Saving Components as New Designs
Hi Rick,
There are 2 conditions for the history of saved copy as components. If you create component at the beginning, then the following history could be saved together with component. If you create component from bodies after finish all design, then the component history will be shown as a base feature in saved copy. It’s a technical limitation currently, as we consider the history before the component creation to be the history of root component, so we only output the history after the component creation. To prevent the same issue, I think it’s better to create component at the beginning; or if you are in the middle of designing, you can delete the history of other components and save as the whole design as sub-component. This is just a temporary workaround, the development team is also trying to find good solution from technical aspect.
Regards,
Sally
Sally Yang
Software QA Engineer
Fusion 360 Quality Assurance Team
Autodesk, Inc.
Sally
Sally Yang
Software QA Engineer
Fusion 360 Quality Assurance Team
Autodesk, Inc.
Not sure Sally's explanation fully describes the best approach.
When you are in a file that already contains other compoents and you want to greate a new part, before doing anything else, create a new comnponent and then activate the component. Activating the component is will ensure that all following actions, e.g creating a sketch, extruding it, applying fillets, chamfers etc. will be saved in the compoents substructure. Activating a component before editing it also makes sure that the design history for that compoent is stored in the component. When following htis guideline, on actiavation of the component you'll also see that the timeline is reduced to show only the timeline for the edits of that component.
When you want to export the component for use in another design you can simply highlight the component and "save as". This also saves the design history for the part.
