Groups help with organizing a project
Groups are created in multiple ways, some manual, some automatic.
To group entries manually
Groups are useful to perform certain commands on several parts at once. Rather than select each part every time you wish to perform some action, you can group them and apply the action to the group.
Note: Only parts and slices can be grouped.
- Right-click the section header, such as
Parts or
Slices, and choose
Create new group from the context menu.
- Provide a name for the new group.
- Drag the entries you want grouped into the new group.
Tip: If a group of parts is locked, the 3D packing routines consider the group as a single part. Intersecting parts in a locked group will not trigger a collision detection.
To create groups automatically
Several functions within Netfabb produce groups:
Adding parts using the advanced file import:
- For parts which, on import, require stitching and have the stitching performed during import, you can select to have them put into a group.
- Using the import to create duplicates of parts, duplicates can be loaded in groups.
Cutting parts
- Splitting parts may be set to put the pieces one group per part that is cut.
Cutting parts
- Splitting parts may be set to put the pieces one group per part that is cut.
List Labeling
- The labeled clones created by list labeling are put into a group.