Copy with Mates

[aymeric_leverre]

Just like solidworks... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToiXLdm7ncs
I'm not talking about iMates, which must be configured in both the male and female part. This is not the case with Copy with Mates, which relies on “simple” assembly mates to enable copying of the part while changing the reference surfaces (or repeating them if they remain on the same plane, for example). 

I don't understand why Inventor doesn't offer this kind of tool, which is, in my opinion, an indispensable productivity tool.

[Anonymous]

Bump!  I just wasted 2 hours because I didn't have this feature...  Hopefully I have SolidWorks at my next job?

[DRoam]

Duplicates:

• copy with constraints
• Copy with Mates
• Dying without a Copy with Mates analogue

[DRoam]

Duplicates:

• copy with constraints
• Copy with Mates
• Dying without a Copy with Mates analogue

[DRoam]

Duplicates:

• copy with constraints
• Copy with Mates
• Dying without a Copy with Mates analogue

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[Anonymous]

Hi,

I would like to have a feature to copy a part/assembly inside an assembly with its mates, and paste it into the same (or an other if possible) assembly while keeping the mates on the copied parts.

Basicly once you "paste" the copied part using the "Copy with mate" feature, a window will open asking you to select the receiving mate. Once you select the mate and click ok, the next mate will appear, until the part is fully mated. The new window can be exactly like when you edit an existing mate that is missing one of its reference, all the settings are already there, but it is only needing the selection of a new reference.

What I described above is just a thought, it can be designed in any way as long as the only thing we have to input is the receiving end of the mate.

That way, we could rapidly copy and place parts with irregular patterns, or with patterns on different planes, orientation, etc.

[Anonymous]

Hi Dom,

Check out this post and the images in the discussion and vote up. I think it would work for what you are describing. The post describes an edit constraint reference table. This would be a huge time saver, and I hope the people at Autodesk will understand how this feature could improve their product and make users happy.

Thanks,

David

[Anonymous]

Hi

Thi feature is very interesting, I use this in solidworks and it's very fast.

Great idea.

[bluebronco69]

Inventor 2014 you could paste (ctrl+v) with the constraint dialog open.

2016 you could not -- the constraint dialog would close, but the part would paste

2018 even worse  -- you cannot paste at all, the constraint dialog just stays open, and nothing happens.

it is really useful to be able to continue to paste parts in as you need to constrain them. for example, the same size bolt in multiple places on an assembly, some of those places you can only see after rotating, if you place all the bolts at once, when you rotate, you might not be able to see them when you can see the feature they belong with...

[bluebronco69]

thanks for the votes. keep them coming.

i was wrong about the 2018 behavior. it acts the same as 2016, but still would be nice to paste with the constraint dialog open..

[Rory_M]

+1 voted.

This is one "undocumented feature" that I really miss. Please bring it back.

[bluebronco69]

you guys are awesome, keep the votes coming. i think more people used this feature than they thought, and everyone just put up with the removal of this feature in 2016...

[bluebronco69]

one more bump.

thanks for all the support

[Anonymous]

I'm sure this has been suggested before (I found it back in 2013), but it would be really useful to my workflow to be able to copy and paste a part or sub-assembly within an assembly together with it's constraints. I know this'll place it in the same place, but often I will only have one variable that changes and currently I have to add all 3 constraints back every time - it would be great to be able to just adjust and offset a dimension.

I know if you copy and paste multiple items they come across with any constraints to each other,and I use this to good effect, but you still have to add the main constraints back in.

[Pate.MacKenna]

This loss of this feature coming from SolidWorks was very hard to get over.  "Copy with Constraints" would speed the placement of repeated parts in an assembly immensely, especially when patterns just won't do the trick.

[SEDK1249]

This video explains the Solidworks feature "Copy with Mates" or "Copy with constraints" pretty well This is a very powerful feature Inventor 2021 do still not have this feature Notice that an Inventor's assembly copy & paste, only copy constraints within the selected group, no external constraints copied as the "Copy with Mates" does The same limitation for the "Copy Components" feature, available for >10 years SOLIDWORKS Copy with Mates www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT3GPqMmAWk

[jsanzWP29P]

Hi!

Autodesk is asking for collaboration to improve their products, but from what I read, they are not being valued much.
I have worked with Solidworks and this functionality should be brought into Inventor as soon as possible because it would save us a lot of time in our assemblies as designers.
Please add this functionality.
Thank you.

[krupickaRZCS6]

About a thousand times yes!

[Tayfun_Cetin_FYRPK8J2NTBD]

this is a must. we shouldn't be suffering while trying to copy "bolt+spring washer+flat washer set" to multiple positions in an assembly.

Don't tell me to use patterns, because 9 out of 10 I do not have patterned holes, and I hate Inventor's pattern approach.

Don't tell me to make bolt&washer set an assembly either, it's just not how things work in real life.