Replacing Selected Component Instances as New Component?
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Is that possible in native Sketchup? Is there a plugin for that?
Basically, I have lots of component instances. I want to change textures in a few hundred of those. Obviously, since they are components, if I change one, I change all. And if I make them unique, and change the texture one by one, I will spend a century doing it.
Thus, what would be needed would be to select the component instances I want and "rename" them as a new component. Thus, they will effectively be a new component and will remain in the same place, in their same group and then I can select just ONE of them and all of them will have the texture changed at the same time without affecting the other component instances (which now are not the same component anymore)
Sorry about the english. I cant make myself clear in these explanations.
ps: if you are wondering what I want it for, its creating glass panels for skyscrapers
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=18009 -
I think I understand what you are asking for. If you select multiple instances, and then choose "make unique", all of the selected instances will now share a new component definition. CB.
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@daiku said:
I think I understand what you are asking for. If you select multiple instances, and then choose "make unique", all of the selected instances will now share a new component definition. CB.
Thanks! It was too obvious for needing a plugin for that... but then, there are some obvious things that needed to be implemented via plugins...
you saved my day pal (literally, since I would spend hours doing it manually!)
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