# Edit Component: How to add one component to another? **URL:** \ **Category:** SketchUp\ **Tags:** components\ **Created:** [February 19, 2024, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291 "2024-02-19T06:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/steve_reneeandsteve.net)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/1 "2024-02-19T06:20:54Z")
A (hopefully) simple problem: In **SU Web** , I have a Cabinet component and a Handle component. I would like to edit the Cabinet component by adding the Handle to it. How is that done? I have tried selecting the Cabinet, context-clicking _Edit Component_, and adding the Handle to the Cabinet, but there’s no way I can find to tell SU that I’m done editing. Alternatively, adding the Handle to the Cabinet first and then clicking _Entity Info_ gives a message: “2 components selected. Please choose one to edit.” How do I do that? The two components are not listed in the Entity Info area, and going into the Components list to choose one seems to exit the Entity Info process. Clicking on the Cabinet in the model at this point doesn’t do anything either. Any step-by-step directions or video tutorial on this? ---
**Author:** ![steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/steve_reneeandsteve.net)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/2 "2024-02-19T06:23:04Z")
I could always give the Cabinet + Handle component a new name, but that isn’t really _editing_ a component. ---
**Author:** ![francisquitof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/francisquitof/32/191263_2.png) [@francisquitof](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/francisquitof)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/3 "2024-02-19T06:29:52Z")
> [@steve\_reneeandsteve.net](#): > > but there’s no way I can find to tell SU that I’m done editing. You must just click anywhere outside the component to exit from it. I don’t get well what you are trying to do, can you share the file so any of us can see and have a better understanding to give you a proper solution. ---
**Author:** ![rtches](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/rtches/32/131827_2.png) [@rtches](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/rtches)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/4 "2024-02-19T08:09:33Z")
open the outliner and drag the handle towards the component, it will be inside the cabinet component. Notice that when you click outside the dashed lines while editing your component you finish the editing. ---
**Author:** ![Wo3Dan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/wo3dan/32/7450_2.png) [@Wo3Dan](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Wo3Dan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/5 "2024-02-19T08:42:03Z")
> [@steve\_reneeandsteve.net](#): > > Any step-by-step directions or video tutorial on this? To add the handle component to the context (inside) of another component (cabinet): - rightclick on the handle and copy (=to clipboard). - enter the cabinet for editing - rightclick and apply Paste or Paste in Place while in editing context - close cabinet component. ---
**Author:** ![john\_mcclenahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/john_mcclenahan/32/135377_2.png) [@john\_mcclenahan](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/john_mcclenahan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/6 "2024-02-19T12:41:14Z")
> [@Wo3Dan](#): > > rightclick on the handle and copy (=to clipboard). This will leave an extra handle in the model, outside the drawer component. CUT to clipboard instead, or delete the original handle component. ---
**Author:** ![Wo3Dan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/wo3dan/32/7450_2.png) [@Wo3Dan](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Wo3Dan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/7 "2024-02-19T15:07:32Z")
> [@john\_mcclenahan](#): > > > [@Wo3Dan](#): > > > > rightclick on the handle and copy (=to clipboard). > > This will leave an extra handle in the model, outside the drawer component. > > CUT to clipboard instead, or delete the original handle component. I know. I should have added that extra line saying to delete the original afterwards. Although there needs to be some stuff for the OP to find out. The original would still be visible. I’m not in favour of **‘Cut’** \> ‘Paste (in Place)’. Too much risk in losing the component. If one happens to inadvertently copy something else before pasting. And OP had just spent a whole day modeling the handle component. I know, the component would still be in the ‘In Model’ library. Only one ‘Purge’ away from losing a day’s work. ---
**Author:** ![john\_mcclenahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/john_mcclenahan/32/135377_2.png) [@john\_mcclenahan](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/john_mcclenahan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/8 "2024-02-19T15:28:20Z")
All good reasons to use copy instead of cut - thanks for the clarification to my post. ---
**Author:** ![gshaffer47](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/gshaffer47/32/218313_2.png) [@gshaffer47](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/gshaffer47)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/9 "2024-02-19T21:07:51Z")
copy the handle delete the handle double click to get inside the cabinet component paste-in-place ---
**Author:** ![Chip\_Cookie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/chip_cookie/32/214470_2.png) [@Chip\_Cookie](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Chip_Cookie)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/10 "2024-02-19T21:15:54Z")
Or do what @rtches suggested, and use the outliner. Minimal risk, maximum clicky-draggy. ---
**Author:** ![steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/steve_reneeandsteve.net)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/11 "2024-02-21T03:39:57Z")
Worked like a charm, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/steve_reneeandsteve.net)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/12 "2024-02-21T03:42:35Z")
Good tip on not **Cut** ting the only one of a particular object. I try to keep one copy of everything somewhere off to the side in my model. ---
**Author:** ![Box](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/box/32/235164_2.png) [@Box](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Box)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/13 "2024-02-21T03:43:44Z")
> [@steve\_reneeandsteve.net](#): > > I try to keep one copy of everything somewhere off to the side in my model. If they are components they will be stored in the component browser until you purge them. ---
**Author:** ![steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@steve\_reneeandsteve.net](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/steve_reneeandsteve.net)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/edit-component-how-to-add-one-component-to-another/260291/14 "2024-02-21T03:46:02Z")
True Confession: I had never even noticed those little Cut-Copy-Paste-etc icons above the context menu!