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RERob Edwards27/09/2016

This has got me all mixed up, I thought it would be well easy, but I've tried everything..

All I want to do is copy a part and rename it so that it becomes its own part, but have all the references intact (ie An exact duplicate).  Ive tried every combination of Save As, CTRL-drag, pack and go, etc... I can think of but I can't get it to work.

When I List the External References for the copied part, some of the features are in context (the equations features)

but the sketch and plane relations are out of context

What may have complicated things is originally this was a virtual part, I saved it out as part of my trials thinking that might help.  I'm a little worried that I've trashed my assembly.

The other point to note is that the references are all to another part within the assembly (Setup), not the assembly itself which Im just using as an empty container. 

If it was just this part I know I could break the references and then weave them in again, but I am hoping to use this part to make *many* more parts that all share these references.

Please tell me Im just being dumb