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dominicm143

i've saved my old model as a component, and now it won't let me interact with the individual objects.
its a very large model so everything runs slow... and there are no previous saves i can revert to.
i want to add and edit textures to the objects... BUT now it just applies it to the whole model.
HELP!
~dominic muscatella

mac1

Shoulds like and hopefully your model is made up of nested components / groups. If so you can use the window=>outliner find the entity you want, select it and go form there

Jean Lemire

Hi Dominic, hi folks.

If you apply texture to a component or group from outside the component or group, the texture is applied to everything inside the component or group, except if some texture was applied before, inside the component or group.

To edit individual items. you must go inside the component or group to be able to modify it.

Alternatively, you can explode the component containing your whole model.

Then, you will be able to access individual items.

Just ideas.

MartinRinehart

@dominicm143 said:

i've saved my old model as a component, and now it won't ...
~dominic muscatella

Exactly how?

I don't know what's in your model, but try this technique which I'll explain as if you've modeled a house.

Explode. Delete everything but the top story and roof. Save as 'attic'.
Reload. Delete everything above ground. Save as 'basement'.
Continue until you have a collection of tractable pieces. You can now delete the original. (Well, save to another name: my_old_model_that_I_may_not_need.skp.)

To rebuild, File/New, then import the parts one at a time, clicking the origin. They should assemble correctly if you import each to the origin.

That will give you a collection of small, easy-to-use models. One other technique. If you move everything in the 'attic' model into a layer named 'attic', when you import you will have a single component named 'attic' in a layer named 'attic'. Very handy for SketchUp animations.