Scaling a copy of a component

[Anonymous]

I have made a copy of a component. 

When I try to scale the copy, both the copy and the original get scaled.

How can I scale only the copy?

[Beyondforce · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

That's very easy. You need to choose "Paste New". This way you create a new independent copy of the original component.

Cheers / Ben
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[Anonymous]

Two things about that solution:

1) I haven't found the "Paste New" option anywhere (I use Mac Fusion 360 2.0), even though I have read about that option in another thread too.

2) I don't really want to paste a new copy. What I want is to retain the body forms linked (so I can edit the original body/forms), but the transform (scaling) different.

Not possible?

PD: It does seem that individual bodies within a pasted component do have their own translation transforms, because I moved the copy to somewhere else, but it seems the scaling is not duplicated, seems shared between copies.

[HughesTooling]

You can do what you want. Create a new component and copy the body from the source component, after the copy the body will be independent so you can modify it without effecting the original. To modify the original and have the modifications effect the copy you need to roll the timeline back to be for the copy and the creation of the second component. One question, are you following Rule #1 and making self contained components with all the sketches and features?

Mark

[Anonymous]

Found the Paste New option, under right click main component only.

That seems to work, but still would be nice to be able to scale an instanced copy, just like you can translate or rotate.

When you instance paste (versus new paste) I wonder what exactly gets duplicated. I'm still learning, but if I want to apply properties to the pasted new (scaled) copy, say material, or anything else, I'm guessing I'm going to have to do it to all the bodies that have been copied into a new component. Tedious! (when all I needed to do is scale)

[HughesTooling]

Did you read my post about copying the body from a base component to the child components?

Mark

[HughesTooling]

Here's a screencast I made a while ago to demonstrate how to make independent copies and how rolling the timeline back allows modifying the base and copied components.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Thanks @HughesTooling, I knew about the timeline, thanks for the video, though.