Recently updated to Skp26 and love the visibility addition for the grips on scaling things. But I noticed today that scaling an array of components is making them all unique. Is that intentional? There’s nothing listed in the release notes that I could find that mentions that as a change.
I’ve attached a couple screenshots below. In this example I have an array of fins with a spacer. The fin is a component and the spacer is another - so they’re evenly arrayed on this curved wall. I needed to stretch them up - then noticed I couldn’t edit them all as components. For this example I stretched them down to replicate the issue.
Sometimes in my workflow I will make a component and then scale it up depending on the complexity needed so that I can work around SketchUp’s tolerance limitations - things like scaled maps with 3D buildings for instance. That method would be broken now if the scaling breaks component instances.
The Fin component - which isn’t a component with sub-groups does not make itself unique. The Spacer - which has a panel, and the block on the bottom and lighting elements does become unique. This still breaks my method of scaling components up and down, but I guess it narrows down what can and can’t be scaled if this is indeed an intentional change to the software.
If you can share that part of your model, we can inspect it to find a definite answer. Right now we are just guessing (though @ryan.moore raises a good question).
I’ve been working in a model today in which I’m scaling copies of components with the intent of leveraging the connection for creating small geometry. SketchUp 2026 is not making the scaled components unique.
I wonder if you have an extension that might be doing that.
It’s possible. I’ve noticed certain plugins not functioning correctly in SketchUp 26 in general. S4U’s Slice plugin for instance no long flips planes when pressing the tab button.
I also just realized I have a Dynamic Light component inside this spacer component. The light on the bottom group is a dynamic light I built a long time ago, but I don’t think it’s ever caused this scaling issue before. Maybe that’s overriding the component instance? I still have SketchUp 25 still installed so I can test it out there too.
Ok so this is also occurring in SketchUp 25.. which means either SketchUp’s gaslighting me or I’ve somehow never encountered this specific scaling conflict.
I’m guessing the “DYN_RECESSED_CANLIGHT” component is overriding its parent component instance, even though the parent is not a dynamic component. Waiting for yall to confirm.
thanks @bmike and @ryan.moore for the feedback. I guess I’ve never run into this particular scaling conflict with dynamic components. Very interesting.
