Keep doing that until nothing is left as shown at right, or until only the factory installed libraries you think you will use are left. To do this select an entry under Favorites, click on the icon circled in red at right and choose ‘Remove from favorites’. In my case that means removing everything that came factory loaded. So, what I first do is remove anything I don’t want in there so that I can use it as my User’s Library, but called Favorites. Instead it has the Favorites category that comes with a lot of factory loaded stuff which I never use. Further, I would prefer it had a category (folder) called User’s Components or User’s Library. I would prefer it behaved more like the Windows File Explorer or the Mac’s Finder. The Components dialog box, in my opinion, is not well designed. Managing & Populating Your Favorites Components Library I can then edit or modify that model as any other. If I open C31Y S-Molding.skp with SketchUp as I would with a normal model I get the model below. For example, in my C:\Users\jpz\Dropbox\SketchUp Files\Components\Trim folder I have the moldings shown left. Once you have saved a component in your Components library you can always access it as any other SketchUp model (.skp file). SketchUp will store your component as a one-component SketchUp model in its own. My Components folder is further sub-divided into other folders as shown at left, and each of those may further be sub-divided, so you will have to navigate to the precise folder you wish to store your component. ![]() Simply right click on the desired component in the In-Model library and choose Save As. With the SketchUp Preferences File Locations set up as described in the section titled Your SketchUp File Locations, you can now save any of your components in the In-Model library to your Components folder. If you wish to share a component with the world simply right click on the component in the In-Model library and choose 3D Warehouse > Share Component. However, any component in the In-Model library can be save in a personal library, or uploaded to the 3D Warehouse. They are available to only you, the model’s owner and modeler. In-Model components are actually stored in your SketchUp model file. In the figure at right these folders are called CabWriter and CutList Bridge respectively. Similarly, if you have CutList Bridge installed you are required to set up a folder for all list back-ups this is done on the Lists tab of the Extended Entity Info in the To Select A Directory For Back-up Files: section. If you have the CabWriter extension installed you are required to set up a folder for all of your CabWriter defaults and other CabWriter related files this is done on the Project tab of CabWriter Settings in the User Default Files section. However, I have a Templates sub-folder that I keep a back-up of everything in the Templates folder that the SketchUp Preferences points to. The only exception is the last one called Templates which SketchUp will not let the user change. For each File Location type name in the SketchUp Preferences I have set up my preferences to point to a Master SketchUp Directory sub-folder of the same name. To let SketchUp know where you wish to store various files you have to set up your Window > Preferences Files page shown left. This is useful if I want to show any of my models to a client using my SketchUp mobile app. Notice in the Master SketchUp Directory all these files are stored in my Dropbox so that I can access them with any of my devices including my mobile phone. The image at right shows fifteen sub-folders of my Master SketchUp Directory. Within that folder I have a number of folders for storing different types of SketchUp files. Master SketchUp Directory = C:\Users\jpz\Dropbox\SketchUp Files\ ![]() I store all of my SketchUp related files in a folder called: One of the first things you should do when you load a new version of SketchUp is to set up the location you wish to store your SketchUp files. As a user you can make your own library and save components, or even save entire models in a library. SketchUp comes with sample models stored in the Components library. Component developed by the user and which are in the user’s model are stored in the In Model library. Location of Component FoldersĬomponents are stored in the Components libraries accessed by the Components dialog box. After reading this post and watching the video, you might also want to see a related blog called Creating a Library of Moldings & Trim. I am often asked “How do I create my own components library?”.
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