selection limitations for subassembly?

[mbostonsprint]

I have a subassembly which I want to select and copy/paste into another design. It is a fair-sized assembly containing sketch geometry, components, a few bodies, construction geometry, etc. I have tried using a window selection with pretty much everything checked for selection, and I see everything highlight after completing the window select action, then it de-selects itself after about half a second.

Is there some data size constraint, or some other rules about what can be selected in a wholesale selection action like this? I am hoping to avoid having to pick everything individually in the browser.

[TMC.Engineering]

Try this.

[mbostonsprint]

Thanks; unfortunately the subassy is not organized as a single item in the browser at this stage of the process. I want to be able to select a large chunk of the design, and have the items in the browser all be selected, wherever they might be showing up.

[TMC.Engineering]

An assembly is a component with many components under it.  You could copy the top level component (this means the design file name) paste new and then remove things you don't need.  Maybe attach a screencast of you issue, I am kind of working blind at the moment.  The shift and Ctrl button is your friend too.  use shift to grab everything and you can use ctrl to un-select some things. see this gify for shift.

[TrippyLighting]

Cut/paste only works within the same design file.

If you want to use the said subassembly in another design file, you first need to save it to the data panel in it's own file.

To do so you'd select the root of that subassembly the browser, right-click and select "save copy as", which then saves it into its own file.

Then you need to open the file you want to insert it into, select the subassembly in the data panel, right-click and select "insert into current design".

Once it's inserted you might want to break the link.

[TMC.Engineering]

@TrippyLighting  unless I am missing something, and I could be.

Cut/Paste is within a design file but Copy/ Paste New works between files.

[TrippyLighting]

Ha. I'll be darned!

I just tried that and you're right, it does work between files.