Make Independent

SOLIDWORKS How To Questions
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Hey,

Question for you who use Solidworks PDM. Are you able to get a new part number with “Make Independent”-action?

As a former Inventor user I find it very annoying that in Solidworks I have to make Save as a Copy, then Replace component. This “Make Independent”-action works similar to Inventor’s “Save and Replace” ( = Saves a copy of component instance and replaces ONLY that component) but with Solidworks PDM it’s completely useless because I’m not getting a new part number, it tries to save the part with the existing name…

Thanks for help in advance :slight_smile:

Yours sincerely,
SolidKeke

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I don’t have PDM, but I think all of this is done outside of PDM unless you have some sort of an auto-part number generation thing.

When you use Make Independent, you can save the new part with whatever name you want to use, including a new part number. If that is being generated automatically, then I’m not sure how you hook that up. It might be a manual transfer of the part number, but how hard can it be (cut and paste). The Save As only puts the existing name in there as a default, because it can’t read your mind, and what else would it put in there?