Hi Michael,

> If I understand your new steps correctly there isn't any step involved for adding an object as was described in the original bug report, your steps are about running distribute on objects that are sub objects contained within another group, is that correct?

> So that's a different bug than adding an object.

Yes & yes.

I was unable to reproduce the behavior and record the steps to do so for the first issue (which may have been my error). You are correct, this issue is caused by different actions. When I saw more odd behavior, I documented it & thought that it might be related.

Thanks for the explanation of the new issue, it paints more of the picture and makes sense to me. Since much of MoI is opaque to me it is somewhat difficult to know if odd behavior is an indication of a bug that you'll want to address or a smaller issue limited to a few scripts. I appreciate being able to raise either one of them AND your good feedback about what's going on. Problem is that so much of MoI is just so polished, even in betas, that it is quite a surprise when odd behavior rears its head!

> when an object that is contained within a group is modified it means the top level group object gets reconstructed. [...]

That's something that is probably not obvious to most users (& probably needn't be) but it is a good insight for scripts that loop over a list of groups.

I typically use styles to segment the components of my models and have been experimenting with using groups for this purpose. Maybe some of this segmentation is more appropriate for the folder concept you have also mentioned thinking about.

--Larry