Copying and Pasting Objects

You can select objects to copy them then paste this selection to the location of your choice. Application workbenches offer a variety of specific copying and pasting scenarios.

Before you begin:
  • Contextual features such as fillets or extracts cannot be pasted if their parent element (edge, face, etc.) has not been previously selected.
  • You cannot copy then paste an object from one session to another.

  1. Select the object you want to copy.

  2. Click Copy in the Standard toolbar.

    This places what you copy in the clipboard.

    Tip: To copy an object, you can also:
    • Select Edit > Copy
    • Press Ctrl+C
    • Right-click then select Copy
    • In the geometry area or the specification tree, press and hold down the Ctrl key and drag the selection.

  3. Click Paste in the Standard toolbar.

    Tip: To paste an object, you can also:
    • Select Edit > Paste
    • Press Ctrl+V
    • Right-click then select Paste
    • In the geometry area or the specification tree, drop what you are dragging (see above).

The object is pasted.

Note: Note that when pasting several kinds of features simultaneously, these features are pasted with the first paste format available in the Pasting Objects as Special list, provided that each of the pasted features accepts this format.