Separating loft from design and saving it

[Anonymous]

This or similar question probably has been answered many, many times here but due to multiplicity of ways you can describe this, I'm struggling to find an answer. So I figured I'd just ask myself.

So here I got this loft. I'd love to disconnect it from rest of design and save it as different, separate file. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Thank you very much in advance.

[whittakerdw]

If it is a body and not a component, select that specific body and right click in the model tree and select create components from bodies. When it has been created as a component, right click again and click save copy as. You can then rename it as a separate file.

If it is already a component, just right click and select save copy as.

If the part you are wanting to isolate by itself is attached to the base, select split body in the modify menu.

Hope this helps.

[jeff_strater]

or, if, hopefully, you created the loft in a parametric design, edit the Loft feature, change from Join to New Component, then follow @whittakerdw 's suggestion to save this as a separate design.

[laughingcreek]

Hey @jeff_strater , most (all?) features that create new bodies like loft, extrude, etc  only allow component creation the first time around.  when you go back to edit them "new component" isn't offered as an option.  I have wished for this many times, but I imagine it has potential to much things up in the time line.

[jeff_strater]

@laughingcreek - at least someone is keeping me honest.  You are absolutely correct - you cannot go back and edit a feature to switch to New Component.  You can only switch to New Body from Join.  You would then have to do Component From Body to turn that into a component...

[chrisplyler]

If it's a single Loft event, it wouldn't be much trouble to move the timeline back to it, delete it, and re-do it as a component. The only issue would be correcting any downstream items that might be dependent on it.