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Components

Components group top-level elements — planes, features, bodies, drawings — into named, nestable folders in the Elements pane. Grouping is organizational: it never changes geometry.

  • The pane header's + button adds a component; right-click a component for New component inside.
  • A new component is selected and becomes active (marked with an accent-colored dot): elements you create land inside it. Selecting a component activates it; click the Document row to go back to creating at the root.
  • Contents indent under the component; the triangle collapses/expands them.
  • Drag any top-level row onto a component to move it there (list or graph; a name tag follows the cursor; or use right-click → Move to). Drop on the Document row to move it back out. Components drag into each other to nest.
  • Hiding a component hides everything inside it, nested components included.
  • Deleting a component keeps its contents — they move to its parent.
  • Export a component straight to STL or STEP from its right-click menu: every body inside it (and its nested components) is written to one file, named after the component.

Units​

Each component can override the length and angle units (select it and use the Component units pickers). Contents inherit through the chain: sketch override → component → parent components → document default.

Graph view​

The Elements pane's graph view is one element per line, with the relationships drawn beside them as vertical lanes — the way gitk draws commits. A component's contents string down the lane it opens, so its extent reads straight off the graph.

The type filter at the bottom of the pane applies to both the list and the graph, so hiding a category (say, sketches) thins out either view the same way.

Right-click any row for the same context menu its list row offers — edit the element, add it to a drawing, export a body or component, nest a component, move it to a component, roll back to it, or delete it.

Drag a row onto a component to file it there, the same as in the list. An element's inputs stay above it and its outputs stay below it.

Rolling back​

Right-click any element in the Elements pane and open the Rollback submenu:

  • Rollback to here — see the model as it was just after that element: everything that depends on it (the operations built on it and their results) is hidden, but the element itself stays.
  • Rollback to just before here — hide that element too, so you see the model as it was just before it was added.

Hidden elements are suppressed in the viewport and faded in the pane, without touching your own show/hide toggles. Independent branches stay put, so this follows the element graph rather than the order things were created. While rolled back, a status line at the top of the pane shows where you are; click Done to roll forward again.