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    • J Offline
      jman0war
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      Can you access the settings, particularly Always Face Camera, and Set Component Axes after you've created your Component?

      There are 2 ways to make a Component and only one of them leads me to the Create Component panel with those 2 settings.

      • I have a hotkey setup to Make Component and this takes me the Create Component panel.
      • Use the Right Click menu to Create Component, but this does not open the Create Component panel.

      In my scenario I have spent time cutting out areas and drawing lines on a Plane that was flat against the ground.
      When done I Group it, stand it upright, explode, then use my hotkey to Create Component and set Always Face Camera and set Axes.

      But this time i can't explode my Group, when I do I loose all faces, the all just disppear.
      It would be time consuming to try and redraw them all.

      It would be great if I could just convert my Group to a Component AND access the two settings i need..

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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
        last edited by

        https://i.imgur.com/J5JWT9u.png

        The Component Library Panel allows you to set what you need

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          jman0war
          last edited by

          @rich o brien said:

          https://i.imgur.com/J5JWT9u.png

          The Component Library Panel allows you to set what you need

          Components Window, in my version.
          Thanks the Always Face Camera setting is there.

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