Not sure what happened to my post - so here's a abridged version...

For those of us that already know the value of grouping geometry - a helpful tool/feature would be the ability to initalise a group BEFORE any geometry was selected or drawn. In order to create a group or component now you need to have created part of the contents and this can be a pain if you are creating nested groups where you want to limit the number of groups within (an onion type arrangement where each group level has ungrouped elements as well as groups which themselves have ungrouped elements etc etc....)

Issue - SKP wants to create a axis point for the group or component on creating. Two possible solutions:

• The files origin becomes the default until you change it later....
• Better still, the group is "initialised" but not created until the first element is selected or drawn at which time the first click becomes the axis/insertion point.

This would help my workflow....anyone seen anything like this about the forums?

This really interests me - but I think I have a band-aid solution that a plugin could solve for thise users that already understand group/component etiquette....

How about the ability to create a group or a component with no current selection - you could create a keyboard or mouse shortcut for this command. The group/component wont know where its axis should be placed, i hear you say. Let's assume that the first click to create a line etc then defines the axis origin and away you go.

Anyone seen anything like this around?

Maybe even add a preference to prompt for group name/description/layer etc on creation or not. Maybe there is a separate command for one with name prompt and one without.