How to move multiple components under 1 component to simplify layout

Component Modeling
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I have a pallet with a bunch of components to indicate raw material feed in the layout.

However, the amount of CAD data is making the layout heavy.

How can I move all these separate components under one component and simplify the geometry? These parts are just illustrative.

Cannot find the right tools under Modeling.

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Thanks!

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Here’s a helper addon for cases like this: Merge Components - Extensions and Python Add-ons - Visual Components - The Simulation Community

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Thanks, that’s a nice addon.

Although 1/3 of the times it seems to completely delete part of the components and other 1/3 it creates the component, but all materials get overwritten :wink: Sometimes it does work nicely though.

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To simplify I found another solution where I went back to each raw material component and collapsed, cilindrified them, then recreated the pattern.