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Add attributes and formulas to the post and its cap - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp Pro: Dynamic Components
Add attributes and formulas to the post and its cap
- [Instructor] In this video we're going to add attributes to the top level component as well as all the subcomponents, and then we'll begin adding formulas to the post and its cap. So to start with let's click here where it says add attribute right underneath picket fence. And this shows us a list of all the different attributes that we can add. In addition, you can create your own custom attributes which is something we'll do in another video. For now I'd like to add the position and size attributes, and you can actually add them one at a time, or to save time you can come up here to the header and say position add all. And that adds each one of these three attributes. I'd like to also add the size attributes, and again, I'll use the header shortcut to add these three different attributes. So right now these are in gray, and these attributes are just reading values off of the model. So for example, the picket fence position is at 0, 3.5 inches in X and Y. And it's on the ground in…
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Create parts of a fence post as components4m 53s
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Create the top and bottom rails and the picket component6m 13s
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Define the overall component container2m 2s
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Add attributes and formulas to the post and its cap8m 12s
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Continue adding formulas to the top and bottom rails4m 18s
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Add formulas to the picket2m 25s
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Define the copy behavior for the pickets4m 34s
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Build the user interface3m 50s
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