From the course: SketchUp Pro: Dynamic Components
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Continue adding formulas to the top and bottom rails - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp Pro: Dynamic Components
Continue adding formulas to the top and bottom rails
- [Instructor] Let's add formulas to the top rail and the bottom rail. I'll orbit around here and get a closer look at the bottom rail. Let's navigate to the bottom rail here in the component attributes window. So the position of the bottom rail, I'm happy with as it is. So I'm going to double click on this attribute to edit that, and move the cursor preceding the value, and then I'll type equals to lock that down, and then press tab to go to the next attribute. And then the Y position is fine, it's centered in the middle of the post as it is, so I'll just put an equals in front of that to lock that. And I'm also just going to lock the height above the ground, at six inches. I'll press tab and go to the next attribute, which is a size attribute, so the length of the bottom rail is actually going to vary. So I'm going to say equals, and that is going to be equal to the length of the picket fence parent component, so I'll click right here and press tab. And you see something changed, it…
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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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