Persistent ID Errors when Copying Groups/Components

[DanRathbun]

@Sasquatch

Now I need to learn how to insert snippets like you did

I posted a topic on this …

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@Sasquatch

Unfortunately the new code does not perform the desired effect. The rotation is about the origin of the group, not the model origin.

I did not solve the rotation axis, only the persistent ID problem.

When the user selects a bunch of entities and group it, the origin (transform) of this new group is a transition between the model origin and the lower left corner of the bounding box surrounding those entities.

EDIT: Nevermind this suggestion, just use the initial group's transformation as the base transform.

So you’ll likely need to make a temporary bounding box, add the bounds of all the selected entities, and get a vector from the origin to the BB’s minimum corner.

bb = Geom::BoundingBox.new
entarray.each {|ent| bb.add(ent.bounds) }
vec = ORIGIN.vector_to(bb.min)
t1 = Geom::Transformation.translation(vec)

… then use this to get a difference between it and where the user wants the rotational axis to be.

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Also a quirk of the API is that when inside an editing context (of a group or component instance) the many API methods return or expect coordinates in world values instead of local values.