Some of the most popular components on 3D Warehouse help save designers time by providing an object they want to include in their model. To help with that, the components you upload to 3D Warehouse should use their real-world measurements and dimensions. After all, in most models a 30 foot tall bathroom faucet wouldn’t quite work.

Can you imagine Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press, learning how to create 3D models in SketchUp? Hopefully, he’d like the way SketchUp advances his groundbreaking invention - especially the text that moves and (in some cases) updates as you work on your model.In SketchUp, you can add four types of text, each depicted in the following figure: