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2D Drawing - Change Reference Link of one part to another.

2D Drawing - Change Reference Link of one part to another.

I'm trying to change the reference link on my drawing from part "A" to Part "B." Is this even possible?

 

Here is an example of what I need to do:

1. Lets say Part A is a Cylinder with Diameter of 90mm, and I make a drawing for it.

2. Now, lets say Part B is a cylinder as well but this time the Diameter is 124mm....Therefore, I dont want to re-create the drawing again right?...so, what should I do? I can not find a way of doing this, except re-creating the drawing again.

 

Here is what I tried to do:

1. I duplicated the Part A with his drawing.

2. I renamed the duplicated part to Part B.

3. When open the duplicate 3D part and changed it....the drawing was still linked to Part A, not to the duplicated one (Part B)....

 

I hope there is a way to this. (Catia or Solidworks have this functionality and I hope Fusion 360 too)

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

23 Comments
TimeraAutodesk
Community Manager
Status changed to: Future Consideration
 
Remy18
Enthusiast

Is there any news on this subject ? It would be nice to see this enhancement on the roadmap. It is a valuable option to save a lot of time instead of making new drawings everytime. 

rapiddsol
Enthusiast

Where we at on this Autodesk??

Anonymous
Not applicable

You guys need to do ALOT to improve the Drawings function of Autodesk. It's rather useless to have a CAD program when you can't send out any actual drawings to factories or simply are trying to do a layout of pieces for a Laser Cutter, 3D printer, or CNC. Yes i know there are other ways to do this, but these solutions are spread out all over the program, whereas a program like Solidworks can do all of this and way more simply by having a well thought out Drawings part of their program.

MitchPolly
Explorer

Really could have used this today. 😕

CAMXPRESS
Advocate

It needs to be work on multiple drawings also!

If we able to export multiple drawings (referenced to one design model) to one .f3z file (1 design model and multiple drawings inside the pack) would be an acceptable solution that easy to implement by the developers!

Hope we have a solution for it soon.

Regards,

 

Joe

csundra
Participant

Ditto.  It's pretty common practice to Save As a new rev - many times you still have both product versions out in the real world and have to support them both.  So they need separate design and drawing chains, not just a "version" that you'd have to roll the current model back to.

Anonymous
Not applicable

It has been already 3 years guys. Can you please implement this crucial feature.

Anonymous
Not applicable

I too would also make much use of this feature. Hit this issue today.

dannyzgiga
Observer

I also was trying to do this today - just make another part with drawing(s) only slightly different than an existing part. 

There must be a workaround in the meantime. Is there a way I can make a copy of the whole set of model(s) and drawing(s)? Perhaps we can copy an entire project with models and drawings??

Anonymous
Not applicable

Please add this feature! It'd be such a time saver, especially when using a drawing template! 

mcculloughjABE33
Observer

This feature would be really useful right now... It's making me reconsider the whole idea of a cad system where I do not have access to the design files I create.

andy.c
Advocate

Patience is a virtue. 08-23-2015 to 02-21-2019 makes for allot of virtuous clients. There has to be a better way to get  common features implemented into Fusion 360. Voting does not seem work very well and we all have work to do.

Anonymous
Not applicable

This would save many hours of drafting for many people... I hope we can see this updated soon.

Anonymous
Not applicable

I need this too.

Especially for similar parts with similar drawings you don't want to restart from scratch.

Anonymous
Not applicable

 



I need this too.

Especially for similar parts with similar drawings you don't want to restart from scratch.

IMT_Engineering
Explorer

Really, has it not been implemented yet?

I had to switch to Solidworks mostly because of this missing feature!

CAMXPRESS
Advocate

@IMT_Engineering  :  And it (SW) is free for home users also ... 

rmorgan5Q29U
Explorer

I Need this too, could have really used it today and every day.

graham3848S
Explorer

I am finding myself more and more disappointed with fusions drawing capabilities, I have said it before and I will say it here, it feels like using MS Paint to do photo editing. it works, its just frustratingly slow and you have to put far too much effort in to accomplish what is simply built in to other more capable programs.

 

If Autodesk truly want fusion to be a one stop shop like they push in their marketing they need to have a competency featured drawing package that docent make you fight to get what you need, and then scrap it when you need to make slight changes.

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