I am designing wooden vertical blinds for the house. After creating the individual blind sections and stacking them 2” apart, I created a group for all the sections. I want to know if I can rotate each horizontal blind section at the same time when they are grouped using the rotation tool or some o…

Based on the view of Outliner you have all of the slats inside a single component. This shows Outliner in my model. [Screenshot - 12_1_2025 , 8_31_17 AM] I opened one of <Component#1> and rotated the Slat component within. I guess Mike has already answered so this is moot. I opted to do the doub…

So you want to do something like this? [Blinds] [image] joelundin853: After creating the individual blind sections … Did you make each slat a component? Do they really have to move or is it enough to show them in either the open or closed position? Are you still using SketchUp 2021?

Not that it really matters, but vertical blinds are the ones with the slats going vertically.

So you want to do something like this? Yes please Did you make each slat a component? No Do they really have to move or is it enough to show them in either the open or closed position? I want them to move Are you still using SketchUp 2021? No I’m using 2025.

My bad.. yes they are horizontal blinds…

Dave, after making each section a component, what tool did you use? Thank you for the input and response.

Dave, after closer review of the animation drawing you attached, do I just use the move tool at the corner position of a slat. How is the center axis defined so all the components don’t just go up and the tilt?

I made the first slat as a component within a component. This was copied up using Move/Copy to make an array. To rotate the slats I opened the top level component of one of them for editing, and used the Move tool to roate it about its center. Could also the Rotate tool but then you need to find the…

Dave.. Thank you so much for your assistance..I created what I think are components within a component and I am still unable to move or rotate the slots on their center axis. I also tried selecting one of the slots and grabbing a corner to move it up to rotate all the slots at once. I am still rotat…

@DaveR will ask you to post your model… screenshots are useless for this sort of help. Did you go into a blind component, select all, then rotate the geometry?

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Synchronized rotation of Horizontal blinds

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