Hello,
I have a part in my design library that I would like to be able to drag and drop non-linked copies of into my assembly. The idea is that my library part has undefined dimensions, and when I drop it in I can then define the dimensions to my assembly without changing the original as there will be multiple variations of the same part. I understand there are ways to do this with pack and go and what not but I am looking to do this easily. I am using 2016.
Thanks
Hi Joel,
there are several ways to do this (without claiming that these are all):
You will be asked to save the component to a different location.
Creating a virtual component will break the link to the original part and later on you could save it to your desired location.
You will get different options whether the newly created part will be used as the new reference or not.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards
Frank
SOLIDWORKS Product Definition Team