Object Layers in Layout: Newbie question

[tshillig]

I've been tinkering around with LW for a bit, and Layout has been frustrating me immensely. Is there a way to just load an entire object into Layout and ignore the layers so I can edit the entire object? I hate parenting all the layers for 15 different multilayer objects. I would just copy all the object's layers in modeler into a single layer, but then I can't edit the model very well anymore. Is there a "Edit Object as a Whole" button :) Any suggestions?

Thank you for the help,
Tyler Shillig

[evenflcw]

whats so hard about parenting? It's just dragging and dropping... 15 objects, thats 15 shift+clicks and drag and drops, takes under a minute.

Anyhow, perhaps you could assign parts to help keep pieces separate? It should also be possible to write a script that'll automatically cut'n'paste all layers to the first while assigning parts names arbitrarily or mimics the layer names.