topic Re: How to export a linked component in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

How to export a linked component

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:29:04 GMT

I have an assembly (2), I would like to export a component and save it to my dashboard. I would then like to bring that component into a new design(3) and whenever I modify this component in (2) the component in (3) will automatically change also. Can somebody please help me with this?

Re: How to export a linked component

lichtzeichenanlage — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:06:55 GMT

You can simply export any component by rght-click -> Save Copy As to a project. Unfortunately this will not create an link between the source and the exported component. There is no solution for this. Unless Fusion 360 does not allow cross projects links, you have to copy it anyway to other projects with again is a copy and not a link.

Re: How to export a linked component

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:11:17 GMT

So your saying there is no way to insert a linked component into another design? That surely can't be right there is so much information round on how to break the link between original and derivative

Re: How to export a linked component

lichtzeichenanlage — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:19:57 GMT

No, I'm not say this. What I said is that you:

can not export a component from an existing design AND maintaining a link between the existing design and the exported component. They live different lives after the export.
can not include components into a design in a DIFFERENT project. They have to be located in the same project. This means that you either have to have just one project (what would force other problems / inconveniences) or you have to copy your component to other projects but than you'll have again two independent instances

You can link a component into your design simply by right-click -a component in the Data panel and than choosing Insert into Current Design .

@Anonymous wrote:
So your saying there is no way to insert a linked component into another design? That surely can't be right there is so much information round on how to break the link between original and derivative

Re: How to export a linked component

garrett.glaser — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:34:02 GMT

Am I right in understanding then that there is no way to insert a single component that was built inside a larger file into any other file? I can only export that component as it's own (now unique and un-linked) file and insert that into anything else? I can see the kind of "killing your grandfather" paradoxes this might create if files refer to themselves recursively, but it does seem like being able to link components inside a file in a one-way direction should be possible.

Re: How to export a linked component

garrett.glaser — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:38:05 GMT

I realize this is mostly a case of "build your projects in a more sensible way in the first place" but sometimes things get way more complicated than it initially seemed they would be and the idea of going back to square one once the full scope is known is a real bummer.

Re: How to export a linked component

davebYYPCU — Fri, 27 May 2022 19:00:00 GMT

This thread is old enough to have been left behind the current versions of Fusion.

Fusion does allow export as linked these days, it’s called Derive. From this file to another,

updates in the source are sent to the destination. The destination can take modifications, but they do not propagate back to the source.

Might help....

Re: How to export a linked component

garrett.glaser — Fri, 27 May 2022 19:01:44 GMT

Found that right after I wrote this! Solves my problem, thanks!