{"id":7171,"date":"2014-07-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Blog\/ST7-Duplicate-Components\/ba-p\/36854"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:33:32","slug":"st7-duplicate-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/st7-duplicate-components\/","title":{"rendered":"ST7: Duplicate Components"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>There&#8217;s a lot of assembly functionality in ST7 that has been kind of skipped over, or hasn&#8217;t had the attention it might deserve. There&#8217;s a new tool called Duplicate Components that is super powerful, but I haven&#8217;t seen a lot of coverage of it yet.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>At Solid Edge University, it was demonstrated using a bulldozer engine with several engine mounts in various positions that you couldn&#8217;t place with a pattern. A few components had to be attached to the mounts at each point. So they were manually assembled on the first mount, and then the Duplicate Components tool was used to &#8220;pattern&#8221; the parts to all the other locations. Saves a ton of time and mates.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-center video-embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PSK2YJi1q7M\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" title=\"Video\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of assembly functionality in ST7 that has been kind of skipped over, or hasn&#8217;t had the attention it might deserve. There&#8217;s a new tool called Duplicate Components that is super powerful,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,183],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-product-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7172,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions\/7172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}