Search in Components Window works well?

[spawn]

Hi everybody.

Can someone tell me if the search bar in Components window works fine?
Maybe I’m doing something wrong.

According to the book I’m reading, I should be able to get this result if I look for “fabric roskes”

But the search returns an empty result.

However, I can find the moder through the 3D warehouse

It’s not a big deal, but It’s not the first time this happens to me (following the book instructions), so … am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[DanRathbun]

@spawn

Can someone tell me if the search bar in Components window works fine?

No it does not, and is a common complaint.

[spawn]

Thanks.

[DanRathbun]

To read more, see Julia’s Feature Request she posted awhile ago:

The Component Browser and 3D Warehouse

I’ve said this before and will now say it again. In my view the Component Browser in SketchUp 6 was much more useful than it has ever been since. I even stuck to using SU6 for many, many years after it had been superseded because of this. The difference is that the old Component Browser was not connected to 3D Warehouse. This meant it was easy to find useful components to use in a project in contrast to how it is now when most models you find were never intended to be used as components. This i…