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Dynamic Components
Matt Chambers
Matt Chambers, Independent Consultant, has been using, teaching, and
consulting on 3D applications at numerous university and commercial capacities
over the past 8 years. He discovered SketchUp in 2003, when he was working as an
adjunct architecture professor at North Dakota State University. Over the past several
years, Matt has trained hundreds on how to include SketchUp into very specific
design workflows. As a lead beta-tester, Matt helped refine and define how Dynamic
Components are built as well as how they can be used.
Dynamic Components are “smart” components that are created to do any
number of things. Pieces can animate when the component is interacted with,
parts can copy and position themselves when the component is scaled, and
any number of configurations can be stored in and accessed from a single
component. This is done by applying functions and formulas directly to the
component's attributes, which are things like position, rotation, material, size,
etc. The attributes have always been there; the Component Attributes dialog
allows for their manipulation beyond the visual clicking and dragging ways
most SketchUp users are accustomed to. There are many workflow possibili-
ties with Dynamic Components, and it would take a book to adequately
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