I’m tryng to bring a model of a box into another model.
When you press and hold on a model, copy is available, but when you open the model destination, there doesn’t seem to be a paste feature.
How do you do this?
This is for 3D printing. Where I have a base model, and then
modify this base, with various components for different projects.
Hope this makes sense, thanks.
Hi Stone,
You’ll need to export and import.
As long as you don’t need Sketches, History or Visualization, the easiest way is to isolate the box then export it in x_t format. Finally import into the other project.
If you do need the Sketches, History or Visualization, then you’ll need to export in shapr format. That will export everything regardless of being hidden or isolated.
Okay,
Export. I’ll just try shapr3d format.
I’m just discovering that you cannot delete all the
sketches.
I have a long list of sketches, from rounding corners,
then removing the rounding for streching, etc.
I ended up just puting them in a folder.
I that all you can do?
Anyway, question answered nicely thanks.
I wonder what copy, when you press and hold on a model,
is for.
Thanks Bob
If you are in a project view, the press and hold menu “copy” is so you can put a copy into another project folder.
.shapr format is great to use. My comment about x_t is more when you want to export a few bodies from a large project. (I was just doing that and my brain was still there 
.It can get “messy” if you have to delete many sketches and bodies to get what you are after in your exported file.
Deleting sketches will also delete all bodies made with those sketches. So putting sketches into a folder is a good way to get them out of sight without deleting them.
I imported my box, OK.
It came along with 2 sketches.
Will puting all sketches in the same folder make trouble,
if I want to modify the imported model?
I found myself filling some holes, etc…
then having to union everything back together again.
The main body was scrolled off, and it was annoying.
Should each model have it’s own sketches folder?
Also, is there any way to integrate all the sketches,
then explode them if needed?
I still have some sketchup bong water in my head.
Shapr3d is so much better though.
…thanks
No. It is really up to you. I’m sure some people keep everything very well organized and have separate folder for each model, but it isn’t necessary.
The imported items should be in the “same place” as when you exported them. They will not automatically reset to the origin.
Not sure what you mean. If you want sketches that are on parallel planes “merged” you can use the project tool but then to put them back, it could be difficult. I usually just put sketches into a folder (I name it “sketches”) and then hide the folder. Sometimes, especially if really important sketch, I will rename it.