Component List Renaming

[MikeWayzovski]

Check this thread as well, not for renaming, but for handling visibility of the objects in LayOut:

Plugin: Create a Tag per selected component

Hi guys, I am working on a model with many components at the moment and now comes the dreaded part of creating the Layout document specifying each component. So I was wondering - is there a plugin or something that creates a unique Tag/Layer for each selected component and places the component on that layer. That would make it super easy to modify which parts to show and which parts to hide in Layout. I can do this by hand of course but it feels like an task for a trained monkey that needs pu…