Copy parts from assembly in a version

brucebartlett

A workflow I've tried a couple of times is finding parts in an assembly on a version then attempting to copy to dump into another assembly. But this doesn't seem to work. Any idea's why? 

john_mcclary

Most likely because you are viewing a version (view only), it may not allow copy, because it is technically an editing command.

Notice between the two images here, the one which is a version is missing the highlighted option on the context menu





You will still need to use the insert dialogue and set it to a version.

billy2

Seems like you should be allowed to copy that version to another document and it remains that version.

brucebartlett

 @john_mcclary yes it is because the version is view only, but initially made sense to grab a group of parts do a copy and have them available to paste into another document at the source version. @billy2 I think this seems like a logical workflow too. 

What I ended up doing was branching the source doc, copying the group of parts and pasting into a new dummy assembly, switching the parts to ref the version, copying the dummy assembly by RMB on the tab, pasting the assembly in the target document, inserting pasted assembly in target assembly and moving parts into the target assembly then returning to the source document to delete the branch to keep things tidy and finally delete the dummy assy from the target. Surely there could be an easier way?   In hindsight, it may have been quicker to just insert the piece parts and re-mate but sometimes a lot of time can be saved by copying from other designs.