What is the Best Practice? Master Layouts for Inserts

[mnoreke]

Hello,

I am working on a project where the frame is constant, but the inserts can change. I am therefore wondering what the best practice is to modify the master.

I have attached a picture to provide an idea of what I need for you.

In this example I have a plate that I want to remove material from based upon the card that will be supported on it. I have imported the master into the project, and have tried to do an extrude with a cut, which doesn't work. I have also tried making a copy of the body from the imported component, but that just provides a strange item in the timeline and no body I can cut.

I want to avoid having to re-extrude the entire part as some of them will have quite complex shapes with many steps, and having the ability to just cut openings where needed is much preferred.

Thanks in advance!

[davebYYPCU]

No browser, no timeline, no dialogue box, 

you have 3 profiles selected, but you say Extrude Cut does not work, 

best guess it is a linked component (it being imported), and you can’t edit them, until the link is broken.

Derive your master file to this file, you should be able to do as desired.

Might help....