Dynamic Components Resources [wiki]

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Dynamic Components Resources

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Directory of Resource Lists

• User Guide: Sectional Outline

• Keyword Index

• Training Components

• Tutorials

• Books

• News & Blogs

• Tips & Tricks

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SketchUp User Guide - (Sectional Outline)

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Adding Premade Components and Dynamic Components

• Inserting Components

• Replacing Components

• Interacting with Dynamic Components

• Searching for Components

• Adjusting a Component’s Insertion Point

• Editing Components

• Organizing Component Collections

• Gathering Intelligence About Components

Developing Components and Dynamic Components

• Creating a Basic Component

  • Alignment Options (Always face camera, Cuts opening, Glue to, Shadows face sun)
  • Advanced Attributes (Price, Size, URL)

• Making a Dynamic Component

  • Befriending All the Axes
  • Adding Attributes
  • Defining Attribute Values
  • Testing a Dynamic Component

• Creating Common Types of Dynamic Components

  • Repeating a Sub-Component Within a Dynamic Component (1 Dimension)
  • Repeating a Sub-Component Within a Dynamic Component (2 Dimensions)
  • Making Components that Animate
  • Making Components that Copy
  • Constraining Attributes of a Dynamic Component
  • Creating a Dynamic Component that Snaps to a Specific Size
  • Implement Dynamic Pricing
  • Making Attribute Values End-User Configurable

• Dynamic Components User’s Guide

  • Referencing Dynamic Component Attributes, Functions, HTML Tags, and Operators
    • Dynamic Component Predefined Attributes
    • Dynamic Component Supported Functions
    • Dynamic Component Supported Operators
    • Dynamic Components Supported HTML Tags
    • Math Function Examples
    • SketchUp Function Examples
    • Text Function Examples
    • Trig Function Examples
    • Logical Function Examples
    • OnClick Function Examples
  • Preserving Textures in a Dynamic Component
  • Using Unique Textures in a Dynamic Component
  • Hiding the Scale Handles in a Dynamic Component

Classifying Objects

• Classifying Objects in the SketchUp Interface

  • External Resources on the web for BIM and IFC:
    • Building Smart website
    • Green Building XML (gbXML)
    • Onuma: BIMXML
    • Wikipedia: Industry Foundation Classes
    • ISO 16739:2013

• Generating an Attribute Report

• Importing, Exporting, and Deleting Classifications

• Creating an SKC file

  • External Resources on the web for XML / XSD:
    • Wikipedia: XML
    • WikiBooks: XML - Managing Data Exchange
    • W3Schools: XML Tutorial
    • W3C XML Standards Resources
    • MSDN XML Developer Center
    • MSDN XML Standards Reference
    • MSDN XML Schemas (XSD) Reference

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SketchUp Help Center: Pages tagged “Dynamic Components”

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Dynamic Components Keyword Index

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• 3D Warehouse
  • 3D Warehouse User Guide
  • Dynamic Component Training collection at the 3DW
  • Training Components, DC Resources Topic Thread

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A

• Adding Premade Components and Dynamic Components

• Adjusting a Component’s Insertion Point

• Always face camera

  • Creating a Basic Component
    • Choose alignment options

• Assembling, Dynamic Component - (3DW Training Component)

• Attribute

  • Attribute, Defining Values
  • Attribute Report, Generating

• Attributes

  • Adding
  • Advanced Attributes
  • Introduction - (3DW Training Component)
  • Predefined, for Dynamic Components

• Authoring, Component Options Dialog - (3DW Training Component)

• Axes, Befriending All

• Axes, Dynamic Component, Understanding - (3DW Training Component)

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B

• Books

  • Books, DC Resources Topic Thread
  • Books, SketchUp Learning Resources - (General SketchUp Related)

• BIM / IFC - External Resources on the web:

  • Building Smart website
  • Green Building XML (gbXML)
  • Onuma: BIMXML
  • Wikipedia: Industry Foundation Classes
  • ISO 16739:2013 Standard

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C

• Classifications

  • Classifying Objects
  • Schema [ see also XML and XSD ]
    • Importing, Exporting, and Deleting Classifications
    • SKC file, Creating

• Collections, Component, Organizing

• Component

  • Alignment Options
  • Always Face Camera
  • Advanced Attributes
  • Basic, Creating
  • Collections, Organizing
  • Cuts Opening, Cutting Plane
  • Dynamic, Making
  • FaceMe
  • Glue to, Gluing Plane
  • Insertion Point, Adjusting
  • Options Dialog, Authoring - (3DW Training Component)
  • Shadows face sun

• Components

  • Classifying, in the SketchUp Interface

  • Collections, Organizing

  • Developing, (Basic and Dynamic )

  • Dynamic, Common Types

    • Animating Components
    • Attribute Values, End-User Configurable
    • Attributes, Constraining
    • Copying, (Components that Make Copies of Sub-Compopnents)
    • Pricing, Dynamic
    • Repeating a Sub-Component Within a Dynamic Component (1 Dimension)
    • Repeating a Sub-Component Within a Dynamic Component (2 Dimensions)
    • Size, Snaps to (Specific Sizes)

  • Dynamic, Interacting with

  • Editing

  • Gathering Intelligence About

  • Inserting

  • Premade, Adding

  • Replacing

  • Searching for

  • Training, DC Resources Topic Thread

• Creating a Dynamic Component Plant - (3DW Training Component)

• Cuts Opening Components

  • Creating a Basic Component
    • Choose alignment options

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D

• Defining Attribute Values

• Directory, DC Resources Topic Thread

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E

• Embedding Textures in DCs - (3DW Training Component)

• Editing Components

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F

• Faceme Components

  • Creating a Basic Component
    • Choose alignment options

• Functions

  • Functions, Supported, for Dynamic Components
  • Examples:
    • Logical Function Examples
    • Math Function Examples
    • OnClick Function Examples
    • SketchUp Function Examples
    • Text Function Examples
    • Trig Function Examples

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G

• Generating an Attribute Report

• Glue to Components

  • Creating a Basic Component
    • Choose alignment options

• Gluing plane

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H

• Hiding, Scale Handles, in a Dynamic Component

• HTML Tags, Supported, for Dynamic Components

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I

• Index, Keywords, DC Resources Topic Thread

• Inserting Components

• Insertion Point, Component, Adjusting

• Interacting with Dynamic Components

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• Keyword Index, DC Resources Topic Thread

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N

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O

• Operators, Supported, for Dynamic Component

• Options Dialog, Authoring - (3DW Training Component)

• Organizing Component Collections

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P

• Plant, Creating a Dynamic Component - (3DW Training Component)

• Predefined Attributes, for Dynamic Components

• Premade Components and Dynamic Components, Adding

• Preserving Textures in a Dynamic Component

• Projecting Textures, and Embedding, in DCs - (3DW Training Component)

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R

• Replacing Components

• Report, Attribute, Generating

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S

• Saving and Uploading, DCs to the 3D Warehouse - (3DW Training Component)

• Searching for Components

• Scale Handles, Hiding, in a Dynamic Component

• Schema (Classification) [ see also XML and XSD ]

  • Importing, Exporting, and Deleting Classifications
  • SKC file, Creating

• Shadows face sun

• SketchUp User Guide

• Supported Functions, for Dynamic Components

• Supported HTML Tags, for Dynamic Components

• Supported Operators, for Dynamic Component

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T

• Testing a Dynamic Component

• Textures

  • Embedding, in DCs - (3DW Training Component)
  • Preserving, in a Dynamic Component
  • Projecting, and Embedding, in DCs - (3DW Training Component)
  • Unique, Textures, using in a Dynamic Component

• Tips, DC Resources Topic Thread

• Training Components, DC Resources Topic Thread

• Tricks, DC Resources Topic Thread

• Tutorials, DC Resources Topic Thread

• Types, Common, of Dynamic Components, Creating

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U

• Understanding, Dynamic Component Axes - (3DW Training Component)

• Unique, Textures, using in a Dynamic Component

• Uploading, and Saving, DCs to the 3D Warehouse - (3DW Training Component)

• User Guide

  • Dynamic Components User Guide
  • Sectional Outline, DC Resources Topic Thread

• Using, Dynamic Components - (3DW Training Component)

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X

• XML

  • Wikipedia: XML
  • WikiBooks: XML - Managing Data Exchange
  • W3Schools: XML Tutorial
  • W3C XML Standards Resources
  • MSDN XML Developer Center
  • MSDN XML Standards Reference
  • MSDN XML Schemas (XSD) Reference

• XSD

  • MSDN XML Schemas (XSD) Reference

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Training Components

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3D Warehouse Training Collections

SketchUp Team Collection of Dynamic Components Collections & Tutorials,

including:

Dynamic Components Learning Examples

Dynamic Components Self Paced Tutorials

• Introducing Dynamic Components
• Understanding the Dynamic Component Axes
• Using Dynamic Components
• Assembling a Dynamic Component
• Introducing Attributes
• Authoring the Dynamic Components Dialog
• Embedding Textures in Dynamic Components
• Projecting Embedding Textures in Dynamic Components
• Creating a Dynamic Component Plant
• Saving and Uploading Dynamic Components to the 3D Warehouse

DC Function Example Components Collection

These are example components that use the listed DC function in a formula.

• Logical Functions
  • AND()
  • FALSE()
  • IF()
  • NOT()
  • OR() ! no example
  • TRUE()
• Math Functions
  • ABS()
  • CEILING()
  • DEGREES()
  • EVEN()
  • EXP()
  • FLOOR()
  • INT()
  • ISEVEN()
  • ISODD()
  • LN()
  • LOG10()
  • ODD()
  • PI() -> 3.14159265358979
  • RADIANS()
  • RAND()
  • RANDBETWEEN()
  • ROUND()
  • SIGN()
  • SQRT()
• OnClick Functions
  • ALERT()
  • ANIMATE()
  • ANIMATECUSTOM()
  • ANIMATEFAST()
  • ANIMATESLOW()
  • GOTOSCENE()
  • REDRAW()
  • SET()
• SketchUp Functions
  • CHOOSE()
  • CURRENT()
  • EDGES()
  • FACEAREA()
  • FACES()
  • LARGEST()
  • LAT()
  • LNG()
  • NEAREST()
  • OPTIONINDEX()
  • OPTIONLABEL()
  • SMALLEST()
  • SUNANGLE()
  • SUNELEVATION()
• Text Functions
  • CHAR()
  • CODE()
  • CONCATENATE()
  • DOLLAR()
  • EXACT()
  • FIND()
  • LEFT()
  • LEN()
  • LOWER()
  • MID()
  • PROPER()
  • REPLACE()
  • REPT()
  • RIGHT()
  • SUBSTITUTE()
  • TRIM()
  • UPPER()
  • VALUE()
• Trig Functions
  • ACOS()
  • ACOSH()
  • ASIN()
  • ASINH()
  • ATAN()
  • ATANH()
  • COS()
  • COSH()
  • SIN()
  • SINH()
  • TAN()
  • TANH()

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Dynamic Components Tutorials

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This list is for tutorial links, either here in the forums,
or elsewhere, … in video or in print.

FORUM

• Dynamic components and animation in SketchUp

• Sketchup Dynamic Open and Close Door Tutorial

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SELF-PACED 3D WAREHOUSE EXAMPLE TUTORIALS

• DC Function Examples Collection

• Dynamic Components Learning Examples

• Dynamic Components Self Paced Tutorials

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OFFSITE

• The SketchUp Dynamic Components Tutorial

• An excellent user-contributed DC tutorial by Paul Thompson
  A total of 11 lessons.

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PRINT

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VIDEO

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Dynamic Components Books

• Architectural Design with SketchUp:
  Component-Based Modeling, Plugins, Rendering, and Scripting
  Alexander C. Schreyer
  © John Wiley & Sons, Nov 20, 2012 - Architecture - (English) 320 pages

  • Book Review: Architectural Design with SketchUp

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General SketchUp Related Books

Books, SketchUp Learning Resources

• Construction Documents using SketchUp Pro & LayOut:
  Replace traditional CAD with a new generation of 3D software (SketchUp2BIM) (Volume 1)
  by Mr. Paul James Lee
  © CreateSpace Independent Pub., Sep 22, 2013 - Engineering - (English) 70 pages
  • Book Reviews

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NEWS & BLOGS

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SketchUpdate Blog

• Adding custom attributes to your reports

• More about Dynamic Components

• Teaching Dynamic Components to the web: a SketchUp summer research project

• The nerdiest sofa shopping tool ever

• What makes a great 3D Warehouse model? A checklist…

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Other

• The SketchUp Dynamic Components Tutorial
• An excellent DC blog by Paul Thompson

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TIPS & TRICKS

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This list is for linking to other posts (here in this forum or elsewhere,) that give examples of Dynamic Component tips or tricks, best practices, or nifty ideas. Please post your tip, or idea, in another topic thread, and then add the link to this list.

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• Interactive multiple folding steps (for a dynamic component)

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