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How to copy, paste, drag or move "MultiTransform" directly, please help

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How to copy, paste, drag or move "MultiTransform" directly, please help
"MultiTransform.gif" >>> Operation Video
Single operation "LinearPattern", "PolarPattern"...etc
can be directly re-operated

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Re: How to copy, paste, drag or move "MultiTransform" directly, please help

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"LinearPattern" can be directly copied, pasted, dragged, moved
But there is a bad thing it will change the color of the original object
"LinearPattern.gif">>>Operation Video
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Re: How to copy, paste, drag or move "MultiTransform" directly, please help

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What you want to do is not supported at the moment I think. And since a PartDesign Body is always a chain of features the requested operations may be quite difficult to implement.

I was not able to follow your animations very well, but you seem to be close to this solution:

Workaround to copy-paste a MultiTransform feature:
  1. Open MultiTransform.FCStd.
  2. Delete MultiTransform001 belonging to Bady001.
  3. Copy MultiTransform belonging to Bady with Ctrl+C. Deselect almost all objects in the "Object selection" dialog. See image.
  4. Create a temporary document and paste the feature there. This will gets rid of the Pocket link.
  5. Copy the feature from that temporary document and paste it in the main document.
  6. Right-click MultiTransform001 in the Tree view, choose "Move object to other body" and select Bady001.
  7. Do the same for LinearPattern001 and PolarPattern001.
  8. Double-click MultiTransform001.
  9. Press the "Add feature" button and select Pocket001 in the Tree view.
  10. Go back to the task panel.
  11. Double-click LinearPattern001 and select "Base X axis" for the Direction. Press OK at the bottom of the task panel.
  12. Double-click PolarPattern001 and select "Base Z axis" for the Axis. Again press OK at the bottom of the task panel.
  13. Press the OK button to finish.
  14. Right-click MultiTransform001 in the Tree view, choose "Set tip".
  15. The pasted feature comes with its own view properties, so Bady001 now has the same color as Bady.
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Re: How to copy, paste, drag or move "MultiTransform" directly, please help

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An alternative solution is to use PartDesign_SubShapeBinders to transfer the hole pattern.
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Re: How to copy, paste, drag or move "MultiTransform" directly, please help

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Roy_043 wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 8:38 pm
  1. Create a temporary document and paste the feature there. This will gets rid of the Pocket link.
I found this not only to get rid of the Pocket link
Most importantly it gets rid of "Bady"
I learned how to get rid of links
I also learned the syntax of "List"
Many thanks Roy

but i have a question
Why "LinearPattern","PolarPattern" can get rid of "Bady" without opening a temporary document?
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Roy_043 wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 9:54 pm An alternative solution is to use PartDesign_SubShapeBinders to transfer the hole pattern.
I have never used SubShapeBinder before
This seems like an interesting feature
I'll study it and test it
Thank you so much for replying to this variety of methods
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Re: How to copy, paste, drag or move "MultiTransform" directly, please help

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xsuper9988 wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:08 pm Why "LinearPattern","PolarPattern" can get rid of "Bady" without opening a temporary document?
I don't know.
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