Body Panel "missing" Whenever I Try to Edit Group

SketchUp Pro
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I’ve got a weird error that I can’t track down. Every time I try to edit a specific group (2016 BMW 7 Series_0) within this model, the group itself disappears when I double click to edit and in some cases won’t return.

Here’s a before picture before I try to edit the group -

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Yet once I click into the group, the whole section disappears. What’s really odd is that when I use this model as a Proxy in Enscape, this same group in the model also disappears, which makes me think there is some one-off setting in SU that’s preventing it from appearing correctly.

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Here’s a link to the model in case it’s helpful.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R_8OIYCVjwACMUBTSMJttJEl1SXiIakj/view?usp=sharing

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I am guessing that geometry is in another group. When you enter the group for the rest of the car, that one is disappearing so to your Component Edit visibility settings.

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There is a bizarre scaling situation in which the first nested group (series 0) seems to have been created at an immense size and then scaled down by a factor of 3.9e-7. SketchUp’s view goes nuts handling this strange scaling when the group is opened for edit and then can’t seem to recover. I haven’t yet found a way to restore this model to sanity, but I’ll keep trying.

Edit: it is not a tags issue, as everything in the model is untagged.

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Right click, scale definition?

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That item doesn’t show on the right-click menu, maybe because it’s a group? There is a “reset scale” item, but it causes the group to revert to enormous size and drives SketchUp crazy.

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Group yep, explode and regroup? I’m on phone so only making suggestions because I can’t try myself.

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Yes! That appears to have worked. I’ll poke it a few more ways to make sure all is well again, but so far looks good.

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There are lots of scaled groups in the set.
I recommend running this to reset them…

model=Sketchup.active_model
model.start_operation('group_descaler',true)
groups=model.definitions.find_all{|defn| defn.group? }
count=groups.length
time_in=Time.now
puts
groups.each_with_index{|group,i|
  puts "#{i+1}/#{count}"
  insts=group.instances.each{|inst|
    lay=inst.layer
    mat=inst.material
    name=inst.name
    ents=inst.parent.entities
    gp=ents.add_group()
    gp.name=name
    gp.layer=lay
    gp.material=mat
    ins=gp.entities.add_instance(group, inst.transformation)
    ins.explode
    inst.erase!
  }
}
puts "\nDone #{count} in #{Time.now - time_in}secs"
model.commit_operation

Should take under 5 mins to complete…

PS: the surfaces of the headlights are ‘reversed’, this could cause issues later if you want to render it - easy to reverse them…

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@TIG I’m assuming this is code I can copy/paste into the “Ruby Console”? I’m guessing because this would have been the first time I’ve done it. Appreciate you looking into this.

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Hmm…when I tried that code (after fixing the missing # on the Should take… comment), SketchUp crashed! I sent in the Bug Splat.

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I’ve fixed the typo…
Added the comment after typing and it should have been inside the code-block…

Edited the code.
Removed the make_unique part which isn’t needed…
It works fine for me [PC]…

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The revised version ran in 76 secs on my Mac. No idea why the first attempt crashed…

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That’s a lot quicker than on my PC, but then that is so old it probably had the wrong type of coal !

I can’t see any simpler/quicker way to undo all groups’ scaling…