Hi guys Looking for a bit of advice. I’ve been designing some small pods in timber. I have been doing it brute force method for a while. Using components and Open Cut List for reporting. It worked very well for a bit. Now the work load has increased and I need to be more efficient in my design wor…

I use this one all the time… https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/4f10947f-6ce8-4295-a372-eae6e7cd3cae/groups-to-components It’s made by @thomthom

Thanks. This worked pretty well. Did exactly what it says it does. The issue with this is it doesn’t dig deep to change all groups to componets. The other issue is once I do this it breaks it from the medeek plugin so you can’t use it to modify anything using the plugin. With that said, I can keep …

I haven’t used the Medeek plugin, but I use thomthom’s selection toys - it also has the function it converting groups into components. Bonus that when you are selecting them you can choose active, by layer, etc. It goes deep, into nested groups and components as well as hidden, tags that are off, et…

S4U components in my opinion is the best tool for this kind of work, it’s a paid one though.

Only a year late to this thread… I have a model from an architect (must’ve converted to a sketchup file from another software) and all of the entities are groups not components. Trying to use this extension to convert them to components (End goal is to generate a report on all of the timbers to get…

You need to install its Requirements too: TT_Lib² Restart SketchUp after installing, then you will have a menu item in Extensions>>‘Convert Groups to Components’

Thanks. I just installed that as well. I still don’t have the menu item in my dropdown for some reason. Now when I try to open “Extension Manager” nothing opens. I did just leave my home desk and am working of my laptop now so I figured the window was just opening “off-screen”. That does not seem …

Changing multiple groups into components

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dezmo June 27, 2024, 12:20pm 11

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Changing multiple groups into components

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