How to Create Groups and Components?

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@claysoules

how do I go about storing these components for use in a separate model.

You create a local collection to keep them in. I was going to type how but then just used the search function and found a good explanation from Dave.

Component Window: Collections

A local collection is a folder of components (skp files) that you’ve created to save things on your computer for later use. Open a local collection allows you to navigate to and open the folder containing the collection. Create a new collection is used for creating the folder where you want to collect your components. Save as a local collection allows you to save all of the components in your current SketchUp file as a collection. This would be useful if, for example, you created a bunch of l…