I see your point. maybe we don’t need it.
I think there is use for components in LayOut. Just that having them won’t prevent what you were thinking.
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. 
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.
Yes, what Brad says!!!
-Phil
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.
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…
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…
Amazes me too ! then again, LO has been amazingly out of step with SU right from the start !
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
Agree… or at least a “Find and Replace” tool that searched all pages in a LO file…
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. .
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?
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.
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!
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…
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.