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Duplicate Assembly instance or Sketch "in place"
hoolito
Member Posts: 37 PRO
Hello,
I like to have each design iteration of a part that got prototyped visible in the assembly. That way I have let's say 4 versions of it and I can hide/show to compare any 2, any 3, or all of them at once in a very simple way. AFAIK this cannot be doen with Version Compare.
The way I do this in Onshape is whenever I'm about to modify, I make a duplicate of the instance and lock one to a previous version.
But I wonder if there's a way to simply duplicate it "in place" in one go.
If I do Cmd-C/Cmd-V, the new instance get's dropped randomly, then I need to create a constraint.. which takes time… sometimes snap mode does not work… etc
Ideally, I just want a duplicate, unmated, in-place, in 1 click ….
Kind regards,
Julian
Answers
Hello all,
I've just added "or sketch" to the question, because I see it's actually the same behavior.
If I do "Copy Sketch" and then "Paste Sketch" in the same plane, the result is again randomly positioning curves (I suspect it is because it loses references to external things, like Fix constraints or dimensioning to other planes)
(((((But WHY? Why is the default behavior to not recreate the relationships to the same objects if they exist?)))))
So my question here would also be if there is another way (Transform > Copy In Place doesn't work…) to copy a Sketch "in place" within a Part Studio