Maintaining Location Reference during Copy and Paste.
Maintaining Location Reference during Copy and Paste.
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Hello,
I have a engine part in CATIA which is located at some distance from the origin. I make a surface extract of the part (using the create datum element option). I then copy this surface extract and paste it in another CATPart file. It automatically locates itself at the origin in the destination file. I even tried Paste Special with as Result and as Result with Link and also as as Specified in Part Document but in vain. How can I paste it in such a way that it maintains its original position as in the engine ?
I have a engine part in CATIA which is located at some distance from the origin. I make a surface extract of the part (using the create datum element option). I then copy this surface extract and paste it in another CATPart file. It automatically locates itself at the origin in the destination file. I even tried Paste Special with as Result and as Result with Link and also as as Specified in Part Document but in vain. How can I paste it in such a way that it maintains its original position as in the engine ?





RE: Maintaining Location Reference during Copy and Paste.
RE: Maintaining Location Reference during Copy and Paste.
Could you elaborate on the generating a catpart from product ?
RE: Maintaining Location Reference during Copy and Paste.
RE: Maintaining Location Reference during Copy and Paste.
If I understand correctly, you want to be able to extract something from the rest of the model, and have it placed relative to the detail part, as it is located in the assembly, correct?
If so, you can just double click on the part you want to make the reference in. (make it your in-work part) Then, from the assembly, choose the feature that you want to duplicate, and extract, dissasemble, etc. If it's a solid, a dumb representation will be created, along with any specific features that you asked for.
Now, I'm not testing this at the moment, so I'm wandering off into speculation here - but in order for what I've described to work, and if I remember correctly - I believe that you have to set up the following option:
Tools -> Options -> Infrastructure -> Part Infrastructure -> External References -> Use Root Context In Assembly (should be checked, I believe)
Again, not sure of that, but please let me know how it works. On a daily basis, I duplicate parts and features from assembly locations into part workspaces, and this works for me.
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RE: Maintaining Location Reference during Copy and Paste.
Incident Report:
The Part xxxxx is not updated. The result is not safe : Features in xxxxx may be not present or wrong, some
attributes may be lost or wrong. Update xxxxx.
What does this mean ? Is a local update the solution ?
RE: Maintaining Location Reference during Copy and Paste.
Update the product before you generate the CATPart, and you will not see that message.
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