Reusing Your Product Structure

Capabilities

Purposes

Copy and Paste Provides a quick way of reusing the product structure between different assemblies or within an assembly. This command is to be used when you need to rework one specification or no specifications at all.

Cut and Paste

Provides a quick way of reusing the product structure. This command is to be used when you need to rework one specification or no specifications at all.
Drag and Drop Provides a quick way of copying the product structure at different locations.
Paste Special Makes a Copy of an Instance independently (or not) from the Source that is to say using the following formats: Paste As Specified in Product Structure and Paste Break Link.
This format enables to duplicate the Source Instance keeping the link to the Source Reference. A new Instance of the Source is created and it has the same Reference as the Source.
This format leads to the duplication of the Source Instance and its Reference. The Reference of the New Instance is the Copy of the Reference. The Source and the Copy are separated, that is to say if you modify the Source, there will be not impacts on the new Instance (Copy). The Source Instance and its Reference are duplicated.