Exploding a module file

[Anonymous]

I have typical details that I have in my viewsets and ocassionaly I would like to modify them within those view sets as opposed to modifying the original file. Can a module be exploded or the link broken, or how can this be done?

Thanks,
Jim

[Anonymous]

Go to:
File -> Modules and X-Refs -> Hotlink Manager

Then, in the window that comes up, select the module you want to explode/break and click 'Break Link'...

[TomWaltz]

Select the Module, then click File > Modules and XRefs > Module Settings....

You will see a button to break the hotlink. This will break the link and keep the elements of the module grouped together.

[Anonymous]

If you have just small part of your plan, than you can use teckturepiece(?) .

Documentation/extra/teckturepiece

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys.

Jim

[Thomas Holm]

I prefer this way, as I often want to re-use the link:
Select and copy the module's content. Paste it. Undo. Redo. (this will make all of it selected). Group.

Turn off the original module's master layer to hide the original.

Then Suspend groups, and start editing the copy.

This way, you can always re-activate the originally placed module should you want it, without going through the trouble of re-placing it again and have to reapply any transformations (movement, rotation etc) that you had done.

[Anonymous]

Good idea Tom.

[Anonymous]

Thomas wrote:
I prefer this way, as I often want to re-use the link:
Select and copy the module's content. Paste it. Undo. Redo. (this will make all of it selected). Group.

Turn off the original module's master layer to hide the original.

Then Suspend groups, and start editing the copy.

This way, you can always re-activate the originally placed module should you want it, without going through the trouble of re-placing it again and have to reapply any transformations (movement, rotation etc) that you had done.

This is very good stuff. I am already thinking of ways to add this to my module madness.

[Thomas Holm]

Matthew wrote:
This is very good stuff. I am already thinking of ways to add this to my module madness.

Thanks! - They're already coming to take me away, ha-ha!