About Reusing Your Design

This topic provides you different ways of reusing your design.

The following are discussed:

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About Optimizing Part Design Performance

Copy and Paste

Copy and Paste provide a quick way of reusing simple features or bodies. These commands are to be used when you need to rework one specification or no specifications at all.

For more information, see Cutting, Copying and Pasting.

Cut and Paste

Cut and Paste provide a quick way of reusing simple features or bodies. These commands are to be used when you need to rework one specification or no specifications at all.

Drag and Drop

The drag and drop mechanism provides a quick way of copying simple features or bodies at different locations.

Paste Special

The Paste Special capability reuses bodies with or without their specifications.

  • Paste as Result with Link

    If this option is used, only the geometry is copied, not the specifications. Pasted bodies reflect the changes to the initial bodies. This command is mostly used in a multi-model environment.

  • As specified in Part Document If this option is used, bodies are pasted as well as their design specifications. The capability is the same as the commonly used Copy and Paste command.

Pattern

The following three commands let you pattern features according to your needs:

They all create several identical features from one feature or more or even from bodies, and simultaneously positions them on an part.

You position instances with respect to a rectangular or circular grid, or using sketched points.

Power Copy

Power Copy creates a set of features (geometric elements, formulas, constraints and so on) that are grouped to be used in a different context. You can completely redefine these entities when you paste them. As it captures the design intent and know-how of the designer, it enables greater reusability and efficiency. We recommend you to use this command for bodies, features, sketches and design tables that require new specifications.

To benefit from the best level of performance in the long term, use this capability to enrich your feature catalogs.

For more information, see Using Power Copies.

User Feature

User Feature creates hybrid features, intended to be instantiated later on. For more information, see 3D Templates Capture: Creating and Working with User Features Creating and Working with User Features.