Mastering Groups and Components

By this point, we have already reviewed how important it is to use Groups and Components to separate geometry. I would say that one of the very worst things a SketchUp user can do when they create a 3D model is to ignore Groups while modeling. I have downloaded many models from 3D Warehouse only to find that they are monolithic blobs of geometry, nearly impossible to edit or manipulate due to all the geometry being merged. Using Groups to separate the “pieces” of your model is not an intermediate or advanced process, but simply how you should be doing things from the start.

Starting with Groups

Before diving into when and where to use Groups and Components, let’s touch on a single command that may help you organize every model you work on from this point forward: Make Group.

I know, you have used the Make Group command in the past and it’s not a “new” command, but I would like to suggest you think about...