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Import whole document into another document?

guy_taylor
guy_taylor Member Posts: 8 ✭
edited July 2016 in Community Support
Hello I have one component in one document which Id like to import into another document. How would I go about this? 

Thanks

Guy

Answers

  • brucebartlett
    brucebartlett Member, OS Professional, Mentor, User Group Leader Posts: 2,148 PRO
    edited July 2015
    No inter document relations yet.

    You can RMB on a part studio tab "Copy to clipboard" and paste into a new document from the bottom left " + "
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  • lougallo
    lougallo Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp, pcbaevp Posts: 2,020 image
    edited July 2015
    @guy_taylor We currently do not have a feature to import an entire document or reference another document but definitely have plans to do so.  Currently you can export out and import in or do a tab copy as @brucebartlett suggested.  If you only have one part in a Part Studio, the tab copy is going to be the fastest.  Otherwise you can place a single part into an assembly and export out a Parasolid and back into your other document.  For now we have some work-arounds but we hope to soon have more options for these workflows.
    Lou Gallo
    Sr. Director of Product Definition. UX and Support
  • viru
    viru Member, Developers Posts: 619 ✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2015
    @guy_taylor You have to use "copy to clipboard" option to copy the part studio ( Document from which you have component)

    and "paste tab" option to paste in other document where you wanted.

    I hope in near future Onshape have a feature to import an entire document or reference another document.


  • guy_taylor
    guy_taylor Member Posts: 8 ✭
    Thanks all much appreciated. Loving the forum help very good. :-)
  • peter_hall
    peter_hall Member Posts: 196 ✭✭✭
    @guy_taylor  I so agree, the forum is a fantastic learning tool for design in general and OS use in particular.
  • engineering_deltap
    engineering_deltap Member Posts: 13 PRO
    lougallo said:
    @guy_taylor We currently do not have a feature to import an entire document or reference another document but definitely have plans to do so.  Currently you can export out and import in or do a tab copy as @brucebartlett suggested.  If you only have one part in a Part Studio, the tab copy is going to be the fastest.  Otherwise you can place a single part into an assembly and export out a Parasolid and back into your other document.  For now we have some work-arounds but we hope to soon have more options for these workflows.
    Hello Lou,
    Any update on this 2015 wish? I would like to "move" a complete multi tabbed document in to a document that references it.
    @brucebartlett
  • MBartlett21
    MBartlett21 Member, OS Professional, Developers Posts: 2,064 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @engineering_deltap
    You can right-click on the top-level assembly and click move to document
    mb - draftsman - also FS author: View FeatureScripts
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