Dynamic drawer box that refers outside model

SketchUp Dynamic Components
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Hi there

I’ve been exploring the wondrous world of the dynamic components and already suffered many frustrations :smiley: .

Now the thing is: I’m looking for a way to make cabinet design (even more) easy.
I want to create dynamic shelves that adjust automatically to the cabinet they are placed in.
So i make a dynamic cabinet, and use a separate dynamic shelve, paste it in the cabinet and poof! The shelve resizes so it fits the cabinet.
I want different shelves for fixed and adjustable shelves (they need margin).

Next thing is, but the idea is the same, that i want to do the same with drawer boxes. This takes too much time to resize, so i want it to be automatically.

Is this even possible? I don’t see how i can create a component that refers to another component, that’s not yet in the drawing.

I think i saw someone do it on Youtube, but i can’t find the video anymore.

Well if anybody can help, thanks alot!
Greetz
Pieter Delrue

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In the child components, you can refer to it’s (yet to be) parent’s attribute values by preceding the attribute name with parent!, as in:

=(parent!width-2)/2

The parent component’s attributes can refer to a child’s attributes by name. So you’d need to come up with some naming convention.

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Okay thank you very much, I’m gonna try some stuff!

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It’s lifechanging. Trust me. I learned it by accident watching some Basecamp.