Yet another Linking question

I'm a little stuck..

I made myself a bed, using 5 prims, since I have a small home and can only place very little in it.

And I am trying to link the bed base, the back..the pillos..and the covers.

I got it to link, but problem is..once I place it, it doesn't stay linked..and I haveto pick it up one at a time again..

Is there something I am missing with keeping the stuff together?

Are you sure you are actually LINKING it as opposed to picking up all the pieces as one piece? After selecting all the pieces, be sure to go to TOOLS, then LINK.

Did you select all the objects you wanted to link and then selected the Link option from the menu? You can´t have the edit selected object checkbox on in the toolbox.

no I didn't, I'm pretty new at this hehe

Gunna see if I can link it from what you guys sayed.

and it worked!

hehe yay..

Remember that trick for later, though. The fact that you can select a bunch of individual items and linksets up all at once, and take a copy of them into inventory as a single inventory item, is invaluable later on in building. It allows you to place homes complete with furnsihings, and to still be able to re-arrange the furniture after it's done. It also allows you to pick up and place collections of things that have too many prims or are too far apart to consider linking.

If you are in 'edit' mode whn you place a collection of unlinked things, the full collection remains selected, and can be positioned and rotated as a unit until you de-select it. Very handy to know.

Also, when you take an unlinked collection into inventory like that, the root prim of the last linkset selected determines how it is named in your inventory. You can rename it after it's in inventory, assuming there are no 'no-modify' parts in it.