How to edit sketch in a copied component without having to "find in window" or having it look like I'm editing the original sketch?

[svakareskov]

Hi there,

Quite often I copy a component and "past new" to create a new, separate,  instance.  When I go to edit the sketch in the new component, the window zooms out and pans over to some other seemingly random area.  I then have to do  a "Find in window" to easily get the sketch centered in my screen.  Is this normal? Am I missing a setting somewhere?

Separate, but related, quite often when I do this and edit the sketch in the new/copied component and do the "find in window" command, it takes me to what looks like the sketch in the original component. If I edit this sketch the edits only show up in my new/copied component.  It's very confusing because it looks like I'm editing the old/original component.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for help you can provide!

-S

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. please share the file 

2. Which sketch are you talking about?

günther

[svakareskov]

@g-andresen 

As requested, attached is a file showing what I mean.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Activate the 'Copied Comp as New' component.

2. Edit the sketch called 'Edit this one'. 

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

It is confusing, I agree.  My understanding of the Copy/Paste New component is it does copy the original sketch and make it unique, thank goodness, but it leaves it in the original component creation location.  The only way around this is to Copy, an existing component sketch, create a new component, create a new sketch and then paste the copied sketch into it.  This will keep the sketch with the component until you do a Copy/Paste New on it and move the new component to a new location.

[svakareskov]

Thank you!  I'm glad it's not just something that I'm doing wrong.  It would be great if they fixed this in future releases - seems like it would be rather straightforward, since the Copied/New sketch is clearly a separate entity and functions like it in all the ways we would expect it, just that location in the edit window is not quite right. 

Consider this fixed!.