I would like to quickly and easily convert a component to a group. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be an appropriate method for this. Is the appropriate workaround to simply explode the component instance and then collect up the entities and utilize the add_group method?

This block of code works, and also retains the layers and materials of the groups within the component instance: def insert_switch (switch_file) switch_compdef = MedeekMethods.load_component_switch switch_file xtrans = @Switch_loc ytrans = @Switchy ztrans = @Switch_height trans_switch = …

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DanRathbun January 29, 2019, 4:33pm 15

medeek:

I can see there has been plenty of discussion regarding this issue and plenty of suggestions from SU minds that are far superior to mine but I don’t really see a clear path forward.

Convert component to group Ruby API

Was also going to post this link. (Barry beat me to it.) Pay special attention to the last post by TIG, which explain a non-explode way. (But you’ll still need to do the property and attribute copying part. Then erase the cinstance, a lastly the definition purge.) Here’s another related topic: Move all entities to new group This is butt-backward to what he wants. And at one time this method (to_component) was bugged in that it dropped all the attribute dictionaries (perhaps other proper…

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