Moving a document to another document

Henk_de_Vlaam

I'm trying to move/integrate all tabs of a document (in)to anorther document. 

Unfortunately I don't succeed. Moving is possible, except a random one of them. He, and so the document, remains. So the whole document cannot be moved.

Is this not possible or is there a way?

bruce_williams

Here is workflow if I understand what you want to do.

See the image above.  Toggle the Tab Manager (lower left corner); from there you can manage multiple tabs, folders (including moving to another document).  Just note that you cannot move ALL tabs, so just make an empty tab to leave.

3dcad

Onshape should automatically update linked documents when moving stuff between docs but of course you need to update links so they are not pointing to deleted document. I move stuff a lot between docs and I haven't had to recreate a single mate.

ps. I agree that Onshape could confirm and remove existing doc when all tabs are moved but creating new empty tab only takes few sec so this is not too high on my priority list.

bruce_williams

bruce_williams

Here is workflow if I understand what you want to do.

See the image above.  Toggle the Tab Manager (lower left corner); from there you can manage multiple tabs, folders (including moving to another document).  Just note that you cannot move ALL tabs, so just make an empty tab to leave.

Henk_de_Vlaam

 Bruce, thank you for this trick.

It's a pitty that one has to use this workaround.
In my opinion it should be better when all tabs of a document are selected for moving OS asks for acceptence and then removing the (empty) document after the moving of the tabs.

Beside that, I have to do some extra work in the target document Kamermeubels. See the text in the attachment below at the red couch.



Is that extra work correct or am I doing something wrong?

3dcad

Onshape should automatically update linked documents when moving stuff between docs but of course you need to update links so they are not pointing to deleted document. I move stuff a lot between docs and I haven't had to recreate a single mate.

ps. I agree that Onshape could confirm and remove existing doc when all tabs are moved but creating new empty tab only takes few sec so this is not too high on my priority list.

raj_Onshape

If you want to move all tabs you can simply do a 'Copy workspace' which creates a copy of the original document. Can you share what you are planning to achieve by moving all tabs ?

3dcad

@ptrajkumar

For example you have shared document 'teamwork' and you wan't to test something before putting it out to the team. If succeed you then move all tabs from 'private test' to 'teamwork'. So it's not a copy but combining of docs.

owen_sparks

ptrajkumar said:

If you want to move all tabs you can simply do a 'Copy workspace' which creates a copy of the original document. Can you share what you are planning to achieve by moving all tabs ?

@ptrajkumar

(a) I might design a widget in a new doc and later decide that I want to be able to easily reuse it, so I'll move it into my "common components" doc so I have an easy to remember place to derive from.  To keep things clean I wish to move it, not copy it so I don't end up with orphaned off copies potentially at different revisions.

(b) Building on that, derive (as it stands today) just gives a big long list, so to make things easier to find I have a several "common components" docs, one for housings, one for hardware etc.  Once derive has a few more search / filter / tag functions I'll want to combine all the "common" docs into one.

Cheers,

Owen S.