Cannot "Paste New"

[apostM2K9B]

I know I've done this before.  I need to start from scratch on a design, but some of the components in the current design are valid.  Yeah...I'm an amateur and probably have some bad techniques, but it is what it is.  So..I need to take a few of the components into a new design and start a new timeline, and redesign.  All of a sudden, the copy...paste new that I SWEAR I've used successfully before just fails to work.  The only solution I've found is to make components of al the bodies that are in my current components then copy them one by one into a new drawing.  Seems massively inefficient to me. 

Any work arounds?

Video attached.  

[HughesTooling]

That seemed to create a lot of warnings so perhaps Fusion just couldn't make anything useful so failed. One thing you could try is using Save Copy As to export the component as a design to your project then insert into your design and break the link but with all those errors and lost references might take longer than remodeling!

Do you need the timeline on the parts you want to copy over? You could turn off history in the design you want to paste into, paste all the components you need the turn history back on.

Mark

[TrippyLighting]

The timeline of your design looks like you need better workflows.

Have you run a "Modify->Compute all" ?

[apostM2K9B]

I have no doubt I need better workflows.  I have no idea how to manage that with the journey of discovery that trial and error of creation seems to dictate.  But....I'll try your idea.  

[apostM2K9B]

Oooooo I'm printing this out.  Sounds promising.