Te Wero Bridge Competition in Auckland, New Zealand - Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating - page 32

So, we will create a nested component from a group of component instances
generated in the previous step.

The nested component levels allow us to manipulate positional changes by
moving each component instance as a whole, and we can modify the forms of
each component instance by its component definition at another level.

1. Make a component from a set of component instances created in the

previous step.

2. Context-click > Save As…, and save it with a new file name.

3. Open the saved file, make the positional changes needed, and save it with

a new name.

4. Repeat point 3 and create positional options. In this case, I created

different moments of the bridges during their sequential open/close cycle.

5. Go back to the main file, context-click the set of bridges > Reload, and

switch it with a set in a new position.

FiG 2.9 The saved component file
with positional modifications.

FiG 2.10 Select the nesting component in the main file and reload it.