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Explorer
I appreciate you taking the time to reply, however your responding tool action is incorrect for the result I was inquiring about.

In fabrication vs drawings the seams are welds, this means our sheet thickness is the outer dim minus the material thickness of intersecting sheets. That is what the export face is good for, taking the inside face of a box wall(for example) for the dxf to go to laser...and it needs to be able to create a new sheet, in a new file, based on that face.
I don't need the new part from face to be a part of the original file, I need it as an individual part.

Derive doesn't create a new part based on the face we choose therefor isn't accomplishing the task I have addressed.
This is going to be applicable to all sheet metal fabricators, like us who make things like hoppers, bins , etc.


We, like many fabricators are not the original designers, we take stamped/engineered models and drawings to then make the actual parts.
IF i was the engineer than yes derive would be good for my work flow to make the model that is submitted for fabrication, however this is not overly common outside suppliers.
I have only been doing this for 23 years so I'm sure there are plenty of examples for all kinds of use cases, however for us, for this need, "derive component," isn't it.

Again I appreciate you taking the time to respond.