Automatic Creat Multiple Groups From Faces (Faces To Groups Tool)

Faces To Groups helps to automatically create separate groups from loose shapes. This tool is used only in rare cases. Here 3dshouse provides this tool for nesting implementations with the Abf Plugin.

In this example the Faces To Groups Tool will automatically create a series of Groups to export via nesting with Abf.

Why you need it for nesting

• Abf (and most CNC nesting plugins) only treat each closed group/component as one cuttable panel — a face left as loose geometry is invisible to the nester.
• The real reason loose faces resist hand-grouping is SketchUp’s “sticky” geometry: raw coplanar faces and shared edges fuse back together the moment you finish selecting, even across hidden tags/layers — only wrapping each face in a group breaks that bond. Tags never separate geometry in SketchUp; only groups and components do.
• That is exactly what this tool automates: it wraps each face together with its bounding edges so the panel stays watertight. If you grouped a face without its surrounding edges, the leftover loose edges would re-stick the neighbouring faces and the resulting group would have no face at all when exploded for nesting.

How to use:

• Step 1: Triple-click or press Ctrl+A inside the group/context to select all the faces you want isolated.
• Step 2: click icons and the plugin will automatically batch-create one Group per face.

This tool ships inside the Dynamic Sketchup plugin and works on any current SketchUp release (the 2026 line included); it relies only on grouping behaviour that has been unchanged for years, so there is no version-specific catch.