SketchUp Pro: Dynamic Components

Learn how to use and create dynamic components in SketchUp Pro: from fences that automatically add pickets as you scale to cabinets with animated drawers.

Introduction

• Work with dynamic components in SketchUp Pro
• Exercise files
• What you should know
• Re-install the Dynamic Components extension
• Course viewing strategy

1. Utilize Existing Dynamic Components

• Access dynamic components
• Interact with dynamic components
• Scale dynamic components
• Understand the methods of configuring dynamic components

2. Work with Dynamic Components Locally

• Potential problem with imported working models
• Save and update dynamic component definitions locally
• Access local dynamic component libraries

3. Work with Dynamic Components in the Cloud

• Upload a dynamic component to the 3D Warehouse
• Add models and collections to your account

4. Fence Component That Adds Pickets as You Scale

• Create parts of a fence post as components
• Create the top and bottom rails and the picket component
• Define the overall component container
• Add attributes and formulas to the post and its cap
• Continue adding formulas to the top and bottom rails
• Add formulas to the picket
• Define the copy behavior for the pickets
• Build the user interface

5. Bookcase with Configurable Size, Shelving, and Materials

• Add position and size attributes
• Add a user interface for custom shelf attributes
• Implement logic to copy shelves
• Create and nest a swatch component
• Cycle materials by clicking on a component
• Correct texture coordinates in components

6. Base Cabinet with Animated Drawer and Door

• Nest component parts
• Animate the drawer sliding and door rotation
• Implement the Hidden and OnClick behaviors

7. Cabinet with Multiple Preconfigured Sizes

• Duplicate and make unique components
• Nest various models in one component
• Control model visibility with a formula
• Implement pricing for each model
• Debug errors
• Disable scale and add descriptions

8. Furniture with Projected Textures and Hideable Parts

• Texture mapping a face with a projected texture
• Add more projected texture coordinates
• Remove the material used for texture mapping
• Implement material swapping and dealing with swatches

9. Component with Dynamically Scaled Materials

• Understand how materials typically stretch
• Create materials for each intended size
• Design the user interface
• Add formulas to control the number of panels and size
• Concatenate a material name with length to swap materials
• Add descriptions and save the project

Conclusion

• Next steps