topic Re: how to un-nest one component from its "mother" in Fusion Support Forum

how to un-nest one component from its "mother"

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 17:12:13 GMT

I have a project where one component was inadvertently nested inside another component. I have tried dragging the "child" component out in the browser, but it doesn't budge. Separate, but related, question: why do nested components exist? what is their advantage?

Re: how to un-nest one component from its "mother"

HughesTooling — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 20:24:33 GMT

One way would be Copy then Paste New then delete the original. As for sub components, they are useful for subassemblies.

Mark

Re: how to un-nest one component from its "mother"

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:05:00 GMT

Thanks Mark. That works. After I did that I saw that a "body" had been left behind in the old component. So, I copied and pasted that body to the new (independent) component and that also worked. Finally, I then saw that I still had some wayward left behind sketches. For some reason, I was able to drag them to the appropriate component.

Re: how to un-nest one component from its "mother"

HughesTooling — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:10:19 GMT

Do you have component colour cycling enabled? It usually give you a clue you're using the wrong component because when you extrude it's the wrong colour, but there are only about 10 colours so not foolproof!

Mark