Copying an object/not moving it.

[Draknkep]

Ok... this is driving my nuts.. In Acad 2016, You can copy and object, to another point leaving the original object in place. In trying to do the same thing in Fusion 360, I see the copy/move command, but it seems to do just that, it moves the original object. I am was trying to copy an object I had made that I would later extrude, and I wanted to put the same object on a face, 90° to the original, so I could extrude it also. As I could not figure out how to do this, I just 'drew' it again, then extruded both. The design I made is a  mount for a JR/Spektrum remote receiver.

And... I learned a lot of Autocad 2016 with a good book I found and would like to find a book for this program, I found one at Barnes and Nobel online  but at $48.87, I am somewhat loathe to buy it if it is not a good book. The book I found is 'Autodesk Fusion 360 Introduction to Parametric Modeling:' Is it a good book? It seems to be about the only one I can find.

 Help please..

SteveT.

[tommy]

Hey Dave, apologies I am being a retard it seems and cannot seem to follow your workflow. Any chance you can make a screencast of what you did? Would be a massive help as I have at least 3 or 4 other areas where I need to add a 4th clip.

[davebYYPCU]

Ok, will get to it tomorrow afternoon, 

Late night at the moment.

[davebYYPCU]

Found a bit of time this morning, 

Only thing I did differently was to sketch the rectangle to extrude, instead of making a box to cut, 

might help showing another way as well, 

making the tab solid and then combine Join is the same.

Might help...

[tommy]

Great, many thanks again for this. I finally managed to work out how to do it with the help from your screencast! Cheers

[Anonymous]

What if you are unable to select the copy check box? is there another way to copy?

[laughingcreek]

ctrl-C for copy and ctrl-v for paste works for most things in fusion