Gathering Intelligence About Components

Gathering intelligence about components

SketchUp provides a few tools that enable you to find important details about components:

• The Entity Info window is the most basic. To open it, context-click a component and select Entity Info. Or select a component and then open the Entity Info dialog box in the Default Tray. If your entity is indeed a component, you see Component in the upper left and how many of instances of the selected component appear in your model.
• In the Components panel, you see the component's name, thumbnail, and description at the top. Click the Statistics tab, and you see a report of how many elements, such as faces, edges, construction lines, appear within the component. Select All Geometry from the drop-down list to see statistics for all geometry in the component or group. Alternatively, select Components from the drop-down list to see statistics for all components in the component. Finally, click Expand to see components and groups nested within the currently selected component or group.