I have just discovered cutting components. I think is very ussefull. But I don’t understand how it works.
I have create a cutting component. I have copy (move+alt) the component and the new objetc cut the plane. But when I edit the component the new object doesnt update. I have click on object. It is the same component, the same name…
Select the new group > context-menu > Make Component
Give it a name and axes etc…
A new component is made from the group’s contents…
The making of a group from a ‘trimmed’ solid component is the native tool’s standard behavior.
There is an extension which keeps the cut result as a component…
As I wrote before, the Solid Tools convert the component that gets modified into a group. Although I wish that wasn’t the case, it is normal behavior for the native Solid Tools. Check out Whaat’s Bool Tools 2 or Eneroth’s Solid Tools (from the Extension Warehouse). They do the expected and leave components as components.