Separating bones from armature

Support Animation and Rigging
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I’ve been trying to separate bones form an armature(Armature A) so that they form their own armature.(Armature B) It is said that “It is now possible to separate selected bones into a new armature using the hotkey Ctrl Alt P.” (http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/armature-editingposing/)

My problem is that when I do try to separate the bones(either in edit mode or in pose mode) they won’t separate. All I get is the error: “Can only make proxy for reference object or group”(in pose mode) and nothing happens in edit mode. Is there a more specific way to do this or does anyone know of another way?

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Are you sure you’re using the official 2.46 (or later svn version)? If so, have you tried using the menu entry?

Note: the 2.46 RC builds had this feature in varying states of completeness/correct functioning.

Aligorith

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Ah! It seems I did not have the latest one…and now it works! Thanks a mil Aligorith!