Hey Les, I thought I saw something a few days ago that said something like “Apply operation to all parts” but I was kinda half paying attention because I was in a hurry. Is that somewhere? because I cant find it now. Or did I dream it?
No there isn’t an ‘apply operation to all parts’ option. However there is now a ‘combine all parts’ function in the part tree. It combines all parts into one and does it’s best to merge any current operations on those parts. If you have two parts with different operations on the same layer, a new layer will be created for one of the operations. If the operations are identical the layers are merged.
I must have dreamed it then lol. I did notice the combine all parts into one, that is pretty nice sometimes.
What would you think about adding an option to apply operation to all parts? It would be a massive time saver when you run the same operations on all parts and you have a lot of parts on a sheet. I used to find it frustrating that the program is set up as part based instead of sheet based, but I do find myself using different operations on different parts very frequently. Now I hate I was ever frustrated with that. But I do think it would be very nice to be able to quickly apply an operation to all parts, or even better select which parts to apply the operation to. What are your thoughts?
The problem is that as well as the usual settings, operations include part specific information such as start points, tabs etc.
Obviously the start points on one part bear no relation to the start points on another part.
But you can copy/paste an operation from one part to another.
The ‘copy all’ from right click in operations works really well, just add a new part then ctrl+v on operations
Ah you beat me to it 
I’m wondering how copy all operations would differ from apply to all parts. Would think the part specific specs would just not be applied in either case.
The problem is that as well as the usual settings, operations include part specific information such as start points, tabs etc.
Obviously the start points on one part bear no relation to the start points on another part.
But you can copy/paste an operation from one part to another.
I just assumed “copy to all parts” would work just like selecting copy all and pasting, I just wouldn’t have to click on each part and manually paste each one. Its not uncommon for me to have 50+ parts on a single nest/sheet. The copy and paste method seems to work perfectly well, why wouldn’t this method work?
For the life of me, I cannot find a combine all parts command anywhere. I’ve right clicked all over the place, I’m not seeing it. I have a DXF with many pieces, imports all as one part. I need to break it up to manually move items, then I need to combine the parts back to use one operation since it seems my layers are not carrying over between all parts… Where in the heck is the combine all parts function? I’m on 7.0.21 stable, do I need to use development version?
@brownfox , correct, selection ‘Combine all parts into one’ is new function since 7.0.21, its in v7.1.40 for sure, maybe in 7.1.35. btw- you get to v7.1.40 automatically after installing v7.1.35.
Combine parts… is in the right click context menu of Parts window/frame.
Thanks. I’ve always just run the stable version. I’ll either download the dev or do my usual manual nesting in my svg program.