For now, the chair’s back is oriented to the negative red axis. Delete the diagonal line.ģ Orient the axes of all your components in a homogeneous way.īy orienting all your components homogeneously, you will be able to replace a component by another using the Reload command without having to rotate all copies of the component in your model afterwards.įor example, I chose to always orient the back of the chairs and seats to the green positive axis. Next, select all the chair entities and move it with the Move tool from the Midpoint of the diagonal line to the Origin of the axes. To find the correct axis origin for this chair, draw a diagonal line from two opposite chair legs. This way, you can replace the seat component with another one larger (or shorter) or higher (or smaller) seat with the Reload command. Now delete all the entities that are not part of the chair.Ģ Place the insertion point consistently (and intelligently)įor a chair, it will be on the ground plane, centered in the middle of the seat. Now open the Layers dialog box and check both Google Earth Snapshot and Google Earth Terrain visible. On the chair you just downloaded, you will instantly notice Susan but, when displaying hidden entities, you will also find a hidden guide and a hidden box.
Be sure to display all the entities of the component ! Remember to make all layers visible and display hidden geometry from the View drop down menu. This can be edges, faces, guides, images, or other components or groups.
Select the component « TUTO Chaise à optimiser 2.0 ».Ī component is often cluttered with useless elements. NB : Do it yourself by searching for « tuto chaise » in the 3d Warehouse and import the component I use in SketchUp training. Here’s the description of the steps to optimize a correctly modeled SketchUp component : And I am pretty sure this article has convinced you of their interest.īut their clear benefits can be greatly reduced when these components are poorly designed, which is more the rule rather than the exception in SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse.įortunately, it is possible to fix and optimize existing components to make them quickly and easily reusable for your projects. In my article Doing MUCH MORE with SketchUp components, I introduced you to the various(and numerous) uses of the components in SketchUp.
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