'Make Unique' feature

[raedy07]

hello all,

how can i Make Unique again a group i have made part of a bigger group? a group within a group? if ever the 'Make Unique feature' comes up it is grey and i can't select it.

thanx,
Raedy07

[Dave R]

Make Unique is for components, not groups. With groups there's no need for Make Unique.

Make Unique only shows in the Context menu if you right click on a component. It doesn't show if you Context click on a group. If it is grayed out when you right click on a component, that indicates there are no other instances of that component in the model.

[Box]

Groups are by their nature already unique. It's components that need the make unique option.
Perhaps you need to get into the group to the component level to make that unique.

[pbacot]

@dave r said:

Make Unique is for components, not groups. With groups there's no need for Make Unique.

Make Unique only shows in the Context menu if you right click on a component. It doesn't show if you Context click on a group. If it is grayed out when you right click on a component, that indicates there are no other instances of that component in the model.

Sometimes I am making a lot of windows and I change a window, I don't want to lose the first version, I just make a copy of it so I can use the Make Unique feature. You have to click into (edit) the main component to make nested components unique, if that is a concern.

[TIG]

A Group is just a special type of Component-Definition.
Component-Instances share a common Component-Definition: so if you edit one, you edit all.
But if you edit a Group, then it is automatically "made unique".
If you have a Group "in code" you can do this using this code:
group.make_unique
To get a reference to the Group 'by Selection', use this beforehand...
group = Sketchup.active_model.selection.grep(Sketchup::Group)[0]
assuming that just one Group is in the selection...

[raedy07]

thanks - my problem is not solved though. if i create a group, later another group within this group (a subgroup?) and later want to extract this subgroup, how do you do this??

[Dave R]

So you want to get a child group out of a parent group? Have you tried opening the parent group and using Edit>Cut to remove it? Then close the parent group and choose either Edit>Paste or Edit>Paste in place to put the child group out on its own.

You could also just select the child group in Outliner and drag it out of the parent group.