Save as and replace functionality

[alex.balako]

I have assemblies which have 20 parts sourced from the same model. If I want to tweak that part, but only for that assembly, I may apply "Save as and replace" function.  But I will end up with 20 new designs, which I need to tweak. It is easy enough to identify that multiple selected components are sourced from the same design, so adding Save and replace menu item to the selected components if all of them reference the same design should not be a big deal.

Or am I missing something?

[ahsan.autodesk · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex,

It looks like you have instanced an external component multiple times in your assembly, and you want all those instances to now point at a different external component. Unfortunately, this "Replace component" functionality is currently not possible. But I agree it would be a nice feature to have. Would you please add this on the Idea Station?

Thx

[alex.balako]

Thank you, Moved to IdeaStation

[espenrs]

This should be unmarked as solved because it is still not solved - and thank you for not adding this feature, it will really help me adding time to my designs.

[siepino]

already 2 years and non solution???

[tszwarc]

Hello,
as of today I cannot find the save-and-replace function under RMB menu.
As we're looking to migrate from other CAD system to F360 with large assemblies where we re-use components across projects / other assemblies this very function would be an great help for us.
The idea was to import one top-level assembly and save-and-replace the components we know that are re-used elsewhere.

Now with save-as and manual replacing components this work would be a nightmare with assemblies consisting of 1000+ parts !

Is where is this function (save and replace) now hidden? 

If not available - is there any add-on that adds this functionality back to F360?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@tszwarc  schrieb:

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Is where is this function (save and replace) now hidden? 

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watch this tutorial

günther

[jeff_strater]

"Save As and Replace" is still there.  Only available on external components, as always.  Not only that, but now the more-general "Replace Component" was just added this week.  You can replace one external component with another, without the "Save As" step.

[tszwarc]

Hi.

I figured that out already that replace component and save and replace is only available for already linked components.

I need to be able to do the same with components designed in assembly.

[jeff_strater]

"As we're looking to migrate from other CAD system to F360 with large assemblies where we re-use components across projects / other assemblies this very function would be an great help for us."

If re-use is your goal, external components are the recommended way to achieve this.

"I need to be able to do the same with components designed in assembly"

If you need to modify a local component so that it is different from other instances of that component, you can use Copy/Paste New.  This creates a new local component that is independent from the original.  If you want to re-use a local component, there is a somewhat convoluted way to turn a local component into an external one for reuse - Derive - you can create a new external component by Deriving a design from just a single local component, but that is a heavy process.  Today, that is the only way to re-use a local component in another design.

[tszwarc]

Alright - so for now there's now easy walk-around that would save me manually saving and replacing approx. 1000 parts - and that's not including the multiple instances...
Uff....