Editing Components
You can also edit the various parts of a component in SketchUp.In this task, we’ll create a component from the same two objects we saw in the previous task—a cube and a cylinder.
Here’s how it works:
1. Right-click the Cube and Cylinder component we created in the previous task.
2. Select the Edit Component menu item. This will surround the component with a dotted box, as shown in Figure 6.8.
FIGURE 6.8 A component open for editing.
3. Select the Push/Pull tool in the toolbar.
4. Hover over the top surface of the rectangle for two seconds.
5. Click the top surface of the cylinder to pull the cube up to match the cylinder in height, as you see in Figure 6.9. This is sizing the cube by inference.
6. Select the Select tool in the toolbar.
7. Click any blank, nonselected region of the screen to stop editing the component. The dotted box around the component disappears.
FIGURE 6.9 An edited component.
That’s it—now you know how to edit the individual objects in a component.
Thanks :
Steven Holzner,
SamsTeachYourself Google SketchUp 8 in 10 Minutes
