Save copy as not working, component is not the same

[tombergisch]

Hi, 

I have a design with a lot of components and subcomponents. I want to save a component with subcomponents to a new file so i can fiddle with it there without messing up my entire timeline. I want to 3d print part of the design and now that i have the dimension correct i want to combine all the subcomponents into one single body so i can get it ready for 3d printing.

When i save a copy as, the copy is not the same. Components are shifting, pieces are missing. I dont understand this at all. Its a simple save a copy as, and the saved copy is different. 

Hope someone can help me out. 

Greetings Tom 

[ryan.bales]

I'm reasonably sure its because there are joints or capture positions that are lost when save copy-as is used. Can you export that component as an F3D? 

[tombergisch]

Hi, 

i did use capture positions but always made sure to capture the current position. If i export it, the same error occurs. The fix for now is to just copy the entire file and thrash that timeline, so i can keep a vanilla file as backup.

[eduard.kieserCH5R3]

I have a sketch that depends on user parameters and a bunch of components that were made from that sketch. When I try to saveCopyAs from that file, the user parameters that are used in the sketch are not copied, the sketch is messed up and also the resulting part. See the minimal example attached. If you try to stave a copy of "Front Left", from the attached file it fails (at least for me).

[johnAMKDR]

I have a similar problem, "save a copy as" butchers the part.

At least this isn't marked "Solved"

[jhackney1972]

Could you please attach the file that you are having issues with.  If you do not know how to attach your Fusion 360 model follow these easy steps. Open the model in Fusion 360, select the File menu, then Export and save as a F3D or F3Z file to your hard drive. Then use the Attachments section, of a forum post, to attach it.

[Jase77]

Hi There.

Has there been a fix with this yet? I want to copy a large assembly from one 'Master Model' into it's own model/assembly number. It copies with my complete history timeline but doesn't show anything. No warnings, no error codes at all. This is pretty annoying...

[rozzautodesk]

I too am running into this exact problem.  I have nothing to add, as the issue sounds identical.  I hope a solution for this is found soon.

[cpRVDZE]

Hello. It's almost 4  years now from the initial queston. I'm running into the same problem. Does anyone have a solution yet?

[Phil.E]

Hi, I'm a quality engineer looking into issues like this. Can you share the design with me using a public link? https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=ASM-SHARE-DESIGN

If you don't want to post the link in public, please send me a private message with the link. 

Glad to look into it and thanks in advance for providing an example to test.

[bentwookie]

I ran into this today. I was trying to export a component that had projections from a rotated-via-joint second component. It feels like export takes the operation stack from the selected component, plays it back from zero and exports the result. If other components contain operations that may have altered the transform of the second, projected component, those operations won't be considered. 

If it helps anyone else, my workaround was to temporarily "Do not capture design history" (gear on the timeline) , export my component, undo "Do not capture design history". The exported part doesn't have a timeline, but in my case, I didn't really need one. 

My project: https://a360.co/4h1YXeE

The component I want to export is joiner:1. 

[johnAMKDR]

Wow! That's really messed up.

I isolated joiner:1, exported it to my PC as f3d, and opened that file. I suppose the Fusion people will say that the behavior is by design, but it surely isn't as a user would expect. I mean, the original is 1 body and the exported is 3.

Nice snake by the way.