Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts Tutorials
Drawing in Modelspace / Using COPY & PASTE
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Up until now we've used the AutoCAD Copy Command, known as Copy Selection. That's this one here, it's on the Modify Panel on the Home tab. However, you can utilize the Windows Clipboard as well. You can use Copy and Paste in a way that would use Copy and Paste in, for example, Microsoft Word. So, let's have a look at that now. Let's have a look at how we utilize Copy and Paste. You'll notice here I've zoomed in slightly on this particular drawing. We've got the table there, the octagonal table that we created earlier. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to utilize the Copy Command, but I'm going to use a slight twist on it called Copy with Base Point. If I click here, like so, and then right-click on the mouse and go to the Shortcut Menu you can see I've got Copy with Base Point. If I click there, AutoCAD now prompts me for a Base Point. Now I can use a grip, I can use a known Object Snap. What I can do now, you'll notice on the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen there, I've got OTRACK switched on. So, I'm going to use this Midpoint here and hover over it; this Midpoint here and hover over it, and as I track downwards using my Polar Tracking, there's my Object Snap Tracking Point, so I left-click. That is my Base Point. Now, nothing else happens because all I've done there is copy that to the Windows Clipboard using that Base Point. I can now hit Escape and deselect that table. If I now right-click on the mouse again though, what I can do, I'm going to zoom in, in the reception area here of the building a bit more, purely for clarity so that you can see what's going on, and if I right-click now, notice the octagonal table now has disappeared off of the screen because of the zoom. If I right-click and go to Paste, there's my object. It's prompting me to specify an insertion point; notice the Base Point is the center of the table as previously selected, because now what I can do, I can use Object Snap Tracking again, I hover over that Midpoint of the Window there and I now come down here and hover over the Midpoint of that Wall. As I track upwards now, using the Polar Tracking, there's my Object Snap Tracking Point; I left-click, and I've pasted that into position purely using the Windows Copy and Paste Tools. That's very clever, you may say. But there's another trick with the Base Point idea. If I just zoom out slightly and pan across, you'll notice on the right-hand side of the building here, my Window hasn't been placed yet. Now, if I click on this Block here, for this Window, you can see there that there are four grips that I could use if I wanted to. It hasn't been converted into a Block yet, but what I can do here is I can utilize an exact point that I need to use for those objects that make up that Window. We will cover making it into a Block later. I'm just going to copy it now again using the Copy and Paste Tools. So, I select the middle part of the Window, the glazing, and I select the rectangle that forms the outline of the Window Ð those two objects. I right-click now and again I'm going to use Copy with Base Point. I pick a point that I want to use as the Base Point. I'm going to use that bottom right grip there, which is also the bottom right Endpoint of the rectangle; left-click That has been copied now to the Windows Clipboard and has overridden the octagonal table. I hit Escape, I right-click, but now I can paste as a Block. I paste it as a Block using the point there, the Base Point; that is now a Block. It's an Anonymous Block, but what I can do there, I can edit that Block as a Block if I need to.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts |
| Author: | Shaun Bryant |
| SKU: | 34013 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-56-4 |
| Release Date: | 2009-07-03 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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