Overview
Building your own library of cabinets and cabinet parts will make your work less time-consuming. You can create your library with all of the building standards that your shop uses. You can create libraries of:
Storing a Component in your Library
You can take any component and save it to your library.
In the following example, I took the base Euro cabinet and added a door, drawer, and shelf. I could have also changed any of the properties from any component within the cabinet to make it the way that I build my cabinets.
You also have the option of renaming any of the components to your particular convention. In this example, I will change the name of the cabinet, and the name of the right end. You can change the names of any of the other sub-components as well.
How To Store a Complex Structure
You can create libraries that consist of complete series of cabinets and parts just as easy as creating a single cabinet.
How to Use a complex Component in your model
You can place your complex component just like any other component by dragging it from the component browser window. Before you can resize or export it however, you must first get rid of the outermost component grouping. This will return the structure to it's initial components.... in our example this will be the three cabinets.
Do this by exploding the complex component. Select the the component, right (context) click and choose explode.
Setting your Library File Preference
You can tell Sketchup where you would like to save your library components via the Sketchup Preferences Dialog:
This will become the default location when you save an entry into your library.