This article shows you how to create and work with product components
This is still a BETA feature.
The behavior of this feature might change in the future.
Differences between components and groups
At first glance, components and asset groups seem similar, but they serve vastly different purposes.
Groups allow you to group several assets, such as tables and chairs, etc. together and move them around or rotate them around a common origin. Each group is its own thing that you can adjust freely without affecting anything else that is not part of it.
Components are also arrangements of several assets. But they act quite differently.
In the same way that assets (for example, a chair) in an Archilogic floor plan are instances of the same product, component instances within an Archilogic floor plan are tied to a source component.
If you create a component once, you can reuse its instances as many times as you wish in the same floor plan. The benefit of a component is that you can adjust the source component and see your changes reflected wherever you have used the instances of said component within the same floor plan. This means that you could, for example, replace the chair within the source component, and wherever you used the instance of this component, you would see the new chair where the old one used to be.
At the moment, components are only linked within the same floor plan!
You can copy and paste a component from one floor plan into a different floor plan, but there won't be a connection between components of different floor plans.
Create components
There are two ways to create components:
Create a component from a group
To create a component from an existing group, you have to first left-click the group to select it.
Once selected, click the grey Convert to component button in the inspector panel on the right side of the window.
Create a component from a selection
To create a component from several ungrouped assets, you have to first select them by left-clicking them one by one while pressing and holding the Shift key on your keyboard.
Once you've selected 2 or more assets, click the grey Convert to component button in the inspector panel on the right side of the window.
Name your component
Regardless of which method you choose, a new model will open upon clicking the Create component button. This modal allows you to set the name of the component. By default, there is already a name proposal in the field. You can also select a Subcategory value for the new component (for example: Workstation).
Left-click the blue Create button to complete this action.
Edit components
To edit a component, you have to double-click it.
This will open the component editing menu. In here, you can rearrange or replace assets.
In the inspector panel on the right, you can also change the name or the subcategory of the component.
Once you're happy with your changes, you can press the blue Update button to save them and exit the component editing menu.
If you wish to exit the component editing menu without saving, you can simply press the grey Cancel button.
