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Figuring which designs are linked to which others

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:47:41 GMT

A project I'm working on has "forked" and really should be split into two projects. I'm finding that very hard. I was fighting with not being able to 'move' the relevant files to the new project and I discovered why - if two designs are linked, they have to be in the same project. That seems fair and reasonable. Is there some way to *find*out* which designs are linked to which others? The only thing I can see is to open each of the 25 designs in the project and check for non-broken-links included designs and then draw up a "linking tree". Is there an easier way?

Also, I'd appreciate advice on how to deal with "basic" designs, that are included/linked into designs for both projects. I understand what I have to do in this case: *break* the link to the 'basic' design in each to-be-moved design, I can then move those designs to the new project. Then I'll "copy" the basic designs into the new project

[it'd be cool if I could leave them linked so that if I needed to tweak one of the basic designs it would all work, but it is OK if I can't] BUT: assuming I do all this, is there any reasonable way to fix the links in the new design? I'm thinking that all I can do is delete the included [now unlinked] design and insert the copied-over basic design and then try to "repair" the design [to positioni it properly, fix joints, etc]

It looks like it'll be hard, if possible at all, to do this... so in the future i'll have to be very very careful: when a project seems to be "branching" I need to *immediately* fork a new design before the two are intertwined.

Re: Figuring which designs are linked to which others

HughesTooling — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:58:44 GMT

If you click the version icon in the data panel you have the option to view if a designs uses other designs or is used in other designs. Note it will only show if a design is used in the current version, if you've removed a design from the latest version it will still be linked to old versions in the version history but there's no way to check.

You might want to check out the Team Hub from the latest What's New page, with a team hub you can link designs across projects,

Mark

Re: Figuring which designs are linked to which others

HughesTooling — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:02:26 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Also, I'd appreciate advice on how to deal with "basic" designs, that are included/linked into designs for both projects. I understand what I have to do in this case: *break* the link to the 'basic' design in each to-be-moved design, I can then move those designs to the new project. Then I'll "copy" the basic designs into the new project

[it'd be cool if I could leave them linked so that if I needed to tweak one of the basic designs it would all work, but it is OK if I can't] BUT: assuming I do all this, is there any reasonable way to fix the links in the new design? I'm thinking that all I can do is delete the included [now unlinked] design and insert the copied-over basic design and then try to "repair" the design [to positioni it properly, fix joints, etc]

With a team hub you could split it up along the lines of Project1, Project2 and ProjectShared so any designs used in Project1 and Project2 are in ProjectShared, maintaining all links you have now.

Mark

Re: Figuring which designs are linked to which others

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:04:48 GMT

That's wonderful!!! I thought I'd have to open each projecdt and look for the 'chain link' icon.

And I assume I can be a "team of one" 🙂 Team project sounds like exactly what I want -- I'll read about it.

Thanks!!

Re: Figuring which designs are linked to which others

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:10:07 GMT

I include designs across projects all the time (I just right click on the design in the data panel and select "Insert into current design"). Are you linking these as components, or doing something else? I feel like maybe I'm misunderstanding your workflow (or maybe I'M doing something wrong?)

Re: Figuring which designs are linked to which others

HughesTooling — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:16:51 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I include designs across projects all the time (I just right click on the design in the data panel and select "Insert into current design"). Are you linking these as components, or doing something else? I feel like maybe I'm misunderstanding your workflow (or maybe I'M doing something wrong?)

Are you using a team hub? If not when you insert a design from a different project the link is automatically broken, on a team hub you can keep the link across projects.

Mark

Re: Figuring which designs are linked to which others

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:23:29 GMT

What I would like is my project split into three projects -- one with "standard
parts" and the other two the [currently] two branches of development I've
traveled down. The thing is that I want to *link* to the "standard parts" so that
when I find a problem with one of them I can fix it just once and have the revised
part available to all the "child" projects with just a "get latest version".

I have just learned about the existence of "team hubs" and it looks like it is exactly
what I want. There'd be no "team" -- just me 🐵 -- but then I could set up the
projects and link across them. I'm just trying to learn how all this works.