Reusable component groups across files

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DirkDigital started this discussion in General Discussion

Is there a way to extract groups as a reusable component group and import them into other files?
I'm thinking of a library of part sets like minifies, trees, cars, furniture and so on to compose complex scenes. If I would change the base component, all placed instances within a scene would update accordingly. Bonus would be a possibility to overwrite certain characteristics of a component like the color of single parts per placed instance. This would allow to individualize the component, but still keep it in sync with the base component.

I searched the interface and forum but found no info on this. Thanks for any hints.

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Sealund

You can import models into models so my suggestion is that you delete everything except the group and then save as a new model, then you have the group as a model which can be imported into any other model.

Scrubs

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You can currently only append models using the import menu but not link them. That would require major changes to the code. I do not say that it will never happen but it is not really priority.

DirkDigital

Thank's. I already did importing external model files, which is then a group. Linking between file is not necessary. What I miss for my workflow is linked groups within a model. Change one group, the others change as well.

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