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on your model from the upper “in model” section and drag it to the lower section. ● Release the mouse button. ● Your model will now become one of the components in the “Model Component Library”. In the images given below, you’ll see us creating a smiley and inserting it as a component in the “Shapes” category of the Components’ resources. Here’s an image of a Smiley we created. Select the smiley and use the keyboard shortcut “G” to activate the “Create Component” window. Fill in the details as Name: Smiley Ball, Description: Two eyes and a smile on a yellow ball, etc. We now click on Create. Now when we access the “Components” dialog box from the “Windows” menu, we find that our smiley is present in the “In Models” inventory of components Use the drop down menu in the lower half of the window to reveal the “Shapes” components. Click and drag the smiley from the upper half of the window (in model) to the lower half (shapes). The smiley will now be visible as one of the shapes and be reusable whenever we open SketchUp, in any other model we please. Conclusion With this chapter, you now pretty much know how to make a lot of basic (and some complex) models. In the next one, we’ll guide you through the motions of creating your first “real” model.
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