Bake Collection Of Derived Parts?

NikNYC

Derived parts are convenient for taking a vastly complicated parametric model full of historical baggage and starting over in a new file. This avoids having to export each of dozens of items to disk to import them. But a derived part can't be fully edited and parts of it stick around like mate connectors. Total confusion. I want a new clean model to deal with free of parametric baggage. It bogs way down especially on an iPhone. How do I "bake" the derived parts as if they are imported?

I guess it's mainly a bug about mate connectors hanging in the air coming in via derived that I cannot hide or delete:

That's throwing me off that I perhaps cannot edit at all but indeed I can move and edit actual parts within the derived collection.

NeilCooke

The mate connector can be hidden by hiding the derived feature (or pressing shift+p). Derived parts have no feature "baggage" so I'm not sure what the issue you are facing here? You can always export (store in tab) and import again to get a "clean" model, but then it won't update if you want to make changes.

NikNYC

I guess I can after all export dozens of parts at once via mere multiple selection, OK. 

There's no shift-P on iPhone though. If shift-P works then how about allowing it like usual (non-derived) in the pop-up contextual menu?

NeilCooke

Your image above is from the web browser, which threw me - you can still hide the mate connector by hiding the derived feature (select the mate connector, two-finger click > hide derived).