Editing Components

What is new in my drawing?
I have the roof for the garage and made a component of it, and I have placed a number of components of the window on different walls, plus some on the roof.

 

To edit the “window” component, we have two options:
1. Right-click on a component, no matter what, and choose “Edit Component” in the drop-down menu.
2. Or, a second way, you double-click a component.

Both ways brings us to the edit mode of the component.
The first thing I do is to divide the window into two parts by placing a strip of wood between them. If you remember everything I taught you, it would not be difficult for you to do this.
Zoom in on the window, draw a square and use the push / pull tool to stretch it to the opposite edge of the window.

Then I make the window transparent.
Click on the “Window” in the menu and select “Materials” in the drop-down menu.
This opens the “Materials”.
Click the downward pointing arrow and choose “Translucent”.
Click on one of the options, move the mouse pointer over the window, and click when you see that it is changed to a paint bucket. Because I divided the window above into two parts, I must repeat this for the bottom part.

As you can see in the image below, each component of the window that we used in our drawing, is now changed.
Or maybe not.
As you can see in the image below, the resemblence of the components of the windows in the roof are not transparent.
But yes, it is only because these window components are ON another component, that is, the roof component, and for this to appear in the correct way, we need to place this again in the roof component.

We make it easy for ourselves if we cut this and paste this on the roof component.

First, we select the three skylights (1).

We click the “Edit” button in the menu bar and choose “Cut” in the drop-down menu (2).

We double-click the roof component, this puts us in the editing mode for the roof component.
Click again on the “Edit” button in the menu bar and choose “Paste on location” in
drop-down menu (3).
This pastes the three window components in the “Roof” component.
We call this a nested component.
A component in a component is called a nested component.
In this case, therefore, the “roof” component is a nested component.

If we click somewhere outside the roof componet, it closes the edit mode, we see that the windows in the roof are now transparent.

Note: The same procedure until you add on “Groups”.
In other words, a component in the group, not the ‘ON’ the group.

 

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