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Old 1st April 2008, 02:26 AM   #1
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I am having difficulty creating groups that are nested inside other groups. The highest group level is easy to create. But if you want to create another group under this, you can not just select the items in the group and press the group button again. This is because you need to be in group select mode to group the objects, and by default the software will select every object in the group. The only way I found to create subgroups was by dragging one group inside another one. This can be problematic if you have all ready groups all the objects into a single group.

Also, how do you un-group just a select number of objects inside the group. In short, I need to bump some objects out of the group (bring them up one group level).

Please help!

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Old 1st April 2008, 05:05 AM   #2
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Tools > Hierarchy View

In Object mode, you can drag and drop objects between groups in the tree view. You'll need to toggle back to group mode to move or create groups.
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Old 1st April 2008, 05:29 AM   #3
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I went ahead and put this up, too:
http://www.independentdeveloper.com/...eparent-object

Its a plugin that gives you a pop-up dialog where you can type in the names of an object or group to change its parent. I wrote this ages ago as the older versions of AC3D didn't let you drag and drop in the Hierarchy view (either that, or I never figured out how, lol ).

I still use it occassionally, so it's been updated for the current version of AC3D.
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Old 2nd April 2008, 01:15 AM   #4
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Hey Lisa,
Your plugin works great. Our object list is so long, that dragging the objects around in Hierarchy view is too cumbersome.

I still do not now how to address the problem with creating child groups nested inside a parent group. Any suggestions here?
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Old 2nd April 2008, 09:18 AM   #5
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Try this:

- Create the child group at the root of the scene.
- Drag the objects you want into the child group.
- Reparent the child group to the parent group to move it into the tree.
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Old 2nd April 2008, 11:38 AM   #6
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I tried your method. That is a good way of doing it. Thanks!
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Old 5th April 2008, 08:02 PM   #7
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ty Lisa- I was having the sam problem, I made my toilet a single object and now I need to fix the inner bowl and need to ungroup them to do so, lol
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