Using the Paste Special... Command

This task shows you how to use the Paste Special... command in the Generative Sheetmetal workbench.

This implies the understanding of the type of features you can paste using this command as well as the various formats available for pasting these features.

Open the PasteSpecial.CATPart document.

Select PartBody in the specification tree.
Right-click the PartBody in the specification tree and select Copy or use Edit > Copy from the menu bar.

Select Edit > Paste Special....
The Paste Special dialog box is displayed.

Paste As Result All Views: the Sheetmetal object is copied as a solid with both folded and unfolded views. The option is only applicable to solid Sheetmetal features.

Paste As Result with Link All Views: the Sheetmetal object is copied as a solid with both folded and unfolded views and with a link to the original object. This means that whenever the original object is modified, the solid is updated accordingly.

Select As Result All Views and click OK.A copy of your Sheetmetal part is generated.

You can generate a drawing of the copied Sheetmetal part:

You can work directly on the copy of the Sheetmetal part generated:

Only the last two options of the Paste Special dialog box are explained here. For more information of the other options, see CATIA Infrastructure User's Guide: Basic Tasks: Manipulating Objects: Using the Paste Special... Command.

The Paste Special... command lets you add Sheetmetal features on a resulting part.

You can generate drawing views from the resulting part with the technical data of the original.

You can use the part for machining with technological data.

Sheetmetal solid thickness and Sheetmetal parameters thickness have to be equal. If not, an error message appears.
Unfolded curves are not copied when using the following options of the Paste Special... command:
- As Result With Link
- As Result With Link Flat mode
- As Result All Views
- As Result With Link All Views