HELP: Open Cutlist - Materials List differs from Cutting Diagram Materials Overview

[MikeWayzovski]

The floor beams are only 38x89 mm, if you drop something, you will probably feel the whole shed shaking. Also, there is no real frame for the door and all the sidings seems to be turned around. One should alway think in terms of “If I was a little raindrop, where would I go”

I redraw it and made it a component with the scale attribut added, so the grips don’t get to close:

If you name the instances, you wouldn’t be needing so much different component defintions.For this front, I only used one component definition:

Here is the report:

the file:
GardenHouse.skp (2,9 MB)

[Zvonko]

@slbaumgartner

The heart of a Component is a Component Definition . This is like a template that spells out what is in the component. Component Definitions are like abstract objects waiting to be made real. They are what you deal with if you open the Components window.

What you see in the model is an Instance of the Component. That is, a concrete collection of stuff assembled based on the instructions in the Component Definition and placed at a specific location, orientation, and scale in the model. You can pull a new instance of a Component out of the Components Window and drop it the desired place in the model. Or you can create a new Instance by copying an existing one in the model.
Each Component can have any number of Instances placed in the model - including none.

You know how sometimes you can hear/see something a ton of times and all of a sudden it clicks? Well, this explanation did it for me.

I’ve been getting a better understanding of components, but it still hadn’t clicked. Maybe it’s my background in Object Oriented Programming, but the Definition vs Instance clarification really helped.

Thanks.