Sometimes the power goes out or your internet goes down. Building your sketchup library gives you the option to work offline.Take what’s good, make it better, and use that to propel yourself towards success. Simply put, the more better quality things you have over your competitors the more advantage you have. While that’s true, more importantly, we mean quality information is power. This will not only greatly improve your models and help give them your own signature, but will helped you learn a lot about the way other people model. I’ve found that after building your sketchup library you’ll take ownership over the components you use. You’ll start customizing them to your own preferences and style.If you don’t have to, don’t rely on them keeping it there. It’s very possible that the user who uploaded on of your favorite models could take it down and then your out of luck. Your sketchup library lets you keep what you like.Purging the file is a good practice, but if you can avoid it after each time you import a component the better. Importing even a few of the wrong components into your model can greatly increase your file size slowing down your workflow. Most importantly, building your sketchup library saves you time. Searching through the Google 3d warehouse isn’t doing you any favors.5 Reasons You Should Create A Local Sketchup Library In this guide we’ll be delving into 5 reasons you should be creating your own local sketchup library (that is saving models you find and like to your computer). It’s important when you find good models to hold onto them and work towards customizing them to your own modeling style and material preferences. With each well constructed sketchup model comes 5 that are complete junk.
There are a ton of awesome sketchup components in Google’s 3D warehouse and in other various corners of the web but if you’re not adding them to your local sketchup library you’re doing yourself a disservice.
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