Hi All 
Is it possible to ābakeā named positions? Iāve got several named positions, and would like to have them all present in the same document - not as positions, but as actual geometry. If I select one of the positions and try to copy/paste it all, I end up with duplicates of all the positions, and it takes forever to delete them by hand. It would be nifty to be able to āBakeā them to separate layers or something similar.
TIA, Jakob
That does sound like a useful thing to be able to do.
Since you mention your current workflow, an other work-around could be to export the objects to the STEP format and to import them again. That way you will maintain layer attributes (*) but not the named position information.
(*) Note that sub-layers round-tripped via the STEP format are named Parent:
:Grandchild.
I.e. the hierarchy is removed and the layers are duplicated but you can use that to your advantage here.
@BrianJ Iāve had the same problem: extra named position duplicates that I didnāt need ā and often they even donāt even work after you move the copy. So, how about his tweak:
Any time you do a copy-and-paste (or editācopy / editāpaste) you get a command line prompt IF there is a Named Position present: Copy Named Position? Yes / No
Thanks for adding that potential workflowā¦ @andy will have to take a look at whatās possible here when he gets to this feature request, Iām not sure how named position data is saved exactly and if the copy command could search for that info prior to copying the selection.
Related to this is something Iāve tried (without success) to achieve in the past: Form a solid from a revolved or swept other solid. One that sticks in my mind was checking clearance for a furniture castor that I needed to shroud as closely as possible. Itās not as easy as it sounds 
Another was the āswept volumeā of a wiper mounted on unequal length parallelogram arms.
In the end, I used an approach similar to the OPās comment and guessed the bits in between.