SketchUp Pro: Dynamic Components

Introduction

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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Next steps