Ruby API - moving things within a definition

[DanRathbun]

This (and related) questions have been asked several times in the past.

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Moving groups between groups with the API

I haven’t posted much to the Ruby API board lately, primarily because I don’t usually need to, most of my code is fairly established and I usually can find a sample within my code to massage a little and reuse it. However, today I’ve come upon a programming problem I don’t think I’ve encountered before. First I’m creating two groups within my parent group: entities0 = maingroup.entities dooronlygroup1 = entities0.add_group entities01 = dooronlygroup1.entities dooronlygroup2 = entities0.add_…

Is there some kind of "set parent" method to "move" a Group inside a container?

In my experience scripting in Vectorworks, there was a way of ‘moving’ an object from inside a container to another one, a function called SetParent. I would like a method to move a Group inside a ComponentInstance, like a user would at the Outliner window!

Understanding the move an existing group into another group Challenge

I know this may have been covered several times already but, not necessarily in one place and in a “This is the best way to do that” sort of way. Can you help me gather current best practices and strategies about this quirky aspect of the API into one place? Please forgive me if I have misunderstood or misstated the actual facts below as I am trying to understand this. Ideally, I can update this post to be more accurate and useful for future users if you can let me know what needs to be revised…