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Best practice - Moving branch to new document
Lars_Lørup
Member Posts: 2 PRO
I've been working on alternatives to one of our current parts as branches of a part studio. We have gotten to the stage where we would like to move these branches to separate onshape documents.
This is because our working practice is to have a separate onshape document per part and these new parts will coexist with their own new part #. (this setup is probably due to old habits from other softwares, but it's how we decided to structure our files).
Does anyone have any "best practice" on how to move a branch to it's own part studio? I still want to retain the old part studio with the old main branch. My first thought was to copy the onshape document, make the branch the new main and delete other branches in the copied workspace. I could also delete the now obsolete branches from the original part studio. I am not sure if this is the best way forward - curious to hear if others have similar challenges and perhaps thoughts on how to proceed?
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When you copy a workspace you don't copy the branches/version history. You just copy the state of the current selected branch of when you copy the workspace, without a history tree. This seems to be quite a good solution for my issue, but still open to hear others thoughts.
You can also use the "move to document" option to move a tab to it's own document from the branch you want to "split off". This way the old branch is still there in the old doc but ends with the tab being moved out so you can see the history if you need to…
The new document will basically be the same as if you had done a "copy workspace".