Components do not save

danna

Yesterday I made a few components, and they appeared in the components list. I could drag them into the drawing.

Today ... no where to be found on my machine.
The folder I had created and was saving to is empty.

Tried making a few today on a new file.
Results are the same, they show up in component list when created ... I can bring them into the drawing, but they are not being saved to the folder.

Help !

Rich O Brien

Components live within a file unless explicitly saved to a dedicated location.

Creating a component within a file does not automatically add them to an external library.

To save a component within a file to a library you can right-click > Save As in the model space.

Or right-click the component in the files component library...

Both will then open the chosen location in System Prefs

danna

@Rich-O-Brien said in Components do not save:

Components live within a file unless explicitly saved to a dedicated location.

Creating a component within a file does not automatically add them to an external library.

Uhhh ... makes sense, and I surely missed it.

Thank you !!!

Rich O Brien

@danna It's probably your logic that's misaligned. Which I completely understand.

You expected the System Prefs Component path to store all created components to that location.

Whereas components live within models until you tell it to be accessible globally by saving in a defined library.

Components are containers. When you have many within a model they don't carry the same amount of overhead as groups or raw geometry.

When you make a component within a file and then use the Save As to store it all you essentially are doing is creating a SKP file that only contains the objects within the component.

To double back on why Susan is in your 'In Model' library. Every component created will be in the In Model component library unless you purge it. So if Susan was originally in the file but deleted from the model space she still remains.

Dave R

@danna why is your MyComponents folder in the Downloads folder?

What's wrong with using the default location for components?