topic Re: Cannot get components group to work... in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Cannot get components group to work...

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:41:06 GMT

am I missing something ?

Re: Cannot get components group to work...

TrippyLighting — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 01:47:34 GMT

I've only ever use that command to group things in the timeline and that has usually worked.

Honestly I am not sure what I would expect to happen when selecting components in the viewport. What did you expect to happen ?

Re: Cannot get components group to work...

Beyondforce — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 02:24:16 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

In order to use the Create Group, you must Right Click the selected components on the Viewport and choose Create Group 🙂

I hope the following screencast will help you.

Best Regards.

Ben.

Re: Cannot get components group to work...

jeff_strater — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:06:41 GMT

I admit that this is a very misleading context menu item. As the other responders indicate, Create Group is for creating a timeline group. It really should not be shown for browser component selections... However, why this happens is because when you select components in the browser, Fusion also cross-selects the features in the timeline:

Fusion does this so that some operations that can be applied to either a component object or a component feature (timeline) can both be invoked. In this case, it is just misleading, since you do have to select the timeline feature in the browser for a timeline group.

BTW, the feature that I suspect you really wanted here (browser folders) is something that we are starting to work on now. Coming soon!

Jeff

Re: Cannot get components group to work...

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 05:18:51 GMT

@TrippyLighting @jeff_strater

I thought it will make a "layer group" in a fast way

and make it into

what is to write expression / name for a layer / groupe with components inside ?

Re: Cannot get components group to work...

Beyondforce — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 05:43:46 GMT

Hi @jeff_strater,

Have you thought about creating a new "Create Component" with a different name like "Create Folder" with a Folder icon?
A component is essentially a container (a folder) for Bodies, features or other components. I personally using components as folders as well to group and organize other component, and the only thing cosmetically is missing for me, is the option to change the icon to a folder 🙂

Best Regards.

Ben

Re: Cannot get components group to work...

TrippyLighting — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:53:34 GMT

Hat would be an assembly.

Re: Cannot get components group to work...

jeff_strater — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 14:31:37 GMT

@TrippyLighting brings up a good question: What are you trying to achieve here? Is it just to help organize your browser, or do you really want to create a sub-assembly that includes these components? Here is the Idea Station suggestion for browser folders: we-seriously-need-folders-in-the-browser. This is the project that is starting development now. It will let you create "folders" or "groups" in the browser of similar items (bodies, or components). But, that organization only affects the browser. It will not affect the behavior of the design at all. A sub-assembly, though, has a larger meaning. Moving a sub-assembly component will move the entire component tree. A component has its own origin, and can own sketches, work geometry, other components. Browser folders will have none of those capabilities.

You can already, today, create a new component, and drag existing components into that as child components to create a sub-assembly (with some restrictions).

Jeff