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hello friends welcome to free CAD tutorial and in this tutorial we will
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learn how to create copy of a part in free CAD and how to use it in a part
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page link in a video description so here is a control block and now we will see
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how we can create exact copy of this control block so for this this is made
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in a part design as you can see the features here's my pad pocket datum
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plane if I wanted to create its copy then I have to switch to the part workbench
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and in part workbench select the body and go to the part and here click on
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create a simple copy so a copy has been created here as you can see here the
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body 001 I will click on it and click on the transform then I will get my x y and z axis then I can simply move it so we have the exact copy here of our part now
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I press the spacebar and hide it now if I click on my body if I go to the create
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a copy then here the other three form as well create a transform copy create
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shape element copy or refine shape so if I go with a create a transform copy
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then I can create one more copy here and go to the transform
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and then on this two and there is a one is a refine shape so this is how we can create
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a copy but one thing you should aware about this is this is the non parametric the copy
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you create is non parametric because here we have a created a copy body001 but we cannot
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see any feature inside of this and the other downside is that if if we make any
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changes to our parent part it won't be reflect on our child part so if I go
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here and if I edit my cut depth up to face instead if I say the dimension 5 mm so you can see that this is our parent body where I have
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changed my depth from up to face to the 5 mm but it is not reflecting here this
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means that the copy we create here is a non parametric now if I press the
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control Z so what is the benefit of this body created copy so after my study I
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have found that the main use of this body is that if you want to make any
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changes to your parent part but you want to keep open your reference part here
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for example if I wanted to model any feature on my part whether I am not sure
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that that feature will fail or succeed so in this case I have my reference part
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is there and I can revert back my shape to my previous one so this reference is
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just for complex modeling if you are making any model which is very complex
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and you are not sure that the features or in shape which you are going to add up
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will succeed or not so that is the only use I have saw with my study of this
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created copy else it is a non parametric so there is a no any use of this apart
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from if you are modeling any complex shape and other benefit is that you can create a multiple copies feature by features and you can export it into the different format of like STL or step
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okay so this is the useful if you are not to create a different version of
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your parent part for example I wanted to make a three variant of my part so I
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will go here in the body and I will go to the part and create a copy so one more
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copy has been created here and I will go to the transform and I want to move it
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so main benefit I found is that you can save the different variations for
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example if you wanted to on one part if you are not if you want a hole and other
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part you do not want to hole and in a second part you want two holes or any
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feature so you can save all these three configurations in a single file so you
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do not have to separately store the different version of your part in a
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different file like a step or a stl so this is how you can create a copy of your
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part inside the free cat but it should be non parametric keep in mind that else
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it is a very good feature of a free cat and this is all about this sessions how
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to create a copy of your part in free cat
