Copying and Pasting Elements

This task will show you how to copy and paste drafting elements.

1. Select the element you want to cut or copy.

2. To copy, you can either:

click the Copy icon

select the Edit>Copy command

select the Copy command in the contextual menu

This places what you copy in the clipboard.

3. To paste, you can either:

click the Paste icon

select the Edit>Paste command

select the Paste command in the contextual menu.

Copy/Paste in a Drawing

Drafting elements cannot be pasted to a part or to a sketch. They can only be pasted within a drawing.
If you delete an element after copying it, you will not be able to paste it anymore.
When copying and pasting views, positioning links between the views (i.e. links which exist between a parent view and its child view, for example) will not be kept. The only way you can keep positioning links between views is by copying and pasting the sheet.
Unlike usual views, detail views cannot be copied to a part.
Views containing 2D components can be copied to a 3D shape, but the resulting view will not contain these 2D components (which are specific to a Drafting context). If you want to copy the equivalent 2D component to the 3D shape, you need to explode it first.
When copying and pasting a text, two things may happen depending on whether you changed the feature name of the text (Edit> Properties > Feature Properties tab):
- If you did not change the feature name, and copy a text whose feature name is Text.1, for example, then the feature name of the copy will be Text.2 (then Text.3, etc. if you make several copies).
- If you did change the feature name, and copy a text whose customized feature name is Custom Text, for example, then the feature name of the copy (or copies) will remain Custom Text.
In case you copy and paste a view axis, infinite lines are displayed in your view. Those lines are designed to keep constraints on the axis that were created in the first view.

You cannot copy and paste not-up-to-date dimensions (displayed in fuchsia by default or according to the color defined for Not-up-to-date dimensions in the Types and colors of dimensions dialog box available via Tools> Options> Mechanical Design> Drafting> Dimension tab, Analysis Display Mode area, Types and colors... button).
When pasting elements from a drawing to another drawing which uses a different standard: some elements (such as dimensions) may not be supported by this standard. In this case, such non-supported elements will not be created.

A view copied from Drafting, then pasted to a Part, becomes a sketch.

If a 3D plane is selected before pasting the view, the sketch follows the 3D plane.
If no 3D plane is selected before pasting the view, the sketch follows the plane of the copied view.