New Feature Needed - Paste Flat

[awilliamwright]

There needs to be a way to copy a component/selection of components and then paste FLAT (no history, no links, no marriages). So it's not just "new," but it's free of any of the problems that might arise from Fusion trying to reproduce the construction of the original. 

This is important, because Fusion isn't always able to handle the type of complex back and forth and trial and error that goes on into building the first of a complex assembly or multi-level component. The "paste new" will not work at all if there is the slightest confusion (example: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/copy-paste-works-but-copy-paste-new-does-n... )

Also, making this even more important is that the only workaround is very convoluted. Because you can't even save a copy, delete history, and import from that saved copy back in, because that runs into a bug in the program where it will refuse to do the "insert derive" command under these circumstances (as per: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/insert-derive-does-not-add-the-component-t... )

The only way I've found to fix this, is to open a new project, import the item you can't paste new into the new project, save the project, THEN import that item from the new project over into the original project. Which is ridiculous. 

[TrippyLighting]

Can you post an example of your work where some of this is a problem ?

The reason this did not work in the first thread you linked to is simply that the user was not aware of certain concepts in Fusion 360 and did not account for the when planning his work.

That is fairly normal and as you gain experience you'll be able to structure your design's so you can avoid such situations.

If you don't want to pre-plan, then you can always turn of the design history.

For you second example I am not sure why you use derive instead of insert.

But, again, if you can share your design(s) and maybe create a screencast, maybe we can find a better workflow.