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

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 [image] …

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

[image] 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 S…

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.

Searchable components browser

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Cyentruk July 10, 2025, 7:39pm 5

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

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Searchable components browser

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