Paste From ClipBoard

Pastes members that you have copied using Copy To ClipBoard to your current or other SDS2 Jobs.
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1 . Click the Paste From ClipBoard icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be found on the Members page > Add section.

Alternative: Invoke Paste From ClipBoard using the Find Tool by searching the command name and clicking the icon, which is pictured above.

2 . The status line prompts, "Locate a reference point". Locate - Pan - Return mouse bindings become active along with various Locate options. Select a Locate icon and left-click (Locate) a reference point. This is the reference point you located when you copied the member(s) using Copy To ClipBoard.

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

3 . The Rotate Material window opens. Despite the window's name, it is the member that is rotated using this window. Rotating the member(s) is optional. Click OK to paste the member(s) into the model of your current Job.

Note: The Coordinate system is set to Global and cannot be changed. Also note that the global axes that you can rotate the pasted members around originate at the reference point you located when copying the member(s) using Copy To ClipBoard.

Alternative: Press Esc or click Cancel to end the command without pasting the member(s).

  • Paste From ClipBoard lets you paste members into your current Job that were originally copied using Copy To ClipBoard.
  • Such copy-paste operations may be done in Jobs that share the same data directory.
  • The operations may be done at the same work station or different work stations on a shared server, so long as the same data directory is shared and the same user login name is used.
  • The clipboard that is copied to is a temporary Job that is stored in the data directory and is associated with the login name of the user who did the Copy To ClipBoard operation.
  • A clipboard is overwritten each time a user does a Copy To ClipBoard.
  • Multiple clipboards, each associated with a different user, may be saved to the data directory.
  • The clipboard is saved across multiple Modeling sessions so long as the user does not overwrite it by doing another Copy To ClipBoard.
  • Since a clipboard is tied to a person's login name, the same person needs to perform both the Copy To ClipBoard and Paste From ClipBoard operation.
  • When copying members to the clipboard, the original Job's shape file is used. If needed, materials will be copied to the local shape file of the Job that is pasted to.
  • The reference point that you locate when you Copy To ClipBoard should be placed at a location that will permit you to easily rotate the members into place when you later Paste From ClipBoard.
  • If your organization is working on two different Jobs that model the same construction project with members oriented exactly the same with respect to the 0, 0, 0 global coordinate, it might be a good idea to use the global 0, 0, 0 point as your reference point. However, this is a very special situation that would only work on Jobs that are near duplicates of one another.