Your question: How do I isolate a component in SketchUp?

Can you isolate in SketchUp?

Isolate a group or component – SketchUp Tutorial



If another group is nearby, and it seems to be in the way, it’s helpful to isolate the group so that it temporarily is the only geometry that we can see. To do that, we’ll go to View, Component Edit, Hide Rest of Model.

How do you separate components in SketchUp?

Make Unique: Sometimes you want to make changes to only one or a few of the instances of a component in your model. In this case, select the instance(s) you want to edit, right-click one of them, and choose Make Unique from the context menu. This option turns the instances you selected into a separate component.

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.

Can you explode a model in SketchUp?

To break up the object, click to select it and choose Edit > Group > Explode or Edit > Component > Explode.

How do you break the connection between two copies of a component?

It also looks like, once you’ve created a linked copy (e.g. by accident) that there is no way to break the connection to the original component. However you can copy/paste-new the clone, and then delete the clone, which allows you to keep any changes you might have made to it.