Copying & Pasting Features?
Copying & Pasting Features?
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Hi Folks,
I've got a model of a casting that I'm bringing into my company's BOM system. For reasons specific to our company's purchasing system, we don't use configurations to refer to the "as-cast" and "as-machined" state. The process here is to build the cast model complete with machining allowances, and then to insert this part into a new model and cut away the material to be machined (so that the as-cast and as-machined have unique part numbers).
I have a casting model that happens to have the machining features in the same model. When I created it I was not fully up to speed on the workings of the purchasing system (I'm fairly new here).
What I'd like to do is to somehow maintain these machining features by "copy-pasting" them into the new model. All of the machining features reference a few critical sketches and planes. I'd like to somehow "paste" these features into my new model, and specify the new planes and sketches that the features should look to for their references. In my pro/e days, I used to be able to do this using "Paste Special/Advanced Reference Configuration" tools.
Is there something similar in Solidworks?
Thanks in advance!
I've got a model of a casting that I'm bringing into my company's BOM system. For reasons specific to our company's purchasing system, we don't use configurations to refer to the "as-cast" and "as-machined" state. The process here is to build the cast model complete with machining allowances, and then to insert this part into a new model and cut away the material to be machined (so that the as-cast and as-machined have unique part numbers).
I have a casting model that happens to have the machining features in the same model. When I created it I was not fully up to speed on the workings of the purchasing system (I'm fairly new here).
What I'd like to do is to somehow maintain these machining features by "copy-pasting" them into the new model. All of the machining features reference a few critical sketches and planes. I'd like to somehow "paste" these features into my new model, and specify the new planes and sketches that the features should look to for their references. In my pro/e days, I used to be able to do this using "Paste Special/Advanced Reference Configuration" tools.
Is there something similar in Solidworks?
Thanks in advance!






RE: Copying & Pasting Features?
RE: Copying & Pasting Features?
Chances are I'll have to re-do the features for now (to meet my current deadline), but knowing how to copy-paste groups of feature from old reference sets to new reference sets would be great in the future.
RE: Copying & Pasting Features?
RE: Copying & Pasting Features?
Do a SolidWorks help search for "library feature." That will point you in the right direction.
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Pretty good with SolidWorks
RE: Copying & Pasting Features?
Use "derived part" for your as-machined.
Best regards,
Alex
RE: Copying & Pasting Features?
Also, regarding the "library feature" once you add it to the derived part, you can dissolve it, so it will look like all of the features were just added properly.
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Pretty good with SolidWorks
RE: Copying & Pasting Features?
That's just the sort of trick I was looking for!
RE: Copying & Pasting Features?