Copying a group does no copy as group

[gearsawe]

One annoyance is the ability to not copy groups.
see attached. So I have a group 3 parts with many processes.
If I copy the group and paste it, or even just say duplicated, it will will copy them as 3 separate items not grouped.

Yes I can regroup them after the copy but it can get very tedious to fix when there are a few part to each group and you make 48 copies. 3parts with 48 copy becomes 144 items you must regroup together before then can be arranged.

[horst.w]

To select items for grouping you can use in the ModelsWindow (left upper side) :

select the first item above
press Ctrl + Shift
click to the last item below

that marks the items between them as selected and then you can check on in menue Group Selection (Ctrl + G)
With only pressing Shift or Ctrl you can attache skipped items or unselect them.

I hope it helps a little bit.

horst.w
GER

[gearsawe]

yep I do use the shortcuts. The main problem is when I have the 3 Part Grouped Object and it is copied it does not stay grouped. I then have to select 3 items at a time and group them before they can be arranged.

I would assume if I select a group and copy it it would stay as a group.
The way it works now does not make any sense. It would be like copying and object is a CAD program and it breaks it apart into individual faces which would then have to combine back together after the copy.

[horst.w]

Yes, I see it, you are right, but this does not help at the moment.

Yesterday I had printed also group wise. The first group I had arranged ready to print, then <Edit> <Select all> and <Group Selected> (not really needed). The grouped / selected items I duplicated 5 times so that there were 6 sets of the print objects I needed.
The Copy-function works on the X-axis-direction, therefore the items must be arranged along the Y-axis.

To hold the Group-property would be a nice feature as a standard function when items are copied and when not needed there are only two mouseclicks to eliminate it - selective - .

H.