Questions about copy/paste operations

[Anonymous]

I've made a sketch in one design, and I'd like to paste it into another, different design.

In Design 1, I control-click the browser sketch entry, I see and select the 'copy' option. I switch to Design 2 (which is blank so far). I click 'create sketch' and pick a plane. I look for a 'paste' option - can't find one. I try 'command-V (I'm on a Mac), nothing happens. Control-click the sketch in browser tree, no paste option. Can't see how to insert the sketch I did and copied in Design 1.

Just for fun, I go back to Design 1, click 'create sketch', pick a plane, then 'control-click the new sketch's browser entry - and there's a 'paste' choice, which works, placing my sketch on the selected plane with movement handles.

Is "copy' not capable of transferring sketches across designs? 

Regarding copy/paste of solid bodies: trying to do with a simple solid body what I described above for sketches 100% crashes the program. Crash report going out now.

I guess I'm confused about how to get simple entities I may have in one design across to another. Advice gladly taken.

[Phil.E · Accepted solution]

Sorry to hear of your troubles.

The read me has several entries for copy and paste.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Get-Help-with-Fusion-360/Fusion-360-Readme/td-p/4311780

The bottom line is that parametric modeling does not support copy and paste between designs.

For sketches and bodies, in a direct, non-parametric model, copy and paste works within the envelope of a component. You can copy and paste components between (non-parametric) designs.

To do this:

1. Right click on the top node of the browser and pick Do not capture Design History. (NOTE: this will remove all parameters and timeline aspects of your design)
2. Create a new component.
3. Drag or copy the sketch into this new component.
4. Right click to copy the sketch component.
5. In a new, non-parametric part file, right click on the top node of the browser and Paste.

[Anonymous]

Thanks very much, Phil.