2009-01-16 05:52 AM
2009-01-21 03:35 PM
Keith wrote:I think if modules and groups were combined to some extent, with in-place editing, it could become very powerful. You could have the choice to set them up as either 'component' objects / assemblies, or one-off groups on-the-fly.
....Maybe modules would be the answer (if we had 'in place' editing!)
2009-01-22 12:46 AM
kliment wrote:You miss the point.
You can do exactly what you want now! When you make new groups you must have groups enabled. Thus AC keeps group hierarchy. When you ungroup with groups enabled you have this hierarchy working backwards.
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I think groups work very well now! Complaints usually come from people, who don't know all the tricks with working with groups.
2009-01-22 06:37 AM
Stuart wrote:We don't miss the point. We happen to disagree with you and the importance of your wish.
You miss the point.
2009-01-22 06:39 AM
Peter wrote:Peter,Keith wrote:I think if modules and groups were combined to some extent, with in-place editing, it could become very powerful. You could have the choice to set them up as either 'component' objects / assemblies, or one-off groups on-the-fly.
....Maybe modules would be the answer (if we had 'in place' editing!)
2009-01-22 07:06 AM
Erika wrote:Kliment did and looking at your earlier post I think you don't quite realise what Stuart wants either.Stuart wrote:We don't miss the point. We happen to disagree with you and the importance of your wish.
You miss the point.
2009-01-22 07:25 AM
2009-01-22 07:57 AM
Erika wrote:To pick you up on this point, what if you have to individually pick 20 items that you have previously grouped, but now can't as they are part of a master group (and you have suspended the groups), and you dont want to ungroup that master group as you'll end up with 100 other individual items that you will have to select, one at a time, to re-group them back into the master group?.
I do understand. For all that I am a devotee of the grouping feature, I haven't found a need for this. When I want to do what you describe, I can suspend groups, select the elements of the one or more groups that I want to remove or delete and ungroup. When grouping is enabled, the nested grouping remains intact.
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2009-01-22 08:28 AM
Erika wrote:That's fine if you want to move or delete individual elements, but what if you want to do that to the whole of one of the sub-groups? - could be dozens of individual elements.
I do understand. For all that I am a devotee of the grouping feature, I haven't found a need for this. When I want to do what you describe, I can suspend groups, select the elements of the one or more groups that I want to remove or delete and ungroup. When grouping is enabled, the nested grouping remains intact.
Erika wrote:
It may just be that I don't have to do this that much. Murphy's law, that will be how I will spend the next 3 days. .
Erika wrote:I think it is one of these "It would be nice" wishes but is certainly not essential for me at least.
I am not against the wish, just the way I have used the program, it's not a priority. I'm not ruling out that should it be implemented. who knows, I might find it indispensable.