To update references on change of a global, one needs to do a "redraw" as per the context menu for each component, rather than do this manually, a simple ruby script can be attached to a button as per https://forums.sketchup.com/t/redraw-all-dynamic-components/77512 https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=ae_ToolbarEditor where else a component instance will update to the current global on insert. Can you share the main focus of your use of DCs? as its quite likely other scripts will be useful.

@skastafari said: I am looking for a method to exclude pages from my animation similar to how the "Include in animation" checkbox works from within Sketchup's scene editor. ... I had found a thread from Dan Rathbun somewhere dating a couple years back discussing a need for this, but I can't seem to find what the outcome was. If anyone knows, please advise. FYI,... Finally, ... the API has been updated for version 2018 and higher ... ... both a query method and a setter method have been added to the Sketchup::Page class. Sketchup::Page.include_in_animation= Sketchup::Page.include_in_animation?

Wow! okay. This is totally awesome. This is quite a few levels above what I am capable of writing. This may take me like a week just to figure out. Sdmitch, you have saved me hundreds of hours of treachery. I want to buy you a beer, but I think you deserve a whole keg. This is way better then what I was plugging away at. Tig had got me thinking in the right direction about what I was trying for better ideas, and I had a feeling bounds was the answer to locating the foobar. I changed line 65 to some regex (=~/^[Ff]oo/) I learned from Tig back in the day to solve for a couple foos that were made unique and I left out the selection bits. This should be the example to anyone trying to get components out of their parents and gathered into their own. I want to thank the community here for being so awesome and living up to the name Sketchucation. I have learned so much from guys like Dan Rathbun, Thom Thom, TIG, sdmitch and too many others to list. Thanks & Cheers!

Thanks thomthom, you never let me down.

Heh, I opened that can of worms and closed it real quick. I went to an array from a list of model names to hide. I am much happier this way. Thanks

Jim's was updated to use Assimp and the external SU C++ SDKrecently in the last 3 months... just sayin... john

If anyone is interested, I finally solved my imported group's origin problem fairly simply with this... ga = entities.grep(Sketchup::Group) ga.each { |e| n=e.name; e.model.entities.add_group(e); e.parent.instances[0].name=n} Basically it just takes all the groups after import, adds them into a new group and names the new group the same name. This resets the origin, and allows the swap code to work properly.

Thanks again TIG! I am very grateful. I knew I was missing something, but was pretty much stumped. Thanks for putting me back on track, and so quickly. Cheers

Looks like you focused only on group class, and corrected the wall name syntax, and I am very grateful as it now works! Thanks Tig