Learn how to use and create dynamic components in SketchUp Pro: from fences that automatically add pickets as you scale to cabinets with animated drawers.
Overview
Syllabus
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
Taught by
Scott Onstott