Is there an efficient way to convert a component instance to a group, keeping transformation and axes, that doesn’t involve exploding the entities to the parent context? I need this on heavy geometry, and exploding takes ages. I can do it efficiently in the UI by grouping everything in the compone…

Ok I see, but as TIG had explained (I thought) the group and the entities need to be in the same context, and they are not. The group and the parent of the entities are in the same context. So then, BugSplat would not be uncommon.

[image] DanRathbun: the group and the entities need to be in the same context Oh? I must have skipped that. Then this should work? But it doesn’t, it still creates groups in the root context. def self.remove_subcomps(definition) definition.entities.to_a.each{|e| if e.is_a?(Sketchup::Comp…

NO ! You are missing a vital point. group = entities.add_group() safely makes an empty group in ANY entities context. You can then add objects into that group.entities context. entities.add_group(entities_ary) will only work if the entities reference is pointing to the model.active_entities. …

[image] TIG: with only work if the entities reference is pointing to the model.active_entities. I see, thanks. [image] TIG: How about this less risky approach ? Which involves exploding the component. This is what I wanted to avoid. Thanks for the help guys, I guess I’ll stick with e…

Yes it would be so much simpler if the API had a to_group() instance method of the ComponentDefinition class, that would convert it to a group definition without all this rigmarole and exploding. All the definition’s instances then would become group instances, and there’d be no need to copy attribu…

I’m not sure I understand. I do what I think you want all the time. When something is already a group or a component, select it and explode it. Without doing anything else first, now take the highlighted entities, right click and make them into the other, from a component to a group or vice versa…

Robert, I wanted to convert components to groups in code, without exploding (which is slow).

I thought it was too easy, but after reading a related post, figured this was ‘other worldly’. In the '90s, when we needed code for websites or macros or something, we always copied it from elsewhere. Too complicated otherwise.

@Robert5643 , if you look up at the topbar (with the topic title and icons on the right,) you’ll see under the title, a breadcrumb list of categories. It indicates that this thread is in the Ruby programming sub-category, of the Developers category. So, we always are talking about doing things via c…

This would be super helpful! Any progress on this plugin? My primary need is to be able to convert the 3000+ components that come in with a revit import into groups, thus speeding up the skp component library itself, which in-turn speeds up vray turnaround time… along with general housecleaning be…

Convert component to group

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DanRathbun July 30, 2021, 1:08pm 31

We requested this years ago. viz …

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