Changing a Single Component Instance
Changing a single component instance
Say you want to edit only one instance of a component. For example, perhaps you want to model two or more picket styles so that you can experiment with the options. Follow these steps to edit one instance but leave the other component instances as they are:
- Select the component instance that you want to edit.
Context-click the selected instance and choose Make Unique, as shown in the figure. If you have the Entity Info panel open, you see that SketchUp changes the Definition by adding #1, or something similar. By making the instance unique, you're basically creating a new component based on your original.
- Open the context for the unique component. To open the context, you can double-click the component. Or select it, context-click the selection, and choose Edit Component.
Use the SketchUp drawing tools to make changes to the component. In this case, we made a slight change by selecting the edges on each side of the picket and moving them inward 5/16 inch. This made the picket width slightly narrower.
- Click outside the component context when you're done editing. In the figure, you can see that one picket is slightly narrower than the others.
