Moving children parallel to parent components

alz

Not sure if there's a native way to do this in SketchUp. If not, then is there a plugin that does this...?

I have 1 component ("A") with 1 nested component ("Z").
The "A" component is duplicated 30 times in the scene.
I want to move all nested instances of "Z" out from "A"
When I move "Z" out from "A", I'm left with is only 1 instance of "Z", not 30.

I'm looking for some quick action that pulls the child out from the parent, keeping the 30 times they appear in the scene.

Sir

explode doesnt do it? if not i dont quite understnad what your situation

Dave R

How about this? Open the parent, select and cut the child (Ctrl-X), close the parent, Edit>Paste in Place.

Edit: I just tried this. It doesn't copy all of the instances of the "Z" component.

Is there any reason not to explode the parents? You could select all of them from the In Model component library and then explode them.

TIG

Select all of the As.
Explode them all and erase everything that's NOT Z.
You have all of the Zs where they were ?
NO remnants of A ?

If you want to split the parts - so you have all of your Zs and the rest of A, do this...

Place an instance of A at the Origin.
Make this A instance unique (A+).
Erase Z from A+'s definition.
Erase the temporary A+ instance.
Place an instance of A at the Origin.
Make this A instance unique (A-).
Erase everything that's not Z from A-'s definition.
Erase the temporary A- instance.
Now you have a new definition A+ without Z.
You also have a new definition A- that is really Z transformed to suit (Z~).

Copy all of the A instances - the '30' - in place, without moving them - perhaps if you grouped them to make sorting easier it's help...
Replace one set of the As instances with the definition for A+ and the other set with definition A- (Z~)...

All done the parts are split...

If definition A no longer exists separately then perhaps delete it (=purge), and rename A+ as A.
If definition Z no longer exists separately then ditto A- >>> Z...

Now you have

alz

Thanks for the suggestions!

TIGs idea was what I was starting to do. Funny that there's no automated feature like "Split children from parents"

TIG

Why not write us one...