Move/copy and paste new don't suffice. I want derive behavior inside my design.

[Anonymous]

I have a profile (say a C profile) of length 1 m with certain properties for its cross section. Now I want to create a shorter version of the profile (40 cm) by copying and then modifying the 1 m section I copied. There are 2 options I know, but I need a third variant:

1. Use move/copy and modify. This will also change my original 1 m section.

2. Paste new and modify. This will do what I want, but if I decide to change the profile cross-section, I have to change both profiles seperately

3. Desired yet not known to me: I want to create a 'derived' part inside the same design such that changes to the original will propagate to the shorter profile, but changing the 'copied' profile should not affect the original.

How do I approach this?

[HughesTooling]

Here's one idea. Create the cross section profile in a top level component (container) then create the parts in subcomponents of the top level component. You can copy the first subcomponent and then Paste New and both copies will use the cross section from the container component.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

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@Anonymous wrote:

but changing the 'copied' profile should not affect the original.

How do I approach this?

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Missed this on the first read, not going to be able to do this in Fusion. I've used other software with configurations but even there big changes to sketches messed things up.

Mark