Decompose symbols?

[RMorse]

How do I go about decomposing symbols so that I can alter them for a specific instance? I don't want that particular symbol to be a symbol in the drawing I'm currently working on.

All the various things I've tried (decompose, convert, unlock, etc.) don't seem to have any affect on it.

-- Richard --

[Ray Libby]

Ctrl+K

Covert to Group and it will no longer be a symbol.

[RMorse]

Thanks - that worked! It would have been great for the "help" info to have something on how to undo symbols....

-- Rich --

[jan15]

Yes, the name Convert-to-Group is a little hard to connect with what it does. It sounds like it would do what the Group command does. It used to be called Symbol-to-Group, which I thought was easier to figure out. I guess Convert-Symbol-to-Group would be too long.

[ccroft]

Maybe they changed the name when it gained the ability to also change PIO to group.

Rich: this can come in handy when a PIO just does not have the parameter settings you need.

Will this be the beginning of another huge discussion on naming and grammar?

[timmysmith]

Thank you Ray Libby, I was having problems scaling a nested symbol. Symbols within symbols will not scale correctly and when you try to render the object it gets all mashed up. I double clicked my symbol and 3d edited then CTRL + K 'ed all the symbols within my larger symbol. It works now and I don't have to remodel the whole object at a different scale which would have cost me a bout 5 hours. I can now texture my nurbs surfaces inside the symbol by class attributes. Yesterday I was blowing steam out of my ears but now I am grinning like a cheshire! Luvely Jubbly !

Tim

[timmysmith]

Dear Users,

In fact I discovered on my machine when scaling a symbol if you CMD+K the whole symbol after CMD+k' ing all the nested symbols, then scale the group then create a new symbol of the scaled group it solves the rendering issues of scaled symbols.

TIm