Here is a little glitch I am experiencing with this trick.

I selected 10 column components w/ unique names and used the process to replace them with
the selected component within my component browser. The existing unique components imediatly
vanished from the model. It turns out that they did not disapear, but relocated themselves to
a point about 2000 feet away on the red axis. They were also stacked on top of each other.

So I says to myself...humph...Must be an axis isssue. I looked at the original unique components
with show component axis turned on and there was none. No axis I mean.

I then opened each component and gave them an axis at the same spot on the column base and tried
the process again.

It worked. Unfortionately, this dilutes the usability of the component linking trick in that one
has to handle each component individualy to define an axis.

I am guessing that this lack of axis is a result of exporting a .3ds model from Archicad into sketchup.

Any thoughts on how to assign an axis to a bunch of unique components?

This is still a handy trick even if it does not work out in this instance.

Thanks again.

pmo

First open beer, then open sketchup!

pmo

Thank you Sir.

pmo

Hi all,

I am new to this forumn, but not to sketchup.
I am wondering if there is a way to tell a bunch of individual components within a sketchup model to no
longer be unique.

Heres the situation...I have imported a 3ds model that was originally an Archicad model into sketchup.
It came in pretty nicely and is very much usable as a base for a more refined Sketchup model.
There are about 4000 individual uniquely named components in this model even though many of them are exactly
identical. For intance, a nice 14" dia tuscan looking column component is repeated 20 times, but they are all
unique only in name, so when I edit one the others do not change.

Is there a way to rename & relink these components so I don't have to edit each individualy?

The only thing I can think of is to rename one and do a save as, & then bring it back in & replace each of the
others manualy. Thats a bit time consuming in that there are aproxomately 100 individual copper standing seam
arched roof panel components just in the entry area alone.

Any thoughts out there?

If this is the wrong place to post a question, I apologize.

Thanks

Pmo