has no components. Just groups. In this example, it is groups of storefront and railings that move relative to the grouped walls. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Sorry - haven't brought SketchUp into Revit before - seems like the process has been made very difficult by some programming things
@@Thesketchupessentials Autodesk updated the import functionality with Revit 2020. You no longer have to save the Sketchup file down to version 8. I just can't figure out what was happening in this particular file. Thanks for the reply and keep up the good work.
thanks
Geis you are doing great
Sir u r great with sketchup and vray......u have nice feeds.... I'm a beginner with vray and sketch.....i need your help in the case...when i apply the material texture on the roof. The texture is applied by attaching one map with its copies...i want the whole roof texture like uniform.....but in my case dark border repeated in my roof texture. I need it to be uniform for realism....CAN U HELP ME???
Is that because your material is too small so it's tiling?
@@Thesketchupessentials thanks sir....for reply!!!!
Oh I see, thank you
How to ungroup any part of the entity?
Thanks
Welcome!
Hi Justin,
it is informative video, thank you
i appropriate if you can do more video on placemaker type plugin -- which is free or one time payment
I don't understand the question - Placemaker is a paid extension
can we have similar kind of extension but one time payment- not yearly subscription base
Finally found a solution for my sticky faces and figured out why sometimes replicated "Groups" were not changing when editing a group (it was never meant to be!)...
Is it possible to undo group/component if created in error?
Explode command :)
How can I make the names of the components of the same size the same instead of copying the components?
dobra robota
I had to change from Revit to Sketchup because my company is using Su for constructing details. It is like that Components is equivalent of Family in Revit and Group is Generic Model in Revit.
It is easy! 👍
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Indeed!