Who Owns My Body?

[bobus17821]

When I created a body recently and then split it, specifying that I wanted a new body, I wasn't able to find the new body.  After a lot of head scratching and digging around I found that the new body hadn't disappeared but also hadn't gone into the component I was working with.  The body was created by sketching on a face of a body in a component and I expected the body to end up in that component.  Silly me!  Maybe in the long run this is not a big deal.  But is there a way I could have made it go into the right component - i.e. the component I was working on?  Or is there a way to move it there now?  I do not yet want to make it part of the body already in that component (although that is where it will end up eventually).  

Thanks very much,  Bob

[g-andresen]

Hi,

note that you create the bodies inside the active component

günther

[g-andresen]

Hi,

In this screencast, I show how to create a body inside an active component and how to copy it into a component.

günther

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

@bobus17821 - Split Body is one case where the active component is ignored.  As you've found, the newly created body is always created in the owning component of the original body.  This is a case where, whatever we did, half the people would think it is wrong.  In my mind, it does make sense that if you are splitting a body, it should just sit beside the original, so that's why we did it, but I can easily see the other argument - for putting it in the active component, like most other new things.

[bobus17821]

Thanks so much for your reply Jeff.  It is very encouraging to know that product developers not only look at this forum but even contribute.  (Being a noob) I wonder if it would be possible, whenever there is ambiguity as to which component a "New Body" should go to, to display a dialog which allows the user to choose?  

Thanks again,  Bob