Jean's idea is quite reasonable but perhaps alittle more complex than is really needed. There's nothing wrong at all with dozens or even hundreds of scenes; take a look at some of the models done for oil refinery planning.
However, you don't need to make an entirely separate scene for each view of each part, or even for every part. It's quite ok to have several instances of the part and align each one up for the view you need. You can dimension each one as required and put the dimensions on a separate layer would be my advice. If, like me, you are using LayOut you can simplify things a bit by making use of LOs ability to choose a view direction in each viewport and to do dimensions outside the SU model. Clearly, a scene with a single instance of a component can be inserted into an LO doc several times and a different view of the part chosen each time. Better yet you can have several parts in a single scene and so long as you stagger them the right way they will not be seen unless you align the LO view just right.
See http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=8897f179f3a39153ad8e59ce1bc6436 and look at the 'parts' scene for an example.
This is the PDF generated from that model -
Rustic Pine Bed.pdf