Paste Special

Opens a window with scaling and rotation options that can be applied to copied objects before they are pasted. This provides a preview image that you can manipulate using the Paste Special window.
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Current drawing scale: read-only. This is the scale of your current drawing, the drawing you are pasting the objects to.

Image scale: The scale you want applied to the copied objects, the scale is applied immediately when you press Tab or left-click (Locate).

Objects not affected by Image scale: The sizes of labels , piecemarks , section sizes , pointer arrowheads , dimension terminals and workpoint symbols are independent of the image scale. The sizes of labels and dimension labels can be changed using Scale labels or on their edit windows.

Tip: You may want to make the Image scale match the Current drawing scale.

Scale labels: or . This applies only if you changed the Image scale. The scale is immediately applied to the copied objects when you press Tab.

If this box is checked, the labels and dimension labels on the copied objects are scaled per the Image scale. The label Font size and dimension label Font size reported on the pasted objects' edit windows will be changed in correlation with the new scale.

If the box is not checked, the labels on the copied objects remain at the original scale.

Rotation: Any positive or negative angle from -360 to 360 degrees. The rotation is applied to the copied objects immediately when you press Tab.

A positive number rotates the copied objects counterclockwise that number of degrees.

A negative (-) number rotates the copied objects clockwise that number of degrees.

Mirror image: or .

If this box is checked, the copied objects are a mirror image of themself.

If the box is not checked, the copied objects are not mirrored.

Remember these values for next invocation: or . This affects whether or not the settings on this window are remembered the next time you use Paste Special during the current session of Drawing Editor.

If this box is checked and you press OK or Apply, all settings on this window will be remembered when the window opens again for the next Paste Special operation.

If the box is not checked and you presspress OK or Apply, the default settings will be set when it is opened the next time.

Reset reverts the settings on the Paste Special window back to the settings when the Paste Special window is opened.

Default settings: Image scale matches the Image scale. Rotation is set to 0. Mirror image and Remember these values are unchecked.

OK (or the Enter key) closes this window but does not end the operation. The preview remains on screen, and Locate - Pan - Return mouse remain active.

Left-click ( Locate ) adds the copied items.

Right-click ( Return ) ends this operation.

1 .Use Copy, Cut, Copy with Reference Point, or Cut with Reference Point before you can perform this operation.

2. Click the Paste Special icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be found on the Drafting page > Clipboard section.

Alternative: Invoke Paste Special using the context menu (right-click) and selecting Special > Paste Special.

3. The status line prompts you to place the reference point, drag the mouse pointer to the desired location of the copied objects and left-click (Locate).

Alternative: Press Esc or right-click (Return) to the end the command at any time.

Tip: At any time while this command is active, you can set the Scale, Rotation, and if you want the objects mirrored as shown in the General Overview tab.

4. The command stays active as you can add multiple of the copied objects. To end the command, press Esc or right-click (Return).

  • Any object pasted using this tool can be removed by using Undo .
  • You can keep this window open when you left-click ( Locate ) the copied objects, or you can first press OK.
  • To copy graphic objects for Paste Special :