Thanks for the clarification. If the groups must be made in Poser (by individual selection in the grouping tool) then the Setup room just isn't worth the trouble for my purposes. The grouping tool is too fussy; too easy to make unrecoverable misclicks. So I'll stick with the old method of importing the parts as separate objects, building the hierarchy in Poser, and creating the fig from the hier, without ever touching the Setup room. This method works reliably, and lets me do most of the "microscopic" stuff in Amapi, where it's easier to handle. I was just sort of hoping that the Setup room could make things faster instead of slower! ... sigh ....

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