# Creating Components in Layout **URL:** \ **Category:** LayOut\ **Tags:** component, advice, sketchup-2016, layout, components\ **Created:** [August 3, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673 "2016-08-03T23:57:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![allusernametaken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@allusernametaken](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/allusernametaken)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/21 "2020-09-03T20:46:49Z")
I see your point. maybe we don’t need it. ---
**Author:** ![DaveR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/daver/32/7601_2.png) [@DaveR](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DaveR)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/22 "2020-09-03T20:53:22Z")
I think there is use for components in LayOut. Just that having them won’t prevent what you were thinking. ---
**Author:** ![bradmdg1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@bradmdg1](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bradmdg1)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/23 "2020-09-05T23:15:04Z")
I just read through 4 years of threads on the topic. So bummed that this is not yet a basic offering like it is in SU Pro, etc. ![Annotation 2020-09-05 161253](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/4/3/437471de5cb3125ffcf268c4c873f5503c116fd2.jpeg) Layout Components for my landscape design plans, with some way to count “how many” for quantity tracking, etc. would be so helpful! Any changes to one plant component, lighting component, etc., would propagate throughout the whole document. Please make this happen Trimble. ---
**Author:** ![Phizzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Phizzle](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Phizzle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/24 "2020-09-27T21:29:09Z")
Yes, what Brad says!!! -Phil ---
**Author:** ![Sonder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/sonder/32/27173_2.png) [@Sonder](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Sonder)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/25 "2020-09-27T22:33:50Z")
To me scrapbooks are the closest thing to components. What would be especially cool is updating a scrapbook element updates it everywhere in the drawing set. Then things like standardized notes or objects only need one location to edit. ---
**Author:** ![thuetink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@thuetink](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/thuetink)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/26 "2020-09-28T18:07:48Z")
There are so many examples where components would be THE answer in Layout. Why is this feature taking so long to be added?.. I can’t imagine it’s hard to develop, since it’s already in place in SketchUp for ages… ---
**Author:** ![MikeWayzovski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/mikewayzovski/32/98346_2.png) [@MikeWayzovski](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/MikeWayzovski)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/27 "2020-09-28T18:47:31Z")
One thing that doesn’t help is that each entity inserted from the scrapbooks is now an ‘Unique Reference’. With the possibility to change the reference of a Viewport that is copied to another SketchUp Model, this might have slipped through. In 2019, you could drop different images (and other insertable content) from the scrapbooks and relink it when it needed to change: all inserted ‘copies’ where then replaced (yes, the ‘reload’ option of SketchUp Components) Now, the reference list get’s pretty long… ![Schermafbeelding 2020-09-28 om 20.46.57](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/7/4/746c0641bbc439a2a40a14aea9e3a424e00f718d.png) ---
**Author:** ![gsharp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/gsharp/32/25083_2.png) [@gsharp](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/gsharp)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/28 "2020-10-01T11:32:57Z")
Amazes me too ! then again, LO has been amazingly out of step with SU right from the start ! ---
**Author:** ![JoeDrafter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/joedrafter/32/63597_2.png) [@JoeDrafter](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/JoeDrafter)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/29 "2020-10-12T12:46:09Z")
ive been asking this feature every year for at least the last 5 years! This and also respecting layers assignment from file to file or from the scrapbook. ---
**Author:** ![Beamer2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@Beamer2](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Beamer2)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/30 "2020-10-28T00:09:31Z")
> [@Sonder](#): > > What would be especially cool is if updating a Scrapbook element would then update it everywhere in the drawing set. Good idea Nick! That would be powerful! And, as with Components, it would then also be useful to be able to make specific Scrapbook elements “Unique”, so they don’t global update! ---
**Author:** ![ArayaCAD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/arayacad/32/146649_2.png) [@ArayaCAD](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ArayaCAD)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/31 "2020-12-19T06:44:43Z")
I think something like this should have been implimented long ago, I feel like whoever had the idea to have components in sketchup should have worked on implimenting it into layout at the same time, we need layout to be stronger than it is, (we being designers who rely on it) it’s taking forever to get anywhere with layout. Would love it if the layout team could get some more features released sooner and make the program even better. ---
**Author:** ![ArayaCAD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/arayacad/32/146649_2.png) [@ArayaCAD](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ArayaCAD)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/32 "2020-12-19T06:46:14Z")
How do you guys ignore stuff like this for so many years marc and what does stay tuned mean, like for months or years? I’m just so frustrated where I and others voice there opinion about how layout team gets things done at a snails pace and nobody answers back, where’s the accountability? It takes forever for anything good to happen with layout, years and years meanwhile you have 3rd party developers getting SO MUCH DONE IN 1 YEAR. I know it’s not easy to compare their workload with sketchup and layout and things are different but come on get something done already or atleast respond to the frustrated users because that’s half the problem, nobody from the team answers back with anything meaningful. ---
**Author:** ![DWARNER](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/dwarner/32/85007_2.png) [@DWARNER](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DWARNER)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/33 "2021-02-04T21:21:58Z")
Hi Mark, I’m looking for a way to link architectural detail numbers with the corresponding architectural tags that appear in smaller-scaled drawings. This is where a “component” operation could help. As architectural drawing sets come together, details get moved around, and thus their unique number (as it appears on a specific sheet) changes. If only the architectural tags that refer to this detail would change automatically too . . . Thanks, David ---
**Author:** ![gsharp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/gsharp/32/25083_2.png) [@gsharp](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/gsharp)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/34 "2021-02-06T00:54:50Z")
Agree… or at least a “Find and Replace” tool that searched all pages in a LO file… ---
**Author:** ![ArayaCAD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/arayacad/32/146649_2.png) [@ArayaCAD](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ArayaCAD)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/35 "2021-02-11T02:22:44Z")
Good idea gsharp! I sure hope you guys can get on this soon, would be so great if we didn’t have to wait another 4 entire years. That’s a long time… . . A really long time for a request like this. . ---
**Author:** ![janvin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/janvin/32/93987_2.png) [@janvin](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/janvin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 6:16am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/36 "2021-03-24T06:16:51Z")
Hi Nick, I’m not sure how you handle gridlines but that’s definitely one object/element I would hope when changes are applied to it, that it’s replicated on all floor plans. Perhaps, it’s handled another way perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![ArayaCAD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/arayacad/32/146649_2.png) [@ArayaCAD](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ArayaCAD)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/37 "2021-03-24T18:31:23Z")
That’s currently not an option I don’t beleive, atleast not to my knowledge. One trick I use for saving time on grid lines: I save my grid lines as a scrapbook item like nick, I also dimension my 1/4" grid line scrapbook object, dimensioning between each bubble. Now when I grab my grid line object from my scrapbook, as soon as I move the bubbles over the palces I want them for my drawings, the dimensions are snapped automatically and adjust with the movement, making it so I don’t have to dimension grid lines anymore. ---
**Author:** ![janvin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/janvin/32/93987_2.png) [@janvin](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/janvin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/38 "2021-03-24T18:53:17Z")
Thanks for the feedback / input - that’s currently how I have my gridlines as well and yes, I’m glad the dimensions are dynamic in that sense! ---
**Author:** ![ArayaCAD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/arayacad/32/146649_2.png) [@ArayaCAD](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ArayaCAD)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/39 "2021-03-24T18:56:17Z")
Sweet! Cool that you do that too. Here’s hoping for layout components, what a WORLD of a difference that would make in time savings. Would be even cooler if it could be prioritized or something like that by the trimble team… ---
**Author:** ![Sonder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/sonder/32/27173_2.png) [@Sonder](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Sonder)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673/40 "2021-04-25T17:44:59Z")
Sorry for the late response. I’ve been swamped. Grid bubbles and lines are saved as a scrapbook item. Depending on the size of the home, I have the grids placed on a layer that is multi-page so you only edit them once and they appear the same on each sheet. That’s why scene camera position is critical to match for all floor plans and roof plans, as well as any sections that are in the same position. With sections I also make sure to align them with the elevation files so I can simply copy and paste gridlines and elevations marks. It makes things very quick. [Previous page](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/creating-components-in-layout/28673.md?page=3)