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Copying a component with all sketches and extrusions to another Part Studio
ProApe
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Hello,
is there a way to copy a part with all sketches, extrusions and other steps to another Part Studio?
I am familiar with Derived, but this method only copies the part itself, meaning that it can only be edited in the original Part Studio, whereas I would like to edit it in the Part Studio to which it was copied.
Kind regards,
ProApe
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You can literally copy the part studio, which creates an independent but similar - until you start changing it - set of features. This is not usually the right answer.
You can branch the history and have two (or more) different flavors of the same thing.
You can make configurations.
As a side note, you can derive with sketches, but they aren't editable. This can be another way of having more than one connected approach to modeling.
Simon Gatrall | Staff Mechanical Engineer | Carbon, Inc.
I can copy the part studio but I don't succeed in pasting it.
In the same document you can right click on the tab and duplicate the part studio. Then you can keep it in the same document, or move to another.
Simon Gatrall | Staff Mechanical Engineer | Carbon, Inc.
If I duplicate it it is only derived and I can't modify it in that part studio!
And what is the purpose of copying?
If you duplicate the part studio (which doesn't have any dependencies like derive or in context), it is fully independent - there's no derive involved.
Again, usually what you want is branching or configurations.
Simon Gatrall | Staff Mechanical Engineer | Carbon, Inc.
It might be helpful to know what it is that’s trying to be accomplished by what you’re asking for. The “why” if you will.
You are right indeed!
What I want to accomplish? I want to modify a screw, keeping the original one (M8 to M10) and for that purpose I wanted to copy it into another part studio and finally it worked.
Configurations I have heard of, branching not.
For something like a screw, the first question is why not use the standard content? If it's something that's not included, I would do that as a configuration.
Simon Gatrall | Staff Mechanical Engineer | Carbon, Inc.
What do you mean by standard content?
I didn't have any problem to construct the screw with the ThreadCreator, but I had first designed everything in one single studio, and afterwards rebuild every part in its own studio, but as the screw shouldn't first be modified I wanted to use the existing one. I have resolved the question by duplicating the original studio containing all the parts and deleting everything not in relation with the screw,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPydcq_D6oM
Simon Gatrall | Staff Mechanical Engineer | Carbon, Inc.