How to give each component its own parameter space?

[lukerl]

I'm designing a system of small parts based on a common grid. I have a fully parametric model that lets me specify the dimensions of a part in units--e.g. 2x2, 7x4, 3x5, and it resizes it and adds holes accordingly. This is fine for manufacturing multiples--I can program the CAM and then create a pattern.

My question is how can I create a one-off set of different parts to machine? Say I want to make a 2x2, 4x4, and 3x5 from same stock. I tried duplicating the component "4x4 tray" and then changed units_x and units_y, but it changed the original as well--now I realize they are linked references.

Is there a better way to design this so that each component can have its own copy of the parameters? Even better would be if some were still global and others unique to each namespace.

[SaeedHamza]

Of course, al you have to do is to use Paste New instead of just Paste

[chrisplyler]

I humbly suggest that you copy/paste_new the base 2x2 block Component several times, and then modify the first copy to be a 3x5, the second copy to be a 7x4, etc. And if you want to keep using the parameters, you'll have to have a 2x2_width, 2x2_height, 3x5_width, 3x5_height, 7x4_width, 7x4_height, etc.

But I wouldn't even use the User Parameters. Just make a separate, fixed Component for each different size. It might make sense to keep one parameter for extrusion thickness or whatever, so that it would easily change the thickness of all the sizes with one change if you expect you might want that.

Fusion doesn't really have any feature set designed to manage multiple variations of an item. You just have to manually manage it. Now you can choose to just have several variations as Components inside a single file as I've described, or you can have several individual files inside a Project Folder.

[lukerl]

OK thanks, I was afraid that was going to be the answer.

I do need to keep the parameters because each different material requires fine tuning and I need to be able to change everything in one place. I think I'll just create several different components, one for each size and name them as you suggest. Clunky but it should work.

[lichtzeichenanlage · Accepted solution]

This is how I would do it.

• Create a default component. 
• Name the model parameters (those d1, d2 etc. parameters) properly.
• Mark them as favorite.
• Copy / Paste New your default component and do your adjustments. You'll see, that the favorites will be copied / pasted newly, too. That makes it easy to edit.

[lukerl]

Thanks! Renaming the model parameters was the key and makes it much cleaner!