#Sketchup make components unique how to#
#Sketchup make components unique code#

Sketchup 2021.v21.0.391 64Bit Windows 10 Home v20H2Īny suggestions / help greatly appreciated. In this video, learn the basics of creating dynamic components in SketchUp Well talk about what dynamic components are, how to use them to adjust lengths. I have tried multiple different ways of creating this component and it still fights back, anyone have any ideas or see what I am doing wrong? Since all the geometry for both boxes is within the same component wrapper, you only have one component and it being the only one in the model is already unique. When I copy the X hierarchical component from the source model and Paste In Place into the destination model, SketchUp creates a new definition named Screw NAS1218-61 in the destination and associates the instances of the screws in X with that unique 1 definition. When parts of a DC have scaling behaviours programmed into them that makes them scale differently to the whole (like maintaining a frame width in a door or window) Sketchup needs to create a new component definition to.

Also whenever I drag one of the sub components in from the components browser it too becomes unique! So you made a component, then opened the component for editing and copied the geometry to make what appears to be a second box. Dynamic Components (DCs) is an add-on that works within the framework of Sketchup’s current component definitions. I have tried loading sketchup with this extension disabled and/or blocked with no change. I only have one non default extension installed su_bezier for drawing bezier curves. You can tell that if you open the component for editing and select all of the faces in the top one. From the output I am getting the extension in question is the Dynamic Component extension itself. You’ve made the top level unique but not the component inside so painting the faces in one will show in the other.

#Sketchup make components unique code#

In the thread in question this code came from, an extension was causing the problem, removing the extension solved the problem. Choose Make Unique to break its relationship to the others. Unless defined?(ene_original_make_unique)Īlias_method :ene_original_make_unique, :make_uniqueĬ:/users/madz/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2021/sketchup/plugins/su_dynamiccomponents/ruby/dcclass_v1.rbe:5263:in make_unique_if_needed' c:/users/madz/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2021/sketchup/plugins/su_dynamiccomponents/ruby/dcclass_v1.rbe:466:in redraw’Ĭ:/users/madz/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2021/sketchup/plugins/su_dynamiccomponents/ruby/dcclass_v1.rbe:2436:in push_attribute' c:/users/madz/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2021/sketchup/plugins/su_dynamiccomponents/ruby/dcclass_v1.rbe:266:in block in show_dialog’ Right click on the component without opening it for editing. In a previous thread (on a similar problem from a while ago) that I have come across, I have seen and tried some Ruby code from (below) that gives an idea of when the component, and by what, is being made unique. I have a component that contains 2 entities. The same also happens if I add an equation to the x position (this is before adding the LenX attribute). I’m having trouble making a part of a component a unique entity. As soon as I add LenX the component becomes unique. When I try to add in the attributes to the smaller upper window x,y,z, these add fine to the window without making the sub component unique. I have decided to add in glass to the windows just as a flat plane and then have this resize as required based on the sizes of the frame. The upper smaller windows are identical with the on click to tilt at their bottom edge but in the same direction.

The larger lower windows are two separate unique components as I want these to swing on click in opposite directions. The current version of the window as it stands is made up from four sub components - main window frame, lower larger window x 2, smaller upper window. Is there a way already to make unique cuts to components that copy the original component? Thanks.I am trying to create a dynamic window component that has various user settable attributes such as frame thickness, window height etc.with overall size settable via the scale tool. I wouldn’t want this tool to clutter up SketchUp’s core tools, but I think this would be a useful extension. The tool could use a section plane, or other boolean modifiers to subtract shapes from the “unique cut” component. Making cuts on components (like lumber, plywood, headers, pipes, etc.) is extremely common, yet I don’t know how to make unique cuts copy the original component. If you edit the profile or something on one, then all the cut baseboards would change. I think it’d be easier to have a “make unique cut” option, so each unique component just has a unique cut. But I’d have to modify each unique component to edit the profile or something even though they’re all from the same shape. In SketchUp, I’d have to use unique components to model that. For example, say all the baseboards in a house are the same shape, but each have unique cuts. I think it would be helpful if we could give components unique cuts.