Component copy vs insert (I think) (actually paste vs paste new)

[Anonymous]

OK - what I'm describing is all within a single design, no use of external components.

I created a component within this design and have copied it so that I now have 13 (copies? instances? not sure what term to use). So what now happens is anytime I edit or modify one of the copies all the other copies get the same modifications. Essentially the components are linked although that may not be the right term as "linked" components are indicated with a little chain-link and these components don't have the link icon.

So how do I un-connect these components? What seems odd to me is that I was able to apply different appearance to them (red/white plastic) so that's clearly a property of the component that doesn't propagate to all the other components?

After a little testing, it's clear that I used "paste" instead of "paste new". This happened because I used the standard copy/paste keystrokes instead of the menu (if I used the menu I may still have chosen the wrong type of paste).

So how do if fix this?

Is there anyway to quickly make the copies "paste new" instead of just "paste"?

This is the kind of thing that dives me nuts about F360 - I get that it's all part of the parametric awesomeness it seems these gotchas come up after I've got a couple of hours into a design more often than I'd like.

[TrippyLighting]

You cannot un-connect these when in timeline mode.

I believe in direct modeling mode that can be done.

[patmang]

I totally agree - Imagine this I...am creating parametric curtain wall frames and I did the same thing I then change the DLO and frame sizes and all my gaskets go out of control - I guess its the hard way to learn - another thing to watch out for is when creating a drawing be sure to look at the Bill of Materials you will see the difference of paste and paste new in the quantities of the parts that are combined and the parts that are counted separately - I hope that makes sense...but you'll see what I mean.

This is a great program but nothing is what is seems - logic is out the window - learn by trial and error - but you learn fast by not recreating mistakes!