Paste functioning but not "Paste New"
@us.shadow.op - paste new seems to work OK on a simple design. Can you share your model and a screencast of what you are doing, so we can check out whether there is a problem here or not? Thanks.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
Hi,
enable component color tool and create some components.
Now you can test the behavior of paste new*.
1. > primary component
2. > other without itselve
* Important : move component after paste
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There is something odd going on in the OP's example, if you look at the second picture the top component is active but no new component has been created. I've played around a bit but can't get the same behaviour, @us.shadow.op have you tried saving, close Fusion and restart then try again?
Mark
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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Actually the second image doesn't look right as it's the dialog for Copy/Move, not the one you'd get from paste new.
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good catch, @HughesTooling - I hadn't noticed "Bodies" as the object type here. You will get to the Move dialog from Paste New, but it should always be set to "Components":
Jeff Strater
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One tip, make sure you're not pasting back into the source component. You can Paste into the source component but you can't Paste New.
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@us.shadow.op - the youtube video is fine. It does show a problem, but it sounds to me like it is data specific - I have not been able to reproduce it yet. If you share your design here, we can take a closer look. Thanks.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
aha. Proving the old saying: A picture is worth 1000 words, a video is worth 10,000, and the model is worth 100,000...
You have to look really closely, but there is an error that flashes by at 0:14 in the video below:
How Paste New works is: Fusion copies the selected component's features, and dumps them into a new component. Then, it invokes Move, selecting the new component. What is happening in this case is the copy operation failed, but the Move command still gets invoked anyway. Because there is no new component to select, it goes back to its default setting of "Bodies". You can see the same problem if you do "Save Copy As" of that same component, then open it in a new tab and Compute All. We will look at why the fillet fails. It seems a strange case. I did notice that the Copy/Paste Bodies feature also fails in the original as well as the copy. Not sure if that is related or not, but, in general, it's good to get all those errors/warnings fixed as soon as they happen.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
The plot thickens. I did finally trace this down to, essentially, a problem that exists with negative dimensions in sketch. Fusion sketch does not behave well with negative dimensions. This is causing the sketch to flip, which is causing the fillet to fail, which is causing the Paste New to fail. Sort of like the "for want of a nail" proverb: For_Want_of_a_Nail.
Here is a video (with audio) explaining this chain reaction:
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
that is likely a different issue. The negative dimension problem is very specific, because it will flip back and forth in a repeatable way.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
