Hi there, my name is Tucker.
I've got a project where I am making a folding mobile work bench for construction.
Problem:
I want to figure out the best way to organize my components within groups when I want to make copies, than make unique, I want to make sure that there all organized in the simplest way within my outliner. I want to develop good habits now so that down the road when I have huge models, I don't want to be confused.
I have uploaded photos to show what's going on and a description immediately below explaining what is happening throughout each photo.
As you can see step by step (photo by photo). I select a group within my main workbench group.
1 - I copy the group I want
2 - I exit the group selection screen and into the space of my entire model (than I paste my copied group into sketchup so that I'm not pasting within the same group)
3 - I now make the copied group unique (which only makes all component groups unique
4 - Looks good so far, when I select the wood top panel in the photo you can see it doesn't highlight the other component of it's same kind because I've made it unique.
5 - now when I select a deeper group within that whole copied groups that I made unique, it now selects my other piece on the original bench top. I don't want that, I know that's because I have to make everything within those groups and sub groups all unique if I want every part to act as a unique component.
Do I really have to go through every sub group and select all of it's components to make everything unique just to work on them individually and with no strings attached?
When I select a child group within my parent workbench group I want to copy that child group and make a copy of it. When I do, I now have to make every single component within that copied group UNIQUE. When I do this, it looks like my outliner starts to go haywire haha, I wonder if this is the cleanest way and easiest way to make a copied group of components organized in sketchup because what happens when down the road I have a wack load of components in that group, I dont want to go and make every single component within sub groups of a group unique.
The reason I want to do this is because, I want to currently make a copy of my table top platform as you see in the photo and I want to edit one side by side from the other so that I can visually see the things I want to change from my current one. I can't edit it though because I have to make every component unique within that group in order to do that. Is there a easier way?
Hope this makes sense. Tried to explain it the best I could.
