I originally did this post for Useful Spaces, a blog that my fellow kitchen designer and Sketchup Geek Arne Salvessen maintains. If you haven't read it, you should!

A lot of times when you are modeling things in Sketchup, you create items that would be great to reuse later. In this video, I will show you how to turn that useful fruit bowl, picture of your favorite pet, or anything else into a component. Once you've done that, you can save it into a folder and easily pull it in to a new Sketchup model with just a click. This is a great time saving tool for any modeler at any level of Sketchup experience.