Hi Nick, no confusion here, I get what you mean.

But can you thnk of any other commands similar to that, which would seem to need a tune-up in behavior to work well with groups?

- Michael

>can you thnk of any other commands similar to that..

Personally, nothing comes to mind. Thanks.

How about scale?

Actually, pretty much all of them.

Mirror = Mirror entire group to one group, or mirror all individual obects within the group.

Move = as individuals or all.

Rotate = etc, etc

Etc.

Hi Burr,

> How about scale?

Well, scale applies the same scale factor around the same origin point to all the selected objects.

So for example, take 3 individual boxes that overlap each other.

Select them all and run scale, notice how they all scale in the same way, the same as if they were connected?

If you now boolean union those things together into one single object and then do a scale on just that single object, you'll get the same kind of scaled result.

Most of the transforms are like this, they perform the same transformation to all the selected objects so they all stay in their same relative positions... The same with Move, Copy, Rotate, Mirror.... Align is the only one that does not maintain relative positions so far.

- Michael

A great rotate tool. Utilizing MoI's awsome point picking functions, You could select a group, then have a second command part that asked to use say a "3 point picking method" to select the individual faces that would be included as the target reference of the rotate, then move to the rotation pick points and/or axis part of the command, then individually, the selected objects react from their respective selected 3 point picks and rotate, per scale, to the desired point. A great scene managment tool for designing a certain set to face to a particular location.

Yes I understand. But the option to have it react differently. ie; If they were actually being scaled as a single object but all at the same time. So put a few boxes near each other, then scale them and they would grow "Through" each other. A different kind of scale.

Same diff with all the others was what I was refering to. I guess it's a bit different than what was being discussed. I had already misunderstood Nick's question! :O

At first I thought you meant that a group that is mirrored should automatically form a new group. Like mirror group 'Leg' and you get a new group 'Leg Mirror' or something like that.

But now i think you mean something like Components in Sketchup? Open a component, transform what's inside and all the copies of this components transform the same way?

I dont know sketchup, but thats was I was refering to for all the other commands.

But for nick, and the align tool, this is what it does now and he is looking for that tool to act as a group, not individuals.