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Copying part with all sketches and extrusions, in the same parts studio?
erik_colloran
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I want to duplicate a part with all its sketches and extrusions within the same parts studio. I don't want to do a transformation because I need to go into the part and make some changes. Surely there is a way to do this, but I can't seem to find it?
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How do you want the original and copy to be related? Will they both be used together in assemblies? How much will be different between the two parts?
Configurations or branching are really good ways to handle these kinds of design intents.
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I don't want them to be related at beyond the original copying. I need to make a bunch of changes after that. It would just be a huge time save to not have to go through and copy each sketch and the redo each extrusion.
If you are creating an entirely new part, I'm not sure you need it to be in the same part studio so you could just duplicate the part studio.
One could build two (similar) parts based on (almost) the same set of sketches in the same part studio. No need to copy. One could also consider making configured parts, if they are similar and only distinguishable in certain details.