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0:00what's up guys justin here with the
0:03sketchup essentials.com back with
0:04another sketchup dynamic components
0:06tutorial for you so last week we kicked
0:09off a series on dynamic components and i
0:10talked through the basics so in today's
0:12video we're going to create a practical
0:14example by creating a dynamic shelf in
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0:48course now let's go ahead and just jump
0:49into it all right so what we want to do
0:51in this situation let's create something
0:52simple like a shelf and so if you think
0:55about a shelf basically it's made up of
0:57a couple different components right it's
0:59made up of a couple sides as well as a
1:02top and then however many shelves you
1:05have
1:06down below there may be some trim pieces
1:07and stuff but we're going to keep this
1:09really simple for right now we may add a
1:10back as well but what we want to do is
1:13we want to start by modeling those out
1:15and i'm just going to create a very
1:16simple shelf so maybe something that's
1:19like 24 inches long
1:21and we'll say that it's going to be
1:23we'll call it four feet high
1:26so i'm just drawing a rectangle that's
1:28going to make up a side for right now
1:30then i'm just going to push pull this
1:31and we're going to say this is maybe
1:33like .75 so three quarters of an inch
1:36thick
1:39and so that's going to act as our side
1:40for our shelf right so the first thing
1:42we're going to do is we're going to
1:43select this whole thing right click and
1:45we're going to make that a component and
1:47i'm going to go ahead and call this the
1:48left
1:50side
1:52right here
1:54and so now
1:55what we want to do is we want to add the
1:58shelves and the top
2:00and in this case we're going to make
2:02those be the same thing so let's start
2:04just by adding a shelf so let's say this
2:06shelf is going to be maybe like four
2:08inches off the ground
2:09let's start with it being maybe like
2:12we'll say 36 inches wide for right now
2:15so i'm just going to draw a rectangle
2:17that's going to be the size that we want
2:19all right so we'll just delete out this
2:20extra line we'll push pull this up
2:23maybe 0.75 again and then we'll just
2:25make this a component and we're just
2:27going to call this
2:28shelf
2:30i'm going to hit the enter key and so
2:32then we can use the move tool in copy
2:33mode to create a couple different copies
2:35of this so for me right now i'm going to
2:37make a copy it goes up to the top then
2:40type in
2:41forward slash and a 3
2:43so that now we have 4 copies total so i
2:46just use the move tool in copy mode in
2:48order to do that and then let's go ahead
2:50and let's take this side piece
2:52and let's use the move tool and copy
2:54mode to copy this over and one thing i'm
2:56going to do because i don't want two
2:58left side pieces remember i labeled
3:00these left side i'm going to go ahead
3:05and i'm going to make this unique i'm
3:07going to call this one right
3:09side so now we have one two three four
3:13five six components in our model well we
3:15want to take all of those and we want to
3:17combine them into a single component so
3:20i'm just going to right click in here
3:21i'm going to click on make component and
3:23we'll call this
3:25shelving unit
3:27and i'm going to hit the enter key so
3:28now this is a component that can
3:31contains all of those parts and pieces
3:33well now what we want to do is we want
3:34to right click in here and we want to go
3:36down to the dynamic components
3:38functionality and we want to edit the
3:40component attributes so when we do this
3:43remember that nested components inside
3:45of an object show up down below
3:48right here so notice how we've got our
3:50four shelves we've got our left side and
3:53our right side and so if i was to double
3:55click in here and just click on this
3:57notice how i would see just the right
3:59side right here but now what we need to
4:02do is we need to adjust these so that
4:04our shelving width adjusts based on a
4:07width that our user gives us and in this
4:09case we're just going to use drop downs
4:12so the first thing we need to do is we
4:14need to provide the user a drop down
4:16where they can enter the value and so to
4:18do that we're going to go into the
4:19attribute name and we're just going to
4:21type in a custom name so in this case
4:23i'm going to type in a value of width
4:26right here
4:27and so width is going to be the value
4:29that our user is going to give us for
4:30the width of our cabinet so in this case
4:33what we want to do is we don't want to
4:35set this as a value instead we want to
4:37click on this button right here for
4:38details and we want to set this so that
4:41our users can select options from a list
4:44so we're just going to click on this
4:45button right here
4:47and then we just want to give them some
4:48options so in this case let's give an
4:51option for 18
4:52inches
4:54we'll add an option for
4:5624 inches
4:58we'll add a 36 inches
5:02and we'll add a 48 inches
5:05so now we have four options that they
5:08can select from a list and we're going
5:10to click on apply well now if they were
5:12to right click in here in our dynamic
5:13components and click on component
5:15options notice how they're going to have
5:17a drop down with these options in here
5:20but
5:21notice how in addition our options
5:23aren't doing anything right now so we
5:25have the option where they can give us
5:27the information that we need now what we
5:29want to do is we want to set up the math
5:31functions inside of here that are going
5:33to make our shelf adjust
5:35and so what we want to do is we want to
5:37set the width of our shelving pieces to
5:40the value that our user selects so in
5:43this case we're just going to click on
5:45the drop down for shelf
5:46and we're just going to
5:49add an attribute for
5:51length on the x-axis so len x
5:55so if we do this
5:56what that's going to do is that's going
5:57to set the length of our object along
6:00that x-axis and so instead of having a
6:04hard type value in here what we want to
6:06do is we want to link this value
6:09to this value and we can do that by
6:11doing equals and then
6:14clicking
6:15on this cell right here notice what this
6:17does is this links back to this value
6:20with a variable so instead of this being
6:22a hard type number it's going to adjust
6:25based on what's typed in here so if i
6:27hit the enter key now
6:29notice how all of the shelves are
6:32adjusting
6:33to match that width that we had set so
6:36if we go into our dynamic components and
6:38click on component options notice how
6:40now the width is going to equal
6:43whatever we have
6:45in here from a width standpoint
6:47right so notice how those shelf pieces
6:49are getting wider or narrower based on
6:51what's selected however
6:54now we need to come in here and we need
6:55to set this up so that this piece right
6:58here adjusts along with this because
7:00it's in the wrong position
7:02when we adjust our width and so this is
7:04part of why i made this a unique
7:06component what we want to do and i do
7:08want to know because these are all
7:10instances of the same component these
7:12shelf objects if i was to double click
7:14in here notice how all of them got this
7:16equal shelving unit width applied to it
7:19that's why this happened to all of them
7:21and not just one if these weren't copies
7:23of the same component then you would
7:25have to come in here and you'd have to
7:26do that over and over again but what we
7:28want to do now is we want to adjust our
7:30right side so that it aligns with our
7:34shelving whenever it adjusts and so the
7:36way that we can do that is we can come
7:38in here and we can add
7:40a position attribute the position
7:43attribute is going to select the
7:45location of this object along the left
7:47the x y or z axis well in this case we
7:50want the x axis right here
7:53and so
7:55now we've set this so that our x-axis
7:58location has a value in it but we want
8:01to do the same thing we did before where
8:03we want to do an equals we want to click
8:05on the width right here then i'm going
8:07to hit the enter key well now when we
8:10adjust this
8:11notice how the location on the x-axis
8:15is adjusting
8:16based on the location or the width of
8:19our shelf so now this is moving along
8:22with this but you may notice we've got a
8:24little bit of an issue because this is
8:26only moving
8:27this width which is basically the width
8:29of this entire shelf well the problem is
8:32this also has some thickness and so what
8:35that means is that means that this needs
8:37to move over an additional three
8:39quarters of an inch
8:40to be aligned with the end of our shelf
8:43so in order to do that we're just going
8:44to go back into our right side and we're
8:46just going to add
8:48plus 0.75
8:50and hit the enter key well now what this
8:53is going to do is whenever we select a
8:55width this is going to move the object
8:57that width plus an additional three
9:00quarters of an inch so now when i do
9:02this notice how the side of our shelf
9:06is adjusting along with the width of our
9:08shelf we can use this in order to really
9:10quickly adjust the width of our shelving
9:12unit and so now one other thing is
9:15remember how we talked about we might
9:16want a back on this shelf well we didn't
9:19initially have a back on the shelf but
9:22what we can do is we can add
9:24another component in here that can be
9:26the width of our shelf so all i'm going
9:29to do is i'm just going to come in here
9:31and notice i've double clicked in here
9:32and these are still individual
9:34components well i just want to draw
9:37on the back of this
9:39a shelf or a back and i just want to
9:41give it a thickness of 0.75
9:45and then
9:46i'm going to triple click on it i'm
9:47going to right click and i'm going to
9:48make it a component and we're going to
9:50call this the back
9:52so now if i click on create
9:54we have a back
9:56in here
9:57as well
9:58and so one other thing we need to do
9:59though is we need to make sure that we
10:01set the back up so that it adjusts along
10:04with the rest of our object
10:06so all we need to do with our back is
10:08just do the same thing where we set our
10:10length on the x-axis
10:12to
10:14equals
10:15width
10:17and hit the enter key
10:18now
10:20that back piece
10:21is going to adjust
10:23based on the width that we give this
10:25object
10:26and so now that we know how to do this
10:27there's a lot of interesting things we
10:29could do here like for example we've got
10:32this setup where we can set the width of
10:34our shelf well there's nothing saying we
10:36can't also set the depth
10:39of our shelf
10:40so the depth we want to make another
10:42user drop down
10:44right so in this case let's say that we
10:46give options for 12 inches
10:5118 inches
10:53and 24 inches
10:55we're going to click the apply button
10:57right here now notice how we have a drop
10:59down that allows us to set those three
11:01values well then all we have to do is
11:04just set these objects so that they have
11:06a length on the y instead of the x of
11:09that value so we would just come into
11:11our shelf and we would set our length y
11:14and we would say
11:15equals
11:17our depth
11:19right here
11:22we need to do the same thing with our
11:24right side shelf
11:26so
11:26length y
11:30equals
11:31our depth
11:33and
11:34we need to set our left side shelf so
11:37that it does the length y so we're going
11:39to do an equals oops
11:42depth
11:43right here so notice how all of those
11:45are adjusting all we have to do now is
11:47set the back of the object so that it
11:50does the same thing that we did with our
11:51width right it just needs to move along
11:53with this so for our back all we want to
11:56do is we want to adjust our position on
11:58the y axis so we're going to click right
12:00here and then we're just going to do an
12:02equals
12:04and we're going to set
12:06our depth to 12.
12:09hit the enter key so now if we adjust
12:11our depth
12:13notice how this is going to move along
12:15with our object so now we've got a shelf
12:17where we can come in here and we can
12:18adjust the width
12:20and we can adjust the depth really
12:22quickly one other thing to note is i did
12:23notice that we've got a little bit of a
12:25gap here that's because our width isn't
12:28incorporating the side pieces on the
12:29back so all you would do is you would
12:31just say plus
12:330.75
12:34times 2 for your length and then hit the
12:36enter key so that's just adding in the
12:39width of these panels so one and then
12:42the other one right here so now your
12:44dynamic shelf is something that you can
12:46adjust really quickly inside of sketchup
12:50all right so that's for me in this video
12:51leave a comment below let me know what
12:52kind of dynamic components you'd like to
12:54learn to create in the future if you are
12:56interested in going more in depth in
12:58sketchup make sure you check out my
12:59course at sketchup essentials dot com
13:01slash course i'd love to help you learn
13:03sketchup more in depth but as always
13:06thank you so much for taking the time to
13:07watch this i really appreciate it and i
13:09will catch you in the next video thanks
13:11guys

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