May 2009
Beginner
602 pages
21h 56m
English
Content preview from Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual
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Deleting Components
Deleting a component is completely different from exploding a component, as described in the previous section. Though exploding a component sounds somewhat violent, deleting a component has more serious consequences. When you delete a component, you remove the component from the list of components in the Components window, and you remove all the instances of that component from your drawing. Suppose you have a picket fence that's made up of 12 fence board components. If you delete the fence board component from the Components window, all 12 fence boards disappear, too. To delete a component, open the Components window (Window → Component). Then right-click the component you want to delete, and choose Delete from the shortcut menu, as shown in Figure 5-28. A message appears that says: "Warning! All instances will be deleted." Click OK, and the component disappears from the Components window, and all the instances of the component in your model disappear, too. If that's what you wanted—great. If not, you can undo the deletion with Ctrl+Z (⌘-Z), and everything is back to the way it was.
Figure 5-27. You can turn a component back into its individual parts by right-clicking the component and then choosing Explode from the shortcut menu.
Purging Components
SketchUp keeps track of the components you add to your document. Even after you delete the component from the drawing ...
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