Boolean but keep tool body

[chrisb]

Could be an error or some kind of a misunderstanding; e.g. you should not use a PartDesign feature in a Part boolean. So it would be interesting to see the reference.

[Cekuhnen]

No worries

[MisterHW]

In Part workbench the components of booleans are kept as separate objects, they are just made invisible.
In PartDesign, booleans are used rarely, because the features themselves always include a union or a cut. So there you may change the modeling.

If you need the original object in a different place you can use a Clone from Draft workbench. It inherits the shape but can be moved.

So this is the preferred method in PartDesign?

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PartDesign_Clone->

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