How to tag or name instances of a component
I just tested exporting a file to Rhino, what i found is if you make a copy using Copy then Paste New the names of the components come through the stp export.
In this example I had a component Box1 I made 2 copies one using Paste New named Box2 and one using Paste, this one you can't give a unique name as it's always liked to the first component. In Rhino this is what I got. What program are you exporting to?
Mark.
Mark Hughes
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Yeah, today, you cannot really name individual instances of the same component differently. Their name is composed of the component name + an instance number. As @HughesTooling says, though, if you break the link to the component, you can rename them.
If your instances are of an external design (inserted from the side panel), you can use Break Link to make them independent. However, if your components are internal, then as @HughesTooling says, Paste New is the way to go.
However, be aware of the consequences of this: Your instances are now independent components. If you make an edit to one, it will not be reflected in the others. And your data size will increase, as the geometries are now duplicated.
Jeff Strater (Fusion development)
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
Making copies as bodies seems to work as well, and as long as you roll the time line back to before the copy, edits to first body will update the copies.
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Mark Hughes
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@Anonymous wrote:
Hi Jeff,
Thank you for the explanation. I was hoping to keep the components as such because the whole idea of using a component was to allow a change in the component to be reflected in all instances. Something as simple as SketchUp does allow naming the instances of a component. So ... hopefully it comes in a future version. In the mean time I'll be using Bodies, copy them, and name them, as their names do show up in the STEP files. But then, if I want to change them, I'll have to do copying again.
Regards,
Peter Bruinink
If you have record history on you can roll the time line back to before the copy then modify the first body then roll to the end of the history the copies will update.
Mark
Mark Hughes
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