Fusion
When you use Paste New the new component is totally independent, no links at all to the original.
From your description what I would do is finish the first component then use Boundary Fill set to New Component to create your copy. Now if you want to make changes affecting both roll the timeline back before the Boundary Fill, any modifications to either component after the boundary fill will be independent.
Mark
Mark Hughes
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I understand the confusion. Paste New does not create a feature in the timeline that represents the Paste New itself. You can see this if you create a local component, create one instance via Paste (which creates an instance item in the timeline). However, if you do a Paste New, instead, all the features that created the component are copied into the timeline:
This creates a situation that is as if you had created a second component yourself, and manually created the sketches, features, etc. There is no sense that this component derives anything from the original.
Hopefully this is clear.
Jeff
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
You have 2 options with copy, Paste and Paste New. Paste will create identical copies, the copies create no features in the timeline so changes to one affect all. Paste New create a new totally independent component with no links at all to the original, you my not like this but it is very useful.
What you want is a copy that's linkes when you find it convenient and not linked at other times. The only way you can do this is creating a copy of the body from component 1 in a new component. The Boundary Fill technique is the safest way to make a new component with a body linked to the original.
I haven't downloaded your model but you'll have to delete your second component and recreate using Boundary Fill.
Mark
Mark Hughes
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Here's a screencast I made for someone else to demonstrate. Think I used copy to copy the bodies, I've found this can break with no way to fix so use Boundary Fill that allows reselection of the body if anything goes wrong.
Mark
Mark Hughes
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As I said above don't use copy use Boundary Fill, for Operation change to New Component. This will create a copy of the body and a new component at the same time.
When you want to make a change that affects both components, drag the timeline marker just before the Boundary Fill activate the first component and make your changes. When you move the timeline marker back over the Boundary Fill or to the the end of the timeline your changes should propagate to the copy.
Mark
Mark Hughes
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Yes sounds about right. The boundary fill operation is a workaround, using create new component then copy paste of a body is more intuitive but the copy can break and leave you with a lot of work trying to fix.
Mark
Mark Hughes
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