Searchable components browser

[lance_uppercut]

The components browser can get hard to navigate in more complex models with many components, and I would like to suggest a few improvements:

1. Rather than the search bar searching the 3D warehouse, it should search the active model’s components. Quick searching of assets, especially when they are named well, is much better than scrolling through a long list of items.

2. The components browser should by default show the model’s components, not the samples or 3D warehouse items. I think any 3d warehouse related functionality should be removed from the components browser so that it’s completely focused on finding and editing a model’s components, quickly and efficiently. The components browser is in any case not a great environment to see information from the 3d warehouse

3. It would be good to have some way of organizing a file’s components with folders, or applying tags.

4. It appears that if a component is only found nested in another component, is not listed in the components browser. While this is sometimes helpful to reduce clutter, it would nice to have some control over the visibility of components in the browser. An option to ‘show all nested components’ would be useful. I think there is an ‘expand’ option in a component’s right-click menu but it’s only available for externally loaded components.
   Connected to this, the ruby api has a hidden?() method for component definitions, would be nice to also get a setter method hidden=()

5. Finally, the components ‘Select’ tab has a few display options, I would like to have a ‘table’ view with columns showing other information (whether it’s internal or external, source file, tags, description, author), which can be used for sorting or filtering the table.

Components are probably one of the most useful aspects of Sketchup and the Components browser is long overdue for an overhaul.
Thanks for reading!

[endlessfix]

Better component browser function including a simple way to search the in-model list of components has been a repeated request pushing ten years now. Please SketchUp, we can integrate AI rendering diffusion magic, but I still can’t search a simple basic list?

Just a few,

2023

If (SU2024) the next update had only one thing new/fixed about it, what would you want?

from 2023: The request still stands, for many years now, it feels like a reasonable thing to have the search bar in the component browser perform a search of the in model components. With hundreds of components it’s often hard to find one. Another option would be to select a component in the model space and then see it selected and highlighted in the component window list, but that does not work either. [Screen Shot 2024-05-29 at 4.48.24 PM]

2021

Feature Request - Search Local Collection within Components window

It would be helpful to be able to search my local database to filter my components within my Components window on Mac. Currently, if I search within the components window, it shows me all results from the 3D warehouse. If I wanted to find things within the 3D warehouse, I could just open the 3D Warehouse window. I’d rather be able to see only files within the folder I am currently viewing, or the entire library of subfolders within the parent folder. This is something that AutoCAD allows for wit…

2017

Search components inside model by name?

Hi all, is there a way to find component by name? I can’t believe we don’t have this option available. If I try to search it takes me to the warehouse. I want to quickly find a handle component that I’m using in the model.

Search in Components Window works well?

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” [image] But the search returns an empty result. However, I can find the moder through the 3D warehouse [image] 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.

How can I search for an in-model component (on Mac)?

I have a long list of named components in a model. I wanted to find one by name in the component browser, to use Select Instances to see where it is used i the model drawing window, and/or to place a new one. I know I can do the former using Outliner (provided I have Expand All selected). But if I type something in the Components Window Search box, I only seem to be able to search in the 3D warehouse. I can’t find anything useful in SU help with the search term ‘Components Window’. [image…

[RLGL]

There is a component browser in the SketchPlus extension by Mindsight Studios.

[PaulRussam]

@RLGL

There is a component browser in the SketchPlus extension by Mindsight Studios.

It’s a very good one too, I like to have a separate SU file with all my doors, another with all my chairs/sofa etc, another with all my landscape components etc etc.
The MSS browser will scan these SU files, list all the contained components and allow you to drag one out … All WITHOUT having to open the relevant file.

[Cyentruk]

All your suggestions are available in this extension, and it’s free. 5D+ Library - Manage SketchUp assets

[RTCool]

For assets you repeatedly use, it’s good to save them out as component files into file folders on disk, then use “open local collection” in the component palette to see just that collection of stuff. It’s a very focused way to bring components into your model.