Using the Component Libraries
Google maintains a 3D warehouse of prebuilt models for you to download and use. There are dozens of such prebuilt models, and using them can save you plenty of time.Models with multiple parts are treated as a single unit called components in SketchUp, and SketchUp offers you a number of component collections in its 3D warehouse:
- Architecture
- Landscape
- Construction
- People
- Playground
- Transportation
Inside each collection are multiple subcategories. For example, you can see the subcategories for the Architecture category in Figure 1.19.
FIGURE 1.19 The Architecture subcategories.
Some subcategories are themselves divided into further subcategories—for example, the Furniture collection in the Architecture collection is divided into the collections you can see in Figure 1.20.
You can see actual models from the furniture collection in Figure 1.21.
And you can see a simple glass-topped table from the collection in Figure 1.22.
As you can see, there are dozens of models waiting for you to use them. We’ll get more in-depth with these in Lesson 6, “Creating Components and Groups.”
