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How to make a component independent? (Fusion TP Mac)

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mike
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How to make a component independent? (Fusion TP Mac)

I'm running Fusion TP on the Mac (Thanks!) and have both an array of identical components and some hand duplicated components.  I've searched and found a forum thread that said that components in an array (for one of your products) couldn't be made independent.  But what about the individually copied and pasted components?

I note that 123D has both a "Paste as Independent" option and a "Make Independent" command, but can't find anything similar in Fusion TP.  Even tried "Make Component from Bodies", but no joy.

 

Is making a component independent just not implemented yet in Fusion TP?

 

Mike

 

PS: Is this the right place for Fusion TP Mac questions?

 

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schneik-adsk
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Yes this is the correct place to post.

 

And yes, make independent is not yet in the Mac version. Unfortunately there is not a very good workaround to this limitation.

 

Here is what I do (for now).

Create an empty component in the browser.

Go to the body I want to reuse.

Edit -> Copy from the menu bar.

Select the newly create component.

Edit -> paste.

The body should appear in the new component and be independent from the source.

 

Kevin Schneider
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mike
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Kevin,

 

Thanks for the reply.  Confirms my suspicion Smiley Wink And for confrming that the workaround I found is the currently optimal way.

 

Mike (who's making prgress getting his head wrapped around Fusion and using it to solve some mechanical linkage problems)

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