Copy component from one design to another...

[Anonymous]

I designed few furnitures each as a individual design in different project, I a very early version I was able to copy and paste components between two deprecate designs but it's look like I can not do it know. I even try to export designs and upload them within one new project but even then I can not copy elements between two designs.
Some of those drawing took me over 30 hours each and I have 8 of them that I need put together. So drafting all over again is not an option
Is there a way of copy component from one design into another?
If so how can I do this?

[grayed]

Well, I just tried that and when I click Paste New, the Move/Copy dialog opens, but my subassembly does not seem to have been pasted.  I checked that I'm at the end of the history.  I've also tried copying and pasting the component before moving it to a subassembly.  Another frustrating hour with Fusion360 watching videos and trying various "solutions", none of which work, for something that should be really easy and intuitively obvious.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Please show the process in a screencast.

This way we can better analyze the behaviour.

günther

[grayed]

hey, thanks, gunther.   I was playing around and discovered that I
somehow had a component on top of a body. who knew? Once I separated
them I was able to copy over the component.

[martinpi.public]

Same for me. I found this thread, even though it is a bit older. Under "learn" I do not know where to find "manage"  (I can choose between "Learning and Certification", "Training", "Autodesk University",... ). I did not understand rule #1 or how I might have violated it.

I the design from where I want to copy, I created a new component. It contains two bodies which are not related to anything else in the design (at least, not that I know). It is an internal component.

In the design where I want to put this component into, I select the root and try "Paste New". I also tried to crate a new component, select it and paste, same effect. 

Please help!

Thanks, Martin

[martinpi.public]

Same here. I found this thread, although it is a bit older.

Under "Learn", I don't know where to look for "Manage". Here I can choose between Learning and Certification, Training, Autodesk University, and so on.

Frankly, I did not understand the rule #1 or how I might have violated it.

In the design from where I want to copy, I generated a new component under the root of the design. I selected this component, selected copy, opened the design where I want the component to be in, and got the result as described above.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Martin

[martinpi.public]

Same problem with me.

I created a few components and tried to copy/paste them to a new design.

With one of them it works, with the others it doesn't. 

I created all of them in the same way and I do not find any differences between them

Pleas help.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Paste should just work. There could be a bug. Please share the file here. Forum experts can help take a further look.

Many thanks!

[justin.byrum4S95N]

This worked great for me, thanks!

[peter_caddy]

I read through this whole thread but still had issues Copying a component from one design to another. Finally I figured out what the issue was. It would seem that if you have a component that is inserted into the design which has a link to the item itself then it won't copy across designs using the Paste New command unless you first break the link. This had me bamboozled for a bit as some components were copying and then I could use Paste New in the other design and yet other components weren't working. Then I realised that the link was the common denominator. Anyway I hope this helps others like me who were looking for an answer 🙂

Regards

Peter