Duplicating multiple components quickly in Fusion 360

[jonathansalmon]

Hi there!

I was wondering if there is any quick way to duplicate multiple components at the same time in Fusion, as I've tried using both the Mirror and Pattern tools and they only seem to allow one component to be multiplied each time they are used? I ask as I've been designing a seat for train carriages and it would be good to see what a train carriage fitted with many of these seat would look like.

Thanks!

[joel.palioca]

Hi Jonathan,

There are two steps required to do what you are doing, some of these steps may already be completed depending on how you are managing your components.

1. Make sure the entire seat that you are looking to duplicate is all contained under a single component.  If this isn't alright completed what you can do is go to the level in the browser where you want the component to reside.  Then create a new component and select all the existing components you wish to have a part of the seat and drag them into the newly created component.  This will create a component that contains multiple subcomponents.

2. When you invoke the pattern command, you can then select the newly creatly component from the browser and it should select the entire component for you and duplicate it that way.

I hope this helps, please let me know if this doesn't work for you, or if you need me to create a quick video that shows it.

Cheers,

[tmcnaney]

Thank you for the tip!