Improved groups and components

[Dakta]

Anyone who has ever used sketchup knows how really nice working with groups and components is.

As an overview for those who don't know, groups behave a lot like Algodoo groups. They select and move like a single item. There is only one thing wrong with them: you can't just edit them. Sketchup handles this perfectly. When you double click on a group, everything else greyes out and behinds uneditable. You basically go into the group wrapper and can only edit the group items, but you can edit individual items like normal.

Components are basically like groups except that they're like templates. Each component is the exact same as all others of its type. When you edit one, all the rest of that component are changed. This is very useful for chain links, tank tracks, vehicles eith lots of wheels, etc.

I hope you guys can appreciate how useful this feature would be.

[Rrobba]

I don't see this being extremely useful, but I appreciate that it may come in handy at times.

[Dakta]

I can see this being extremely useful.

What if you’ve got a vehicle with a bunch of complex softwheels and you have them all positioned and you want to change something on all of them. This way, if you made them components, changing one would change all, saving lots of time.

Also, having to ungroup and regroup groups to edit them is a PITA. This improved group editing function would definitely be useful.

[sheepborg]

USEFULL!!!!

when i have to make sure several things are aligned but one needs to be changed it is difficult to garentee i keep the group (do with select alike) but if i have duplicates of parts it doesnt work

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