Making groups in Sketchup
New document in Sketchup
Making groups in Sketchup Two-roomed house in Sketchup
Making groups in Sketchup Use the select tool to select everything
Making groups in Sketchup Everything has been selected
Making groups in Sketchup Use the Make Group tool
Making groups in Sketchup The two-roomed house is now a group
Making groups in Sketchup We can copy a group as a whole and...
Making groups in Sketchup... and use the paste tool to
Making groups in Sketchup... paste a group as a whole, and...
Making groups in Sketchup... use the paste tool again...
Making groups in Sketchup... to paste the group again...
Groups of groups
Making groups in Sketchup If we select use the select tool to...
Making groups in Sketchup... to select all the instances of the group, we can...
Making groups in Sketchup... we can incorporate them all into...
Making groups in Sketchup... into a higher-level group
Making groups in Sketchup We can then copy this higher-level group, and...
Making groups in Sketchup and use the paste tool to...
Making groups in Sketchup... to make another instance of the higher-level group and...
Making groups in Sketchup... and make yet another instance
Making groups in Sketchup If we use to select tool to...
Making groups in Sketchup... select all instances of this higher-level group,...
Making groups in Sketchup... we can make them all into a
Making groups in Sketchup... yet higher-level group
Making groups in Sketchup We can then use the copy tool and...
Making groups in Sketchup... the paste tool to
Making groups in Sketchup... make yet another instance
Decomposing groups
Decomposing groups in Sketchup A group of groups of groups
Decomposing groups in Sketchup Holding down the ctrl key when selecting a group produces a menu Use the Explode option to...
Decomposing groups in Sketchup... to decompose the group into its constituent members
Decomposing groups in Sketchup If we use the select tool to choose one constituent member,...
Decomposing groups in Sketchup... we could delete the selected constituent member and...
Decomposing groups in Sketchup... and select the remaining constituent members and...
Decomposing groups in Sketchup... and use the Make Group tool to...
Decomposing groups in Sketchup... to make a new group from them
Exercise Tackle Exercise 24