# How to Design and Use Components in 3D (https://academy.spline.design/tutorials/how-to-design-and-use-components-in-3d)

> A video tutorial from the Spline Academy.

- Product: Spline 3D
- Level: intermediate
- Duration: 14 min 51 s
- Published: 2023-01-09
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA
- Part of: [Spline Advanced | Feature Deep Dive](https://academy.spline.design/collections/spline-advanced-feature-deep-dive.md)

## About this tutorial

Hello! In this tutorial, you will learn how components work and how they can make your design faster and more efficient in 3D.

You can find the scene files from this tutorial in the Library (https://app.spline.design/library)

11: 34 Detaching instances

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=0s) Intro
- [0:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=43s) Creating a component instance
- [2:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=144s) Instance overrides
- [4:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=275s) Creating design alternatives
- [5:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=354s) Adding events to components
- [7:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=420s) Overriding interactions
- [9:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=546s) Clever uses of 3D components
- [10:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=618s) Design systems with components
- [10:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=647s) Instance swapping
- [12:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=726s) Reset overrides
- [13:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=791s) Cloner and instances
- [14:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSddFnDjPUA&t=860s) Outro

## Related documentation

- [Components](https://docs.spline.design/designing-in-3-d/components)
- [Materials & Shading](https://docs.spline.design/#%F0%9F%8C%88-materials-&-shading)