@david will said: Is there a way to develop a web application to interact with the model in sketchup? i.e. load,remove, make transparent etc... Ok, firstly welcome, and yes I remember there being a discussion about this at somepoint. There are 3d Pdfs available now which be a solution. @unknownuser said: Say I have 2 groups defined in sketchup, Can I use the application mentioned above to store each group as a record in the database. Does sketchup have model interactivity i.e. if i select a group right click on it and select a defined menu item can I get a data grid that contains the info related to that group?[/ There is a plugin called 'stock maker' where you can select a component and give it some values etc. Though I'm not sure you can export a data base from it but i think you can. Hope that helps