There are also 5 additional tools in SketchUp Pro that make creating components more efficient than using the edit/intersect faces tool. Dynamic components can be used in SketchUp Make, but cannot be created in SketchUp Make. SketchUp Pro gives you the ability to design components that have parameters called dynamic components. SketchUp Pro comes with some added features and two more applications. The SketchUp Pro license permits its use in revenue generation while SketchUp Make does not. There are significant and important differences between the free (now called Make) and Pro versions of SketchUp. What is the difference between the free version and the Pro version? Again, see the Tools, Components & Dialog Boxes video, approximately 13 minutes in, for an explanation. Use a component as soon as primitives form a 3-D shape. The simple answer is there is never a need to use groups and I highly recommend you don’t. When should I use groups and when should I use components? Rather than send everyday users down that route, I have provided a simplified answer in my Tools, Components & Dialog Boxes video, approximately 13 minutes in. To really understand the answer to this question you need to understand 3-D mathematics, matrix algebra and SketchUp coding. What is the difference between groups and components? They are creatively called … drum roll please … 6 Rules for Modeling in SketchUp. I have developed 6 simple rules to guide beginners on how to do this. This, it turns out, is both good and bad. When a primitive touches another “unprotected” primitive they stick together and won’t separate. When you draw in SketchUp you use primitives (edges, faces and points). You are a victim of the sticky nature of SketchUp. I hope you find the SketchUp help you need! When I draw parts they get connected. For each of these questions I am going to point you to a tool, and if I don’t have a tool of my own I will point you to a set provided by the SketchUp community. And sometimes I point readers to a series of free or paid videos demonstrating how to do something. Sometimes the answer is a set of recommendations on how to use SketchUp. In some cases the tools are a free plugin to help avoid the problem altogether.
Over the years I have developed some tools to help students through these problems. Students new to SketchUp struggle with a set of problems that are very similar in nature and can be characterized by one of the following questions. I have been teaching SketchUp for over seven years, both live and online.
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