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samov

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i've been copying groups around ... and it causes mass objects inside to copy elsewhere...

 it's like the smaller groups within the group is having INVERTED AXIS...  moves sometimes opposite to the others...

PLEASE HELP...  ETA 6 hours til project end :D 

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samov

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the project has ended... managed to arrive on time... :D

so i found out that having 2-3 mass objects in a Group, with another nested group inside.

when o copy the mass objects go crazy...  also managed to discover that using "copy" and "move + tick the copy checkbox on top" are different. The problem manifests itself LESS frequently  when using "move+checkbox"

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TesterSH

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I just found out the same issue today.  When I copied or arrayed my group of columns, the bracing ended up in the negative y direction and the columns ended up in the proper positive x direction.  How did you get around it??  I don't want to have to place each column and bracing set...way too time consuming. 

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samov

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well... i managed to solve it ... for the time being....

here is what i did ... in theory...

first...

create a group with some elements ... then another group and so on... depending on how many you actually need...

BEFORE you make THE BIG group ... containing the other smaller ones, make sure that

1. It is made up of ONLY SMALLER GROUPS.... ( NOT A FEW GROUPS AND A SINGLE LONELY OBJECT). So BIG GROUP = SMALL GROUP 1+ SMALL GROUP 2 + ONLY GROUPS ..... NOT big group = small group 1 + small group 2 + a single object ( a wall )

note: if you have a single object... just add it to an existing group OR create a separate group just for it.

2. All the smaller groups MUST have the axis ( the XY axis you get when you group objects) ALIGNED so all small groups have THE SAME X and Y pointing the same way....

3. Create the big group. 

3. the problem SHOULD be fixed now ... :D happy reviting

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