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Copy referenced drawing without making new

Copy referenced drawing without making new

When making a copy of a Drawing this copied Drawing stays linked to the first design. If there were a 'pack and go' idea for copying a design with his drawing, this would save a lot of time. Instead making new drawings again for designs with minor changes from copied previous one.

 

It seems there's is a workaround for this. With a single drawing linked to a single component it seems to be possible to copy the design with his drawing, rename it and use it without the link to the design copied from. 

 

This would be the scenario... Part A with Drawing A you want to copy without making a new drawing from copied Part A. To do this:

(There is the possibility to save a copy of Part A and rename it to Part B. This isn't possible for the drawing made from it)

 

1. Download Drawing A as a Fusion 360 Archive from the A360 hub making sure the latest Part A version is updated.

 

2. Rename this Drawing A.f3z Fusion archive to Drawing B.f3z to clarify the difference.

 

3. Upload Drawing B.f3z tru the Data panel in the Fusion360 app.(it does NOT work uploading to the A360 hub). This way Fusion 360 extracting the Drawing B.f3z archive to a new 'Part A.f3d v1' with a referenced 'Drawing A.f2d v1'. (you won't see the file extensions)

 

4. Rename 'Part A.f3d v1' to 'Part B.f3d v1'

5. Rename 'Drawing A.f2d v1' to 'Drawing B.f2d v1'

 

6. Now you have a new set 'Design with Drawing' without the link to Part A where copied from.

 

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