What is a SketchUp component?
SketchUp components are groups of geometry (edges and faces) that anyone can make in SketchUp. They’re kind of like mini-models within your main model, and they can represent anything – furniture, plants, vehicles – anything. You can find pre-made components in the Components browser in SketchUp. You can also find them (lots of them) in the Google 3D Warehouse. What is a Dynamic Component? Dynamic Components are SketchUp components to which attributes have been assigned. Attributes can be simple pieces of extra information like Part Number, Cost and Weight. Attributes can also contain spatial relationships (like how two parts are positioned relative to each other), and behaviors (like animation and smart scaling). Some Dynamic Components are very simple (a pipe elbow with a part number attached), and some are very complex (a door whose trim doesn’t stretch when you scale it, which can be configured into thousands of different permutations, and which swings open and closed when you clic
