You asked: How do I select similar in SketchUp?

Select Instances: Perhaps you have 15 instances (copies) of the same component in your model and you want to select them all. Just make sure that you’re viewing your In Model library, and then right-click the component (in the Components dialog box) of your desire. Choose Select Instances, and your work is done.

How do you select objects in SketchUp?

Here’s everything you need to know about selecting things in SketchUp:

1. Just click anything in your model to select it (while you’re using the Select tool, of course).
2. To select more than one thing, hold down the Shift key while you click all the things you want to select.

How do you select all faces with the same material?

You could also use Shift – G to Select Similar Material, which is also accessbile from the Select Menu in Edit Mode. This button will add the faces that have this material to the current selection, so make sure you have unselected everything else before clicking that button.

How do I remove an object in SketchUp?

To remove a single face, context-click the face and select Erase from the menu that appears. Delete selected geometry. To delete several edges and faces at once, use the Select tool to select all the geometry you want to erase, as shown in the following figure. Then context-click your selection and choose Erase.

How do you unlink objects in SketchUp?

If you no longer need a group, select the group entity and choose Edit > Ungroup from the menu bar. Or context-click the selection and choose Ungroup from the menu that appears. Everything in the group becomes a separate entity again.

How do I edit a component in SketchUp?

Editing all instances of a component



To open the context, you can double-click the component. Or select it, context-click the selection, and choose Edit Component, or simply hit Enter. Use the SketchUp drawing tools to edit your component.

How do you select everything in a layer in SketchUp?

Select an Object on the required Layer. Right-click and in the Context-Menu near the top is Select… Pop this out and there’ Select all on Same Layer… All active Objects on that Layer are Selected.