Hello - is there a way to ungroup elements?

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Probably a stupid question, but is there a way to ungroup elements in SketchUp? i have a group and want to cut a hole in it…

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Ungroup is called “explode” n SketchUp, and is available in the right-click context menu when a group is under the cursor.

However, it should only rarely be necessary to explode a group. For the kind of action you seek, you open the group for edit by double-clicking on it and then operate on the contents without exploding it.

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You can cut a hole in a group without ungrouping it. You double click on the group and edit it. Look at the free SketchUp lessons, and it will guide you through it.

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Thank you. i will try exploding it since there are not many elements in my model yet. I know - not a good habit to fall into.

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Thanks. I will give it a try!

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Why don’t you try the GOOD habit of just opening the group for editing instead?

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But that’s ignoring the better way I recommended! The complexity of the model has little relevance to doing it the better way.

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After seeing the response from Royce, that is what i will do.