Learn how to utilize dynamic components in SketchUp to place fixtures and customize designs. This in-depth guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to import components, adjust sizes, and manipulate colors to bring your kitchen model to life.
Key Insights
- Dynamic Components in SketchUp are a versatile tool that allows for the customization of models without predefined dimensions. With this feature, users can resize and adjust fixtures such as cabinets to fit their specific model requirements.
- The Component Options tool in SketchUp facilitates the customization of dynamic components, enabling users to measure and adjust the size of imported fixtures effortlessly. This tool can also be used to manipulate colors, transforming the appearance of models and enhancing their visual appeal.
- The 3D Warehouse in SketchUp is a resourceful platform to find and download various components for models, including cabinets of different types and sizes. The warehouse features a collection by SketchUp marked with a check, indicating quality and reliability.
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Let's continue to place fixtures in our model. Let's go to the 3D warehouse and let's search DC cabinets and then go to collections and see this collection by SketchUp with the check mark.
DC stands for dynamic components. And we will look at some dynamic components right now. And as I scroll down, you will see that none of these cabinets show any sort of dimensions or specific sizes.
That is because they have multiple sizes built in to dynamic components. Let's first find base cabinet, one door, right hinge. You may need to hover over it to read the full name.
Base cabinet, one door, hinged right. This one right here. And let's click download and load this directly into our SketchUp model.
Let's place this file right in space, right in the middle of our kitchen. And then we want to place this cabinet right here in the corner. But first, let's open up the component options.
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Right click dynamic components and do component options. And this will pop up right here. And then let's go do, let's go right click on our toolbar and let's select dynamic components.
You should have a thing like this that might be floating in space. Let's drag this into our toolbar. So this is our options, component options.
And these show how you can create custom components and this to interact the behavior of a dynamic component. So as you can see here, when I have this selected, this shows what this cabinet is. It's a 24 inch sink base cabinet.
This is not the furniture that I want to do. I don't want a sink base. So let's go back to my dynamic components and delete this and go back to my 3D SketchUp warehouse.
And let's do not base sink. Let's find base cabinet one door right here. Base cabinet one door left hinge, one door right hinge.
This is the correct one that I want to import. All right. I'll place it in the center of my kitchen.
Let me go to my tape measure tool and let's measure how wide this cabinet needs to be. One foot six or 18 inches. So with this selected, I'll go to my component options and I'll change this to 18 and click apply.
As you can see, this cabinet automatically changed to the appropriate dimensions. I'll orbit down to the bottom and I'll move my cabinet, click on this corner to this corner right here. Again, I'll orbit up to the top of my kitchen so I can see everything.
And we'll continue to place additional cabinets. Dynamic components are a great way to allow you to have flexibility with your SketchUp models. They can show movement with doors opening and closing, have different sizes or even different colors and appearances.
Keep an eye out for the small green icon next to a component. This symbolizes that this component is a dynamic component and has component options. I will leave my component options window open, move it to the side over here as I'm placing components into this kitchen.
Let's go back to our 3D warehouse and let's download base cabinet sink with two doors. With two doors, one false drawer, no. Base ADA sink, two doors, no.
Basic cabinet with two doors, right here. And load this directly into our model. We'll place this right here.
Again, I'll go to my tape measure tool and I will see how wide this cabinet needs to be. It needs to be three feet or 36 inches. So I would change this to 36 and hit apply.
And then I will orbit down to the underside of my model. Again, I don't have my floor open so I can see this. I'll place this right there.
Again, I'll orbit to the top and I'll place this cabinet to the next of the range. This cabinet is gonna be base cabinet, one door left. We'll go back to my 3D warehouse and find base cabinet, one door left hinge.
Download this into our model. Place it in the center. Go to tape measure.
This is one foot six inches or 18 inches. I'll change my component options to 18. Hit apply.
Orbit down to the underside of my model and move this corner to this corner. And now let's move over to the other side of the kitchen and do these two cabinets. So again, I'll go back to my 3D warehouse and I'll search for base cabinet, two doors, two drawers.
Base cabinet, two doors and two drawers. I'll download this into my model. I'll place it in the middle.
I'll hover over till I have the rotate tool live and I'll rotate it 90 degrees till it snaps to the green axes. And then I'll orbit underneath my model and I will place it right in the corner right here. I will measure this dimension right here.
I'll actually measure it from the front because we're seeing the trim for the window. So from the top right here is three feet. So I'll change this to 36 inches.
Hit apply. And then we wanted to use the same cabinet to this one. So what I will do is I will copy and use my plus in this corner and copy to the side right here and then move this corner to this corner.
And then I will use my tape measure to measure this dimension, which is two foot three inches, which is 27 inches. So I would adjust this to be 27 and hit apply. And now we have all of our cabinets in here.
When you bring in these components, such as some of these doors and door hinges, door handles and these components, it automatically comes in this muted yellow color. If I select that color, you can see that it is color B04. You can actually use the eyedropper tool and modify what color you want this to look like.
I don't like this yellow color, so I'll just modify this and bring down the saturation all the way to zero and the black all the way to 100, so it's white. So everywhere you see that color, it becomes white. It is not the default color.
This cabinet that we brought in from VDCI, that is the default color. We now have all of our cabinets into our kitchen. However, we have one final cabinet over here.
We wanna put in a tall cabinet, two doors. So let's open our 3D warehouse and let's scroll down till we find tall cabinet open. And let's download this into our SketchUp model.
Place it here in the middle. And as you can see, that as we had that material that we modified the color, it automatically adjusted. So let's rotate this 90 degrees till it snaps to the green axes and orbit down to where underneath our model.
Let's move this to this corner. And now let's measure to see how wide we need to make this. Three foot, six inches, which is 42 inches.
We'll open up our component options. Let's change our width to 42 inches and hit apply. We can close out of our component options now.
We have now made and brought in all of our cabinets for our kitchen. And then in the next video, we will add a countertop, a range, a sink and our refrigerator. I will see you in the next video.
Thank you.
