How do I make modules / a new construction from components ?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am fairly new to Fusion and I am switching over from Solidworks and HICAD. After 7 years with these two I am spoiled I guess 😄  I am used to working with modules (groups of components) which I can save as a new construction even though I constructed these components in a different construction.

Is there any way in Fusion360 to save multiple components to a new construction without loosing the relation to the origin of the first construction I positioned the parts in?

And is there a way to form folders or groups that I can just drag and drop parts into to organize my construction a little bit ? (I tried making a new component and dragging sheetmetal components into this component but failed)

I attatched two screenshots of my old and new environment.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

You last statement made me think of this blog article and video.  The only component you the method shown will not work with is a sheet metal bodies.  They take a special process, which I show in the Screencast.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your answer !

Unfotunately this isn't excactly what I was searching for since my parts are linked to their initial construction but I am sure that this will still help me in some situations and it leaded me to a way of doing excactly what I wanted but in an ugly way:

>>I simply copy my construction with all the built in components, delete all the components I don't need in the copied one and put the copy into (with the linked parts) the main construction. And if I don't want to loose the relation to the origin I leave the old parts in the main construction until I paste the copy back into the main construction.<<

Having a function to sum up but not affect some of the unsortet stuff in my construction would be a great feature and saving this group as a new construction would be even better.

With best wishes

P.Münzberg