IV Assembly Wish: Paste with orientation, Paste with constraints

[Anonymous]

I wish it was possible to:

1) copy one or more components, then Paste with orientation. When pasted, the location of the part(s) would be chosen with the mouse, but the orientation would be the same as the original components

2) copy multiple components, then Paste with Constraints. When pasted, any constraints between the original copied parts would be duplicated in the pasted parts.

[Anonymous]

#1 would be useful
#2 would be EXTREMELY useful....and that is the way you would think copy/paste compents would work. Maybe it wouldn't keep all constraints..I can see that. However, it should keep all relevant constraints between the already joined components......Oh, I wish upon a star....Larry

[Anonymous]

Josh,

For #2, I think Copy Component in Assembly panel should work like you
describe.

Johnson Shiue
Test Engineer
Autodesk
(email: johnsonDOTshiueATautodeskDOTcom)
wrote in message news:5635442@discussion.autodesk.com...
I wish it was possible to:

1) copy one or more components, then Paste with orientation. When pasted,
the location of the part(s) would be chosen with the mouse, but the
orientation would be the same as the original components

2) copy multiple components, then Paste with Constraints. When pasted, any
constraints between the original copied parts would be duplicated in the
pasted parts.

[Anonymous]

ahh yes, and it also inserts the components with the same orientation 🙂 Thanks Johnson!

[Anonymous]

Dang Josh can you wish me a million dollars seems your wishes come true alot faster then mine.

[Anonymous]

I'll shut up now.....haven't tried that since the switch.
Larry

[Anonymous]

There was some issue we had with it in R8 and avoided using it. The Copy - Re-use works great now.

Pete

[rfowler24]

Greetings,

This feature seems to work fine except I can't seem to lick one problem.

The copied parts have extra numeric instance values added to the end of the part number.  Is there a way to turn this off.  I've deselected the prefix/suffix boxes in the copy component wizard.

Any suggestions?

Randy

IVP 2011

[rfowler24]

Disregard,

I figured it out.  (Reuse parts instead of copy)

Thanks anyway