Moving a component from one file to another with its parameters

[crchisholm]

I am learning to use components and parameters.  I successfully created a somewhat complicated part fully parameterized and then copied it to another file to be joined with another  component.  I tried to be careful in how I named parameters in the first component, but that turned out to be a bit of a fruitless exercise as the parameters did not copy over with the component.  It’s not the end of the world but I wonder if I could have done it differently such that the parameters that define the component would have come over with it.  

I copied the component by opening the file to receive the it and then browsed to the file that contained the component to add and used insert into current.

Is what I’m trying to do  even possible?

[HughesTooling]

If you break the link after inserting you'll get access to it's parameters but it will on longer be linked to the original design.

Mark

[jhackney1972]

This is a duplicated forum post with a slightly different title.  Please do not post the same question twice.  The original post is here.