Possible to unlink copied components?

[Noah_Katz]

I believe I asked this either in its own thread or as a tangential question in another thread, but either I didn't get an answer or have memory loss.

Is there a way to convert what was a copy/paste new to an unlinked copy?

[daniel_lyall]

Have a look at this https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=ASM-DERIVED-DESIGN-FEATURES

[Noah_Katz]

Daniel,

That link describes how to link things, not unlink them.

[rushabhthakkar_910]

Is there a way to convert what was a copy/paste new to an unlinked copy? Right-click on the component in the browser, select "Break Link".

THIS can help you... 

[Noah_Katz]

> THIS can help you... 

? That just links back to the beginning of this thread.

[daniel_lyall]

The link at the bottom of that page https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=ASM-DERIVE

Have a look at this as well, I know all of this is not %100 what you want I am quite sure this is the way fusion is going for assembly. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDR3GDHO-Io

[rushabhthakkar_910]

Simply by going to Direct modeling mode, aka disabling the timeline, and choosing make independent works.

[daniel_lyall]

@rushabhthakkar_910 that is not what they want.

[Anonymous]

Copy and paste new was an excellent idea as long as you do it at the time of the copy. Worked for me.

[jhackney1972]

I would like to offer my solution to the situation where a designer, in a capture history environment, copies a component then "Paste" it back into the design.  The design is modified, which modifies both, but then the designer realizes they want to break the link to modify one but not the other while maintaining all the features of the component.  This Screencast was create for a reply to a Private Message but I hope it will present a method of breaking the link between a copied and then pasted component.

[nicolas.chollet]

Yes actually worked for me you copy paste as new the component you want unlink, its gonna be by default at the same position. Then supress the old linked component

Cheers

[Anonymous]

After Copying and pasting, Right click on the component and Select "Make independent".  

[jhackney1972]

Your statement is only true if you are in Direct Modeling mode.  If you are capturing design history (you have a timeline) this option is not available.  

[butu.irakli]

I guess I cant delete a reply so.

[tyagiayush9876]

Solved. In order to perform copy/paste, rectangular, and circular patterns and edit/modify each component separately, here's what you can do:

1. First activate the component you want to copy and paste, now, copy the body under that particular component and create as many copies as you want.

2. Now select all the copies/bodies made under that selected/activated component, right-click and choose create components from bodies.

3. Now you can select all the new components made and drag them to the main/parent component, and you'll have all the copies/bodies as new components and you can edit them individually.

[TrippyLighting]

@tyagiayush9876 not quite 😉

if you edit the sketch you created the original component with, the bodies in all the other components will change as well.

[tyagiayush9876]

@TrippyLighting Ah! Correct Mate, thanks for the reply. I guess I have to dig in more to solve this issue because I cannot find the "break link" option as suggested in the comments of this issue.

[TrippyLighting]

There is no break link option for copy/pasted components. There has never been one!

Only in design without a timeline also called Direct Modeling designs will you be presented with an option to make a copy/pasted component or in other words an instance of a component Independent".

 

Unfortunately, there is really no solution for this in designs with the timeline enabled, just perhaps workarounds.

You could save the component out to the data panel and then re-insert it into the design and then you could break the link and make that newly inserted component part of that design with no link o the copy in the data panel.

Then you'll have an independent copy.

How well that works depends on how disciplined you were in avoiding references to objects in other components in the design.

[tyagiayush9876]

@TrippyLighting Understood mate, thank you for this information. 😊

[rturnier]

Don't know if u resolved this problem, hope it is not too late.  Found this and it worked:

Breaking the Link Between One or More Components in a Fusion 360 Pattern - YouTube

Hope that helps

[Noah_Katz]

Very interesting, thanks.

However, I'm not sure it what it buys over a Copy/Paste New, since you have to first create a pattern, and after the procedure the joints are lost.

The whole reason for I wanted to break the link was to leave the component in place w/o disturbing its location and joint relationships.

As an aside, I wonder why the it's called Boundary Fill.