Transferring a feature from an Assembly to a component

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Transferring a feature from an Assembly to a component

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OS: Linux Mint 20.3 (XFCE/xfce)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
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For some time now I've been working on a model of a roundhouse (snapshot below). So far I modeled parts through stall 14 (stalls are numbered 1 on the lower left through 14 on the upper right. The completed model will be 27 stalls.)
RoundHouse.png
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I've been assembling the many components using the Assembly4 workbench, which has worked well. You will note an interior dividing wall between stalls 7 and 8. Note also the short four-window walls that run around the middle intersect the dividing wall. Below is a snapshot of the area I'm referring to.
MezannineWallAtInteriorWall.png
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I would like to use FreeCAD to tell me exactly where in the dividing wall I need to punch a hole to insert the ends of the four-window walls. I've found I can use the Part-Section tool to establish a section at the intersection of one of the four-window walls and the dividing wall in the Assembly file, but I don't see any way to get that info back into the file that contains the model for the dividing wall.

So, is there a way to transfer that section info back to the model file for one of the components of an assembly? Alternatively, is there some other way I can extract this information and transfer it back to the dividing wall model file?

As a last resort, I can always go back to the individual model files, do the math and figure out where the hole should go, but there's a lot of room for error there and this just seems like a natural extension of the Assembly workbench.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
Bill Lugg
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