Exploding a Component
Having created a component, can you de-create it? That is, can you “explode” the objects in the component so that they no longer make up a component?Yes, you can. Just follow these steps to create a component and then explode it back into its parts:
1. Click the Start Using SketchUp button and click the human figure that appears in the Engineering–Feet template to select it; press the Del key to delete it.
2. Select the Rectangle tool and draw a horizontal rectangle.
3. Select the Push/Pull tool in the toolbar, and then pull the rectangle up into a cube.
4. Select the Circle tool and draw a circle next to the cube.
5. Select the Push/Pull tool in the toolbar, and then pull the circle into a cylinder.
6. Select the Select tool, and then draw a selection rectangle around both the cube and the cylinder.
7. Select the Edit menu’s Make Component item. SketchUp displays a dialog box.
8. Enter Two Cubes Component in the Name box.
9. Enter Two cubes in the Description box.
10. Click the Create button. The dialog box disappears. A blue selection box surrounds your new component—you’ve created your component.
The next step is to explode it back into two separate cubes.
11. While your component is selected (has a blue box around it), right-click the component. A context menu appears.
12. Select Explode from the context menu. The blue selection box around the component disappears, and the two cubes are no longer one component.
To verify that the two cubes are separate, click them individually, noting that no blue box appears—instead, first one cube then the other is filled with blue dots, as happens when you select individual
objects.
Now you know how to create and “uncreate” components.
Thanks :
Steven Holzner,
SamsTeachYourself Google SketchUp 8 in 10 Minutes
