Components instead of Groups
- Make Components instead of Groups whenever an object might repeat, or ever be used in another model.
- Groups are great for grouping together components, such as grouping the landscaping elements together.
- A model with 100 of the same tree component isn’t much bigger in file size than a model file with only 1 tree component. When it comes to rendering and performance, SketchUp will also have less work to do.
- Even if the component instances are flipped, rotated, colored from the outside, or scaled, the total file size stays small.
- Need 10,000 trees? Thanks to components, the total file size only rises to 1.5 MB. Each extra tree component instance adds only a fraction of a kilobyte, and rendering can work much more efficiently as it recognizes that the same instance is repeated.