Today, we are extremely pleased to introduce a new type of configurable object for SketchUp: Live Components. Live Components are built on Materia, a new modeling platform that aims to deliver smart 3D content to Trimble customers. Materia is the result of Trimble’s acquisition of MatterMachine, a N…

I just hope they are going to enable global edits, so you can change the color or door style of ALL the cabinets in the model derived from the same live component (or maybe just a selection), even though most of them will be unique components due to different widths and door/drawer configurations. I…

Hopefully, this develops into a really cool full-fledged tool for users. Also, @Bryceosaurus the link for more information link in the “Park Bench Assembly” leads to a “500: Oops! An error has occurred.” page for me. Any else experiencing this?

[image] danbetteridge: trying to open it in Safari (14.0) and the page does not load Safari doesn’t support our model viewer very well. I will add this to our known issues list. Chrome is recommended. Firefox is ok, New Edge should also work pretty well too.

[image] JustinTSE: What do you mean by “assemblies? We mean objects that fit together to build something more complex. Examples are: air ducts, curtain walls, or modular furniture.

[image] Teeem: “Park Bench Assembly” leads to a “500: Oops! An error has occurred.” Strange, I’m seeing the link work. I’ll check with @jody to see if I’m doing something wrong with links here. Maybe these will work better: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/1d6e435f-97f8-4da0-824c-ff53…

Hi Bryce those open just fine. I was referring to the links in the description on 3D warehouse. Sorry for being unclear. Here are the links I’m refer to: “ Trimble Identity ” (this one works for me) “ https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/1192b9c9-5c4e-46a6-83c8-017c21d8e45c/Park-Bench ” (this one…

Ah… the model was republished so the url changed - Trimble Identity I’ll see if there’s a way to persistently link to the latest version of a model.

Interesting interview with the founder of MatterMachine (the company Trimble acquired and based live components on) from 2014, with some screenshots of the software. Maybe a glympse into how authoring may work. Looks node-based. https://www.open-electronics.org/mattermachine-is-the-third-industrial-…

Introducing a new kind of SketchUp object: Live Components

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Bryceosaurus October 22, 2020, 2:58pm 30

We view this as being able to edit common parameters across different objects. It’s definitely on our roadmap.

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