If I have made a furniture myself and want to save it as a component I have right clicked and chosen Save as component. But then I don’t know where it ends up among my files. Therefor I have always saved my furniture as documents. But when I import my furniture there is often a gigantic yellow fram…

You went into this folder: /Library/Application Support/ you need to go into this folder: ~/Library/Application Support/

I tried, but I’m probably doing something wrong. I am totally confused now. Maybe I should download SketchUp again and see it that changes anything…

You are looking in the right place, for where SketchUp usually saves components. But, I think you have been saving the components into another location, and so they don’t show up in the Components panel. Mike was right about the replace text being missing because you are trying to convert a group t…

Aha! You should not make a group before you make it into a component. Just component right away. I get it now! Thank you so much! :heart_eyes:

Locked for me is dark pink. Selected is yellow. [frame]

[image] HOBBYARCHITECT: You should not make a group before you make it into a component. Making a group before you make it a component is a waste of time.

At least now I know how to save a component, so I simply have to change it so the frame disappear so that’s nice! I have many to change though. Phu! :slight_smile:

[Skärmavbild 2021-09-06 kl. 22.08.08] Sick.

Just posting a screenshot doesn’t really help us sort out the problem. Attach the model so we can check it. The two most likely options are you have stray geometry within each component a long way from the main part or you have somehow set the component axes/origin a long way from the geometry.

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