Frequent question: How do I unlink a component in SketchUp?

How do you ungroup components in SketchUp?

If you no longer need a group, Ungrouping in SketchUp is easy, too. It’s basically the reverse of the grouping process. Select the group then choose Edit > Ungroup from the menu bar. You can also context-click your selection then pick Ungroup from the menu to make everything inside the group into a separate entity.

How do you separate components in SketchUp?

Open the Component for editing, cut the geometry as before. Select the rest of the geometry and make a new component. Then use Edit>Paste in place and make a component of it.

How do I edit components separately in SketchUp?

Changing a single component instance

  1. Select the component instance that you want to edit.
  2. Context-click the selected instance and choose Make Unique, as shown in the figure. …
  3. Open the context for the unique component. …
  4. Use the SketchUp drawing tools to make changes to the component.
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How do you make a component not unique in SketchUp?

Re: component > make not unique



Right-click one of the groups and turn it into a component. Then in the component browser, save that component as an external file to your desktop. Now r-click and turn all the other groups into components…just let them be named the default group#2, group#3 etc.

How do I ungroup a component in SketchUp for free?

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 you edit a single component in SketchUp?

Changing a single component instance

  1. Select the component instance that you want to edit.
  2. Context-click the selected instance and choose Make Unique, as shown in the figure. …
  3. Open the context for the unique component. …
  4. Use the SketchUp drawing tools to make changes to the component.

What is the difference between component and group in SketchUp?

Groups are used for sets of objects that you will never duplicate or make copies of. Components are used for sets of objects that you will be duplicating or using multiple times in the model.

How do I count components in SketchUp?

The closest polygon estimate you can get with a vanilla version of SketchUp is a “Faces” count. Go to Window/Model Info and select the “Show nested components” check box. Both the “Edges” and “Faces” numbers should give you a good idea of how many polygons you’re dealing with.

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Can you replace components in SketchUp?

Select the components in the model or right click on the component’s thumbnail in the Components panel and choose Select Instances. Then right click on the new component in the Components panel and choose Replace selected.

How do you select similar components in SketchUp?

Right click on the thumbnail for the component and choose select Instances. Thanks Dave! If it is not a component and only a group SketchUp will still tell you how many instances of that group you have.

Follow these steps:

  1. Open the model into which you want to import a SketchUp file.
  2. Select File > Import.
  3. In the Open dialog box that appears, navigate to the SketchUp file. …
  4. Select the SketchUp file, and click Open. …
  5. Click in the drawing area to place the component in your model.

How do you make a component not a component in SketchUp?

How do I unlink or ungroup a component? Thanks! Right-click > Make Unique will keep it as a Component. Right-click > Explode will not.

How do you change the color of a component in SketchUp?

When you’re ready to edit a material, follow these steps:

  1. On the Textures Palette tab (the brick icon), open your Colors In Model collection.
  2. Select the material you want to edit.
  3. From the Color drop-down list, select Edit. …
  4. On the Edit Material panel that appears, as shown in the figure, choose your desired edits.
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