Choosing features from one component to make a matching component

[TurtleRacing]

Did something change on the latest update? I have my parts designed and am trying to make a fixture for them but cannot pick features to make my fixture. I always make my fixtures as a new component. I have never had this problem before, I have always been able to just select the features I want to capture and design a fixture off of those features from previous components.

Is there a setting I am missing? 

[HughesTooling]

Don't think anything's changed. Can you give more details, a few screenshots or a screencast. 

A couple of thoughts, don't suppose the parts you're try to select from have been made unselectable, will have a red crossed circle icon in the browser. Or check you have all your selection filters enabled.

Mark

[TurtleRacing]

Already made sure the select/unselect is fine.

I have attached 2 pictures, arms and arms fixture, as you can see in the fixture pic I just made bosses to locate arms on fixture. But in creating those bosses I had to draw lines and individually coincident end points to end points on the arms themselves. Normally I could just create lines or rectangles by clicking on the features of the arms. It's not allowing me to do this since the update. 

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

Think there might have been a change to auto projection. Go to properties and check auto project on reference, most people found autoproject more trouble than it's worth but you can't please everyone. I've spent the last few years telling people how to turn it off!

Mark

[TurtleRacing]

That worked, thanks!

I get that it's a bit of a pain, but how else are you going to create geometry from previous geometry? Especially for fixtures or soft jaws. There are times I don't like that feature but it's far more useful and I think the select/deselect makes far more sense if it's hindering.

[HughesTooling]

Press P and project what you need. The trouble with auto project is you can end up with a lot of curves you don't need and it can slow the sketch solver.

Mark

[TurtleRacing]

You are correct, that works way better!