Paste Special ( Drawing Editor )
Tool summary :
Also see :
- Drawing Editor (where Paste Special is a tool)
- Paste (does not have Paste Special options for scaling & rotation)
- Paste at Original Location (does not have Paste Special location option)
- Paste to Several (for pasting in multiple drawings of the same type)
- Add Standard Detail (for pasting of archived copies of drawings)
- Undo (undoes a Paste Special )
- Save Standard Detail followed by Add Standard Detail is a better alternative to Copy & Paste Special if you want to save a standard image to file for repeated placement in multiple drawings and in different Jobs.
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Step-by-step instructions :
The following instructions assume that you are using a 3-button mouse.
1a : (optional) : Before you Copy or etc., check the box for " Disallow recalculation " on each extension dimension if you want to retain the " Label text " reported for those extension dimensions.
1b : You need to save an image to your cut/copy clipboard using Copy or Cut or Copy with Reference Point or Cut with Reference Point in your current drawing or in another drawing before you can perform this operation.
1c : On the layer selection tool , select the drawing layer that you want to paste to.
2 . Invoke Paste Special using any one (1) of the following methods:
Method 1 : Click the Paste Special icon. The icon can be taken from the group named ' Edit ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).
Method 2 : If " Drawing Editor layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose Edit > Paste Special .
Method 3, 4 or 5 : Paste Special can also be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the ' Lightning ' layout style, configuration of the interface is done using Customize Interface .
Method 6 : In Select Items mode, right-click ( Menu ) and choose Special > Paste Special on the context menu .
3 . A preview image of the contents of your cut/copy clipboard appears on screen along with the Paste Special window. Go to step 4 if you find the preview image acceptable; if you want to adjust the preview image, do step 3a.
3a (optional) : On the Paste Special window, enter the settings that you want applied to the preview image that is shown on screen.
Tip: Use Tab to move forward or Shift + Tab to move backward from one widget to the next (or previous). As you Tab out of " New image scale " or " Rotation " or " Scale labels " or " Mirror image ," your change is automatically applied to the preview image.
4 . Locate - Pan - Return mouse bindings become active along with various Locate options. The image shown on screen is a preview (except for color) of how the image will look when pasted.
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Alternative 1 : Select the Locate option that you want (if it's not selected already), then place your mouse pointer (
) so that the point location target snaps to the on-screen location where you want the preview image to be placed, then left-click ( Locate ). Go to step 5.
Alternative 2 : Right-click ( Return ) to cancel this operation without pasting the image. Do not continue.
5 . The preview image is now on the drawing layer you selected in step 1. The mouse bindings that were active before you invoked Paste Special become active again.
Tip: The image pasted using this procedure can be removed by using Undo .
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- When this window opens, Locate- Pan -Return mouse bindings become active, and a preview image is shown.
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Current drawing scale: read-only . This is the scale of your current drawing, the drawing you are pasting the image to.
Image scale: read-only . This is the scale of the image you are pasting (the clipboard image). If the image was cut or copied from your current drawing, then its scale is the same as that of your current drawing.
New image scale: The scale you want applied to the preview image. The scale is applied immediately (when you press Tab or " Apply "). To locate the preview image, left-click ( Locate ) as described in step 4 .
(Base 12) means imperial dimensioning is being used. Enter the number of inches on your current drawing that you want to represent 1 foot in the shop or construction site.
(Base 10) means metric dimensioning is being used. Enter the number of millimeters on your current drawing that you want to represent 10 mm on the actual materials.
Objects not affected by " New image scale ": The sizes of labels , piecemarks , section sizes , pointer arrowheads , dimension terminals (
) and workpoint symbols are independent of the " New image scale ." The sizes of labels and dimension labels can be changed using "
Scale labels " (below) or on their edit windows. Other objects that are independent of scaling can also be resized using their edit windows.
Tip: You may want to make the " New image scale " match the " Current drawing scale ." Note that if you enter a new scale here, you may optionally choose to " Scale labels ." For more information, see " Drawing scale ."
Scale labels: or 
. This applies only if you changed the " New image scale ." The scale is immediately applied to the preview image (when you press Tab or " Apply "). To locate the preview image, left-click ( Locate ) as described in step 4 .
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If the box is not checked (
Rotation: Any positive or negative (-) angle from 360 to -360 degrees. The rotation is applied to the preview image immediately (when you press Tab or " Apply "). To locate the preview image, left-click ( Locate ) as described in step 4 .
' 0 ' (zero) reverts the preview image to its rotation in its drawing file. In other words, the preview image keeps the rotation it had when it first appeared in step 3 .
A ' positive number ' rotates the preview image counterclockwise that number of degrees.
A ' negative (-) number ' rotates the preview image clockwise that number of degrees.
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If the box is not checked (
Remember these values for next invocation: or . This affects whether or not the settings on this window are remembered the next time you Paste Special during your current session in the Drawing Editor .
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"OK" (or the Enter key) closes this window but does not end the operation. The preview image remains on screen, and Locate - Pan - Return mouse remain active. Step 4 explains how to left-click ( Locate ) the preview image or, alternatively, how to right-click ( Return ) to end this operation.
Defaults for your current Drawing Editor session: If you press " OK " (or " Apply ") and " Remember these values " is checked, all of the current settings on the window become the default settings for the next time that the Paste Special window opens during this session of the Drawing Editor .
Tip: Undo can be used to remove images that you have pasted.
"Cancel" (or the Esc key) closes this window and ends the Paste Special operation.
"Apply" updates the preview image with the current setting for the field that you are in (" New image scale " or " Rotation " or etc.) without your having to Tab out of that field.
Defaults for your current Drawing Editor session: If you press " Apply " (or " OK ") and " Remember these values " is checked, all of the current settings on the window become the default settings for the next time that the Paste Special window opens during this session of the Drawing Editor .
" Reset " reverts the settings on the Paste Special window back to the basic default settings that apply when Paste Special is first invoked during a new session in the Drawing Editor .
Basic default settings: " New image scale " is made to match the " Image scale ." " Rotation " is set to ' 0 '. " Mirror image " and " Remember these values " are unchecked.