3d modeling (freecad) how to reference features between bodies of the part design workbench

That works but again copied sketch doesn’t track position of source sketch, although it tracks geometry changes which is better than independent copy, I suppose.
In my mind cross reference copy should do what I want. So if I have body with a shape A and there is a sketch S on one of it’s faces, if I create new empty body, set it as active, do pad operation while having S selected, choose to make cross-reference copy my expectation is that it will create new shape B in second body. Instead it creates shape A+B. And cross-reference copy is the only thing so far that I found that tracks both initial sketch geometry as well as it’s position.
Oh well.

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